Romance Irony and Tom O' Bedlam

William Blake

In William Blake's excellent collection of poems of songs of innocence and experience he mirrors a child's activities in certain events like being annoyed by a flea or getting lost. In innocence the Child believes he understands the word in a fool's idealism, but the experienced one he becomes more jovial once he accepts the inability to understand the mysterious world around him. Even though the individual's curiosity never wanes, but instead accepts the world for what it is and what he may understand. The lost child is found like a Shepard and his sheep (he even specifically mentions the God parallel), but through experience the narrator describes the finding process, the worry of what is out there and what could be. A flea bothers the innocent, why does it mindlessly flap at my ear, but the experienced learns of the treasures of life and wonders of the flea's motives all the same, but without being rooted in annoyance and a desire of escape from the fleas noise. The experience gained are the simple objective truths, and the limitations of said experience, but also the horrors incased within.

Violent Femmes

Violent Femmes' Second Album "Hallowed Ground" Is incredibly good. The whole album reeks of a pure love of genuitity which is mostly dead in modernity. Complete rejection of Poisoned Irony. If you'll excuse a tangent, "Only those capable of extreme violence have the capability of Pacifism." This is because the weak pacifist can only choose the option of pacifism, so yes they act in the same way as the real pacifist they are limited in ability. These people would be violent if they possessed the ability. This is like saying that Water flowing downstream is its ideology. Flowing down is its ONLY option it must flow down. This idea is replicated in speech and writing as well Speaking plainly will always end up as the most pressing and inspiring passage, but without the ability to take speech through every nook, language will always be plain. The simple expression of absolute truth becomes plain and disgusting, generic or cliché. The adjective that describes that this phenomena happens with the most is beautiful mainly because its place in love songs.

(The plain word is love, but that would take to long to explain. I'll still explain that later, but I've noticed it plenty with beautiful. and Love has so many different uses and beautiful has only one, so its use case is exclusively what i am referring to in this.)

Take the song "She doesnt know she's beautiful" it sounds corny and cliché and bad because it is all those things. Whoever made that song isn't capable of making a song with soul and so the simple expression becomes corporate. (i honestly feel terrible for that person because not being to express that in any real way must be devastating, but maybe he doesnt realize that, so idk) If you have someone like Violent Femmes or Jeff Mangum saying beautiful it doesnt do that. Instead it becomes the cornerstone of the album, even when surrounded with lines like "semen stains the mountain tops" and other insanely well written lyrics (this isn't a joke I really believe semen stains the mountain tops is wonderfully written.) The two most iconic lines and really the soul of the album are "I love you Jesus Christ" and What a beautiful face

I have found in this place/ That is circling all 'round the sun/  And when we meet on a cloud/  I'll be laughing out loud/  I'll be laughing with everyone I see/  Can't believe How strange it is to be anything at all

please ignore that being a whole verse, but its so emblematic of the whole thing. With the face being a reflection of Jesus Christ previously mentioned ending with a statement of pure bewilderment by the sheer fact of existence and a joy and curiosity. (Just like William Blake) Those plain and simple statements pierce all the dense language into truth. The Album is soaked in these small moments throughout. Through the opening tragedy, simple religious songs, and free jazz. Without the complete willingness to speak completely frank it loses all meaning it would have with clever mathematic verse (which it still includes) Anyway Its just really fun.

Tom O' Bedlam

I want to make a Romance Plot, but I know that any attempt will fail if its even slightly conventional. I'm fine with leaving trad romances to groypers on twitter. The woman must be highly socially intelligent, an abyss of meaning, and a more interesting character than the male protagonist, with her barely appearing. A single scene must pervasive enough to set an undertone for the rest of the play. Every line must seen as preceding and as a consequence of the initial reaction. The man must be a fountain of passion, wants and desires, unlimited potential without a guiding force. Making him a poet without a Muse is the perfect way to enforce this. I dont know how to end it, but that must wait for it start.