All of the critics agreed. Hans Feckenbruke’s performance piece, “Transcending Irony: post-post-modern capitalism in the Western World, from the top of the Chrysler Building, as seen from the perspective of consumers on the ground,” was a spectacular — if messy — achievement.
“I’ve never seen an artist commit so completely to his work before. He didn’t even flinch as he approached the pavement,” Filmore Snoot told this photographer.
“It’s a shame he wore those tennis shoes, though. It undercut the whole commentary.”
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Bravo! I thought the tennis shoes were a perfect touch, with some added commentary on our socially glib culture, manifested in such phenomena as “Casual Fridays”.
^ really, I took it more as a comment on the publics hero complex and our worship of sports stars as the new heroes. Kind of a ‘we’re all humans inside *splat*’ type of thing, that and the fact that tennis is crap.
You are clearly a deeply disturbed person. I may have to buy and read your book.
Thanks Robert — my new book comes should be available at WorldCon, if you’re going to be there.