Literature

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Will the Handmaid’s Tale Make You A Better Listener?

This entry was posted in Literature Psychology Television on May 1, 2017 by Steve (updated on April 16, 2022)

This is the walkaway that Bruce Miller, Executive Producer of Hulu’s new series, The Handmaid’s Tale, want’s viewers to have:

But if you can provoke some better listening that would be a goal for a show like this. To look at someone in an extreme situation, and talk about it, and through that recognize something you can translate to your normal life.

Will you be more likely to listen to others after you watch The Handmaid’s Tale?

Well, it is to early to tell but I know that I am going read the book again and will be activating a Hulu account soon.

In the meantime, listen when others are talking!

Here are a few related links that I have run across recently:

• Margaret Atwood, The Prophet of Dystopia
• Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Enraging, riveting and scarily relevant
• Reading The Handmaid’s Tale in the Year of Trump
• Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale, One Month Into the Trump Era via Digby
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Slate

There are plenty more if you want to take a deeper dive via your search engine of choice.

 

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Birds, Art, Literature and More

This entry was posted in Art Bird Blogging Books Culture Literature on August 21, 2008 by Steve

What do Ansel Adams, Rumi, Poe, Shakespeare, Van Gogh, Pollock, Descartes, Lindbergh, Burnet and Whitman have in common with our feathered Friends?

Find out in Kathie’s presentation of I and the Bird #82: the Artsy Fartsy Birds Edition.

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Samual Pepys’ Birds

This entry was posted in Bird Blogging Literature on April 17, 2008 by Steve

Taken straight from …a manuscript recently discovered in an attic A Snail’s Eye View presents I and the Bird #73 as extracted from The Other Diary of Samuel Pepys.
As noted by Born Again Bird Watcher:

I stand in profound and humble awe.

Go join Mr. Pepys and his friends on their birding journeys.

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Endings

This entry was posted in Literature on March 13, 2008 by Steve

Via Kottke is this PDF listing the 100 best ending lines from novels.
Your mileage may very; mine does. They left out this:

He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.
He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)

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Quote of the Day #3 ~ Education

This entry was posted in Education Literature Quotes on October 15, 2007 by Steve

…I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960, page 37 in the 1982 Popular Library Edition

Hmmm, this is probably exactly what the state had/has in mind…

Given the structure of the education school systems in the US those who are not afflicted with boredom must be the small exception.

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