{"id":8145,"date":"2007-09-23T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/09\/23\/rip-bip-marcel-marceau-dies-at-84\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:42","slug":"rip-bip-marcel-marceau-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/09\/23\/rip-bip-marcel-marceau-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"r.i.p. Bip: marcel marceau dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marcel Marceau<\/strong> as Bip (Reuters photo<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For many reasons, seeing Marcel Marceau perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., circa 1980, was one of the most memorable events of my life (thank you, Ana). Marceau was always the exception to my oft-stated impatience with mimes. Marcel Marceau will be missed by millions; he helped to popularize and perfect his craft. See “Marcel Marceau, Acclaimed Mime, Is Dead at 84<\/a>” (New York Times<\/em>, Sept. 23, 2007); and Ann Althouse<\/em>, “Silenced<\/a>“, who says “Show some unspoken love today,” and has an excellent YouTube video).<\/p>\n

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“In mime, Marceau said, gestures express the essence of the soul’s most secret aspiration. ‘To mime the wind, one becomes a tempest. To mime a fish, you throw yourself into the sea’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

applauding
\nthe mime
\nin our mittens<\/p>\n

………………….. by John Stevenson – Quiet Enough<\/em> (Red Moon Press, 2004)<\/p>\n

sudden lightning\u2013
\nthe street mime
\nclaps<\/p>\n

…………………… by Michael Dylan Welch – from snow on the water<\/em>: RMA 1997<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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winter fog
\neveryone crowds around
\nthe mime<\/p>\n

……………………………….. by ed markowski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

samurai sword
\ndone in ink —
\nhe adds a drop of red<\/p>\n

………………………….. by Yu Chang – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> 2007\/I<\/p>\n

autumn equinox
\nnot even the mime
\ncan balance the egg<\/p>\n

…………………….. by dagosan<\/a> [In mem.<\/em>, Marcel Marceau; see MagnaPoets JF<\/em><\/a>, Sept. 23, 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

afterwords<\/strong><\/em>: A few more quotes from Marcel Marceau:<\/p>\n

“I have designed my style pantomimes<\/a> as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.”
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“Never get a mime talking<\/a>. He won’t stop.”
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words<\/a>?”
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Marcel Marceau as Bip (Reuters photo) For many reasons, seeing Marcel Marceau perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., circa 1980, was one of the most memorable events of my life (thank you, Ana). Marceau was always the exception to my oft-stated impatience with mimes. Marcel Marceau will be missed by millions; he helped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-27n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12454,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}