“Once upon a time there was … ‘A king!’ my little readers will say right away. No, children. You are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.”~ C. Collodi — The Adventures Of Pinocchio PINOCCHIO – by Norman B Whoa! Pinocchio! Poke ‘im in the nose, Way up in the Poconos! Whoa! Oh, Pinocchio’s Mystery history, Historical, not hysterical hysteria: In Hesperia, he was carved By Giapetto, Who, in cultural anthropology, We realize, Is the same As the Titan Japetus. This, of course, Makes our pal Pinocchio The brother of both Prometheus and Atlas. Giapetto whittled Pinocchio While bro Prometheus made man. The father’s hand Fashioned from wood, The son sculpted from the sand Of the land. Does this tell us Anything about the Acts Of John and Luke and Mark And Matthew? Have we found the ground Upon which to expound That Man is not the son of God, But his grand-nephew? Whoa! Pinocchio! Poke ‘im in the nose, Way up in the Poconos! Woe o’ Pinocchio! (p)1986 (from Deviations from the Norm) Norman B, (p)(c)2007 Norman Schulerud Bie, Jr. All rights reserved. First performed live in 1984. First broadcast on WMNF Tampa community radio in 1985. Carlo Collodi wrote Pinocchio as a serial between 1881 and 1883. The children’s version came out as a book in 1883. SEE Boccaccio’s Decameron, Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, Ovid, Pausanius, Apulius, Lucian, Apollodorus, Plato, the Bible, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, RL Stevenson’s My Travels as a …

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