Comments on: The Wonderful World of Dissocia http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-wonderful-world-of-dissocia/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gettysburg Guy http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-wonderful-world-of-dissocia/comment-page-1/#comment-110682 Gettysburg Guy Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:10:45 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-wonderful-world-of-dissocia/#comment-110682 Sounds like a wonderful show. I sure hope it makes it to Pennsylvania. Sounds like a wonderful show. I sure hope it makes it to Pennsylvania.

]]> By: Jerry Prager http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-wonderful-world-of-dissocia/comment-page-1/#comment-86554 Jerry Prager Thu, 24 May 2007 04:13:22 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-wonderful-world-of-dissocia/#comment-86554 I have often had to deal with family members in dissocia, my mother and brother in particular, and myself by extension. The first act and the second act each carry their own weight, the mania of a life needing to be lived in every obsessed-upon detail, and the life not worth living in the chemical solutions of institutional inhumanity. Humans are associational lifeforms, we thrive on communities of location and communities of interest, but we also dissociate from them in our very individuality, and somehow, in some people, our associational nature begins from a deeply dissociative place, and everything in the universe gets swept up in the vortexes that swirl around our otherness, I and Thou, and you and we, and all in all becomes more than a mind can stand or loved ones can endure. There need to be plays about this, if Dissocia ever swims across the Atlantic and up the St Lawrence and through Lake Ontario and leaps like a mighty fish to spawn above Niagara Falls, north of Lake Erie up the Grand River to play at my door then I shall attend in your name and know myself well advised. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Jerry. This is no ordinary play. I'm sure, sooner or later, it will be coming your way. I have often had to deal with family members in dissocia, my mother and brother in particular, and myself by extension. The first act and the second act each carry their own weight, the mania of a life needing to be lived in every obsessed-upon detail, and the life not worth living in the chemical solutions of institutional inhumanity.
Humans are associational lifeforms, we thrive on communities of location and communities of interest, but we also dissociate from them in our very individuality, and somehow, in some people, our associational nature begins from a deeply dissociative place, and everything in the universe gets swept up in the vortexes that swirl around our otherness, I and Thou, and you and we, and all in all becomes more than a mind can stand or loved ones can endure.

There need to be plays about this, if Dissocia ever swims across the Atlantic and up the St Lawrence and through Lake Ontario and leaps like a mighty fish to spawn above Niagara Falls, north of Lake Erie up the Grand River to play at my door then I shall attend in your name and know myself well advised.

jb says: Hi Jerry. This is no ordinary play. I’m sure, sooner or later, it will be coming your way.

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