Tag: True West
“You are making that toast sound like salvation or something…”
by Sean Murphy on Apr.16, 2009, under Ruminations in Real Time
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Some people see the face of Christ in their pancakes; other folks are more interested in creating their own miracles.
An inexorable sign of the ever-impending Apocalypse?
Signal of man’s restless and irrepressible technological advancement?
The sine qua non of cyber-dork exultation?
All of the above, obviously.
Personally, if I want to synthesize an apotheosis of the Holy Spirit and the surreal, I turn to Sam Shepard’s True West. Among many other things, the concept of toast as salvation is addressed in some detail.
