Saturday, August 29, 2009

4th wall



How are we to inhabit 

This space from which the fourth wall is invariably missing, 

As in a stage-set or dollhouse, except by staying as we are, 

In lost profile, facing the stars, with dozens of as yet 

Unrealized projects, and a strict sense 

Of time running out, of evening presenting 

The tactfully folded-over bill? 

 

-John Ashbery, (1977) 

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