Life Goat Notes
posted by on May 4 at 13:15 PM
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Look at the Greek origin of the word “tragedy” and what you will see is a singing goat. From “trag” we get the goat, and from “edy” we get the song. Scholars have yet to produce a hard explanation for the connection between a goat that sings and a play that has a sad ending. But of all the theories that have been thought up—because actors were paid with goats, because some actors dressed up as goats, because goats were brought into the orchestra at the end of a play—this is by far the most compelling: because the sound a dying goat makes is absolutely tragic.
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On a farm near Ocean City, Maryland, my father attempts to make a man of me by making me, a boy, kill a goat. The sun is in the middle of the sky, the thick farmer’s face is red, the fat goat is tied to the ground, something sharp and heavy is in my small hands (an ax?). My dad is waiting for me to become a man. The American farmer is waiting for these Africans to get this ritual business over and done with. I look at the goat: it’s eyes are empty and stupid; its mouth is open and stupid, it’s belly is swollen and stupid—but I cant kill the stupid thing. My father sees this, sees his son is soft, takes the ax (or whatever it was), and blood explodes from the blow on the goat’s throat. It screams, bleeds, and dies.
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From Charles Mungoshi’s short story “Mountain”:
There was a black goat following us…
“You have insulted [the goat],” Chemai said accusingly.
I said nothing. It was no use pretending I didn’t know what I was doing. I knew these goats. Lost spirits. Because I had laughed at it it would follow me wherever I went. It would behave in every way as if I were its friend or, better still, its husband. It was a goat in body but a human in spirit.
Wtf?
You old man's a goat killer!
i second that WTF! can some one give Mr Mudede a real writing assingment?
Back away from the bong, Chuck.
P.S. The restaurant Lola serves a surprisingly delicious goat dish.
It's interesting that upon stopping and considering another creature's 'container-with-life-force', a human feels natural interpreting it as a somehow-displaced human.
You Charles are the product of modern post agricultural revolution life where one happily waltzes into a supermarket and picks up a steak yet has qualms about performing the coupe de grace that produces the steak. Your father, on the other hand, comes from by gone days when one had a connection to the process through which he was fed.
Thank you for giving goats a chance. In a recent story I wrote, a man comes across a terrible scene in a forest clearing where he sees the "goat boy."
What compelled me to write "goat boy," I wonder, and not "lion boy" or "beast boy?" Here is the answer: the goat is just a stupid creature, and in tragedy, the cause for a person's demise does not come from something powerful or intelligent, but just a stupid mistake, something that should not have happened. Yet, somehow, this is the most frightening thing of all. Goats are just so useless, yet we must give them a chance, we must empathize with them. Thus we risk seeing ourselves, too, as only stupid, ugly goats.
Thank you for giving goats a chance. In a recent story I wrote, a man comes across a terrible scene in a forest clearing where he sees the "goat boy."
What compelled me to write "goat boy," I wonder, and not "lion boy" or "beast boy?" Here is the answer: the goat is just a stupid creature, and in tragedy, the cause for a person's demise does not come from something powerful or intelligent, but just a stupid mistake, something that should not have happened. Yet, somehow, this is the most frightening thing of all. Goats are just so useless, yet we must give them a chance, we must empathize with them. Thus we risk seeing ourselves, too, as only stupid, ugly goats.
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