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Carson McCullers

Story

We will read McCullers’ astonishing story, A Rock. A Tree. A Cloud. PDF

Themes

  • What we might call weirdness in some people…wrongly!!
  • How to Know someone has Figured it All Out
  • How to Live
  • Bad Places and Bad Habits and Bad People…etc.

Notes and References

Songs for the Story !!


Sadly: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/06/entertainment/toby-keith-death/index.html

And maybe this one…


Additional Readings

  1. The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/carson-mccullers-a-life-mary-v-dearborn-book-review. “A writer lives differently from people who don’t write.” Of course.

  2. “Pretend it’s a Seed, OK?” https://youtu.be/wKbUVxjh0mg

Writing Prompts

  1. “So long as you learn, it doesn’t matter who you learn from, does it?”
  2. On being scolded for being in Bad Company
  3. Life Lessons from Graffiti?
  4. On seeing Artists and Designers everywhere…(bah!)
  5. A Strange Transformational Hobby…
  6. On being a Gig Worker
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Last updated on Jul 21, 2024