<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Marionettes Of Distant Masters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to <br>ruin a piano with his fingers . . . <br> On the day of the piano wrecking concert, as he's <br>dressing, he notices a butterfly annoying a flower in his window <br>box. He wonders if the police should be called. Then he thinks <br>maybe the butterfly is just a marionette being manipulated by <br>its master from the window above. <br> Suddenly everything is beautiful. He begins to cry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Then another butterfly begins to annoy the first butterfly. <br>He again wonders if he shouldn't call the police. <br> But, perhaps they are marionette-butterflies? He thinks <br>they are, belonging to rival masters seeing whose butterfly can <br>annoy the other's the most. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And this is happening in his window box. The Cosmic <br>Plan: Distant Masters manipulating minor Masters who, in turn, <br>are manipulating tiny butterfly-Masters who, in turn, are <br>manipulating him . . . A universe webbed with strings! <br> Suddenly it is all so beautiful; the light is strange . . . <br>Something about the light! He begins to cry . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Russell+Edson">Russell Edson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577213" data-title="The Marionettes Of Distant Masters de Russell Edson" data-description="A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . On the day of the piano wrecking concert, as he's dressing, he notices a butterfly annoying a flower in his window box. He wonders if the police sho..."></div> </div> </div>

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