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"Elephant, a collection of material produced during the past two years, attempts to create an environment within which the personna of the writer may exist without benefit of a corporeal reality.\r\nIt becomes an environment of memory.\r\nBy definition, the genres of drama and poetry must be presented\r\nto an audience if they are to succeed in their avowed purpose\r\nof communication between creator and audience. It is only the medium of presentation which distinguishes [sic] between the two genres. The drama is presented in the \"live\" medium of the stage, whereas poetry is presented by the \"dead\" or inanimate Gutenberg technology.\r\nIn this particular instance, both genres are presented within the same medium, the thesis. They are therefore similar componants [sic] of a unique environment.\r\nThe evironment [sic] of Elephant, can only be that of memory, as it was written in the past from material rooted in memory, the memory\r\nof the personna and the collective memory of the environment in which he exists. It is not \"now\", it is \"then\"."@en
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