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a drama with no audience, whose star may already be dead — "the protagonist doesn’t know he’s the…"

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the protagonist doesn’t know he’s the protagonist in a Found Drama because in Reality nobody thinks they’re in any sort of Drama.

Context

Himself's Found Drama is communication reduced to degree zero: a name thrown at a torn-out phone-book page by a dart, that person's next ninety minutes designated a "Drama" with no audience, no camera, no set, and a protagonist who has no idea he's been cast — and who may, Himself especially relished, already be dead, the phone book not yet caught up. It is the figurant doctrine pushed to its limit: everyone an unwitting, unwatched lead in a play no one is attending, a self observed by nobody, possibly a name attached to no living person at all.

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