- published: 25 Apr 2016
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In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. Derived in Middle English from c. 1340 as "specially prepared or arranged display" it was borrowed from Old French spectacle, itself a reflection of the Latin spectaculum "a show" from spectare "to view, watch" frequentative form of specere "to look at." The word spectacle has also been a term of art in theater dating from the 17th century in English drama.
The term was borrowed from the Roman practice of staging Circuses, in the rather famous philosophy of the Roman elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order due to an inability to solve underlying social and economic problems.
Spectacle operates in two contexts simultaneously. On the one hand, it refers to high culture (drama, movies) performances where the draw for an audience is the impressive visual accomplishment. On the other hand, it refers to low cultural shows operating in a folk environment. These can range from the freak show to folk drama to tablieau and beast-plays. The two worlds have always interacted to a lesser or greater degree, with the folks spectacle often being rewritten into a literary spectacle, whether for humor (e.g. The Mechanicals with their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) or not (e.g. the serious treatment of the folk Everyman).
I've been sick and silenced
forgot I had a heart at all
I know I know I should have known
But it's hard to remember when life is such a short time
But it's hard to remember when time is a long time
And I was told that I would never die or grow old
Or at least that was what they sold me
Weeds are growing in my playground, haven't been there for a long time
and if we are born to fail then just slit your throat
life has to be more than this, at least I hope for more
and if we are born to fail what's the point of living at all?
weeds are growing in my playground, haven't been there for a long time
and if we are born to fail then just slit your throat
and it's hard to remember when life is such a long time
and a long long long time it went exactaly as I planned
and a long long long time it went exactaly as I planned
and a long long time ago it went exactaly as I planned
back then we had no plans, we had no worries
we had no home, nor a resting place
they say you can't be a kid forever and ever
but I beg to differ, but I beg to differ
why would I ever trade my skateboard for your working life?
for you working knife stealing every tace of life
we once slept under upen skies, told stories in the wind