The puppet is carved from the heart, but the conscience is carved by the mind.
And Pinocchio will become a real boy, if he proves himself brave, truthful and unselfish...
Scene no 41: The wooden puppet Pinocchio and his conscience Jiminy Cricket. (Enesco, Jim Shore, Disney Traditions, #4005220 Carved From The Heart and #4005219 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide).
«The whole nature of man presupposes
woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the
start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water,
light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc...»
Scene no 40: The Man shows the
Boy the nature of the Woman (Preiser HO 10439 Nude Bathers & Noch HO 15958 Nude models, HO 15959 Ladies of
the Night).
The text: From TWO ESSAYS IN
ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, by Carl Jung.
«How best to kill dragons has been the subject of many a debate.
The method most favoured by chivalry is to engage
it in battle when on horseback, and to so manage the lance that it slides
effortlessly between the dragon’s jaws.»
Scene no 39: Knight and Dragon (McFarlane
toys, Dragons Quest for the Lost King, Berserker Clan Dragon vs. Human Attacker).
The text: From THE DRAGON, Nature
of spirit, Spirit of nature, by Francis Huxley.
«It was rather that the astronauts
were the core of some magnetic human force called Americanism, patriotism or
Waspitude, and if they were finally the men of all the men on earth to take the
first step on the way to the stars, who was to say it was not the first step
back to the stars, first step back to joining that mysterious interior material
of the stars, that iron of communion with cosmic origins?
Indeed, who could be absolutely
certain that the astronauts were not men finally forged out of some powerful
equivalent in their blood of the star’s iron...»
Scene no 38: The iron trinity of Astronauts
(PAL plastic Toy soldiers, made in Greece) around a vintage Space Rocket (Masuya Toys, tin
litho rocket NIKE SR-7, friction powered, with box, made in Japan).
The text: From MOONFIRE, by Norman Mailer.
«...Your punt is about to nose silently
out into new backwaters of horror where the trees are heavy with untried fruits
that look both beautiful and poisonous.
Though unused to the currents here,
I hope you don’t get lost, and the vivid and toxic delicacies on display are to
your tastes.»
Scene no 37: Green Man (Swamp Thing, McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse Action Figure) and his red woman (Poison Ivy, Diamond Select Toys, DC Gallery PVC Figure).
The text: From an introduction by Alan Moore, to the The Saga of the Swamp Thing.
«It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the ETERNAL INEQUALITY of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy. We had seen little men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to human nature. Therefore, we decreed that every man should thenceforth have equal liberty to find his own level. By this very decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, “Let the best man win, whoever he is.” Let the best man win! That is America's word. That is true democracy. And true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the same thing. If anybody cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight.»
Scene no 36: Cowboy duels in the Wild West (Plastic unpainted 14
cm cowboys – 1 Marx figure made in Gr. Britain, and 3 similar to Marx figures made in Italy), in front of a deciduous tree (Marx toys).
The text: From the novel THE
VIRGINIAN, A Horseman of the Plains, by Owen Wister.
«Then some bright lad in the General
Assembly decided that we ought to field an army of footsoldiers to guard the
portal planets of the nearer collapsars.
This led to the Elite Conscription
Act of 1996 and the most cutely conscripted army in the history of warfare.»
Scene no 35:
The elite force (Cherilea Toys, 6 different space figures - plastic astronauts)
ready to establish a base in a distant planet beyond the borders of the galaxy.
Behind them, their round starship (Modern Toys, Space Patrol X-17, lithographed
tinplate, battery operated with bump and go action and flashing lights) in
front of an alien landscape (Editions Touret, the plain from the paper cutting
kit Apollo sur la Lune)
The text: From the military science fiction novel The
Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
