Spare parts
Note: This essay is from the anthology, The End(s) of Performance , Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, eds. New York University Press, 1997. SPARE PARTS "That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt." -- Immanuel Kant Like Willy Loman, my mother was worth more dead than alive. Death of a Secretary. Propped up in bed at the Roswell Cancer clinic, her head c