This is not only historic, but grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, a phrase invented by the former Fianna Fáil leader, Charles J Haughey.
Writer thinks that the disparity between youth & age among the team's regulars seems a source of strength this season, where it was only a grotesque in 1962.
But, asserting that Mayans today are extinct, as many do, not only denotes grotesque ignorance and bigotry, but it is a rhetorical manoeuvre to validate their exploitation, conveniently transforming them into cheap labour to cater for their billionaire tourist industry.
In one well-known scene in the book that is incorporated into the play, Josef's pals Mietus Michal Zgiett) and Siphon (Jaroslaw Tomica) duel with each other, their only weapons grotesque facial grimaces and alternately pious or obscene gestures.
Beauty is too much, the book pleads; it can only become grotesque, gruesome: A pigeon's heart swings here on the kissing-gate, withered, stuck through with pins, while out on the estuary, beaks of birds needle to the wind's compass... Death - human and animal - leaves an emptiness to be filled by the inadequacies of memory: the life force is deleted by the history of language.
Consequently, only the more grotesque attacks on this freedom tend to provoke a reaction on campus.
They are proof only of a grotesque lack of respect and decadent failure of perspective.
Similar to the Yaka tudansi mask is the hemba mask of the nearby Suku, which is only slightly less grotesque.
Only when such grotesque abuses end will oil wealth stop being cursed as diabolical and start being seen for what it should have been all along a blessing.
