All the King’s Men

(See also Time and
All the King’s Horses.)

LEAR:

Now you better do some thinkin’
    then you’ll find
You got the only daddy
    that’ll walk the line.

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FOOL:

I’ve always been different
    with one foot over the line….
I’ve always been crazy
    but it’s kept me from going insane.

For related material, see

The Line: Notes on Iconology,

and last night’s winner of

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the National Book Award
for nonfiction, i.e.,
“all hard facts, all reality, with
no illusions and no fantasy.”  

A Story That Works

  • “There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
  • there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
    • that minds should really touch, or
    • that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story, or (perhaps the same thing)
    • that there should be a story that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with no illusions and no fantasy;
  • and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, mortal me.”

    — Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“