A leg up: This is another absurdist piece in which a certain position of the leg is given a perhaps undue degree of attention or predominance.
From the program: “It is is envisioned that the audience, upon reading A Leg Up, rather than standing and applauding half-heartedly or wildly, will instead stand and lift their right leg up, quite soberly and stolidly — indeed they should do this even if they have not read or otherwise enjoyed A Leg up –; balancing upon their left foot, as if frozen in a march, they should hold this position for about as long as they would otherwise clap or for about as long as it would have taken them to read A Leg up if that’s what they had done…”
Of course no one need read A LEG UP, that is ridiculous. Yet all might do one better and “read the experience,” as it were, of having one’s leg up, the program continues. One might “read” in this manner without access to or need of paper, without access to or need of writer, of written, of computer, of other reading device or publisher, of internet, of another… (One might hold one’s leg up, in other words, and feel, and not be told, exactly what that is like.)
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