4023. Tragedy
and pathos are not allowed either. The running of the chicken must not elicit
any tears or any feeling of sorrow. We are after two things with our running,
and those two things are terror and horror, that it what we are trained to
create in the heart of the viewer.
4024. Years ago
other effects were tried. The Babylon roosters tried for a long time to give
the impression of a formal military look as they were a part of a martial
society, but it never seemed to create the right effect. Greek chickens
sometimes tried a formal dance movement carried out slowly, similar to a
slow-motion ballet. It is believed that it was very effective but today no one
knows for certain what it looked like.
4025. The only
way we know about the Greek rooster death dances is because it is mentioned in
one of Euripides lost tragedies, but scholars are not in agreement about it.
4026. Roman chickens were the first to
formally adopt the effect of terror overlaid with horror and fear. This is
quite understandable seeing as the Romans liked to employ realism in their art.
Consider their use of the death mask; by casting the face of the dead into
plaster, and using it to model portrait sculpture, they unflinchingly faced up
to the frightfulness of the subject.
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