Scylla In WWWonderland Canto II

Book One



Canto II
The "Nutcracker" Canto



Tchaikovsky died
So Gelsey could get fried*




*EDITOR'S NOTE

This deceivingly and, if I may say so, devilishly simple canto is, perhaps, the most amazingly complex of this entire Master-Work, and will arguably require extensive editorial elucidation for virtually all readers. We've little time to lose, so let's get started!

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky is undeniably the most popular composer of all time, as beloved by the Power Elite (cf. his shocking and [literally!] ground-breaking use of cannons in his immortal 1812 Overture) as by the chimney-sweep, scullery-maid, and bar-hand.

Unfortunately, Pyotr Ilich committed suicide because of his unrequited love for his own nephew.

(Um, I didn't say this editorial analysis wasn't going to be without its, ah..., "rough" spots.)

Gelsey Kirkland, alternatively, is undeniably the most beloved American ballerina of the Twentieth Century. She is especially well-known to us today through the incessant - rather, the compelling annual Christmas season rebroadcast of her divine interpretation of Tchaikovsky's (supra) Nutcracker Suite.

Also unfortunately, Gelsey was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, at the height of her career, for more than two years, by her jealous mother, for doing nothing more than what the rest of New York in the 1970's was doing - partying on cocaine.

(Not TOO bad a wobble there, I hope!)

And so there you have it. The most brilliant Poetess of our time, Scylla vom und zu Karybdis, has condensed as much Greek Tragedy as is contained in all of Homer, throwing in Electra, Oedipus, and Sisyphus like icing on the cake, into what I like to think are among the two most brillliant lines ever written in the English language.

- Enid Evenson Haddow de Burke
Literary Advisor to the Queen

Ode to Phil Hendrie

Margaret Gray -
You are a vestal sage!

(Too bad Henry
Can't afford you minimum wage ... )

Scylla In WWWonderland Canto I

Book One



Canto I



To compose
With mellifluous precision
...

I can't

OH !!!!!!!!!!!