My puppet, Brooklyn Birch suffers at times from some really disastrous reasoning that on occasion effects his apatite. He read about Jack and his beanstalk who stole a harp, and a chicken that could lay golden eggs, then chopped down the bean stalk, so the giant would fall to his death. Did the giant get what he deserved or was the giant just trying to protect his territory? And then there is the example of the website for Obamacare. Even one magic bean, at certain times, it seems, may be just too much to swallow.

Comedy, in the divine sense by Dante, I think this is one of the greatest works in literature. This story-poem, an allegory, I believe, reflects the human condition by its merits or demerits, the rewards or the punishments of spiritual, or rather divine justice. Dante's creative conjuration is powerful. It allows the spiritual, the soul of man to take form, perhaps comic form, most certainly a form in reality, and as it is in comedy, the 'what if' scenario, once invisible, through the author, the actor, the person...the invisible becomes visible.