Hi, getting slowly caught up and enjoying this inspiring season. Mom, your poem made me think of the drama that Kierkegaard suggests in the 'great leap of faith'--more than the 'positivism' that was trying to prevail in the 19th century (and, on technological fronts, seems to have prevailed in this day and age).
The combination of this XLibris self-publishing option--endorsed by Shakespeare!--and the rock-clinging and hymn singing compels me to try a new genre: drama. Everything so far is 'place-holder', but the working title, "Codex Orange" is going to stretch a week in the life of a school community setting itself up for a terrorist simulation. We had this at ISP, but I want to set the story in some middle-American town--thinking of Golden Valley, MN. The 'orange' plays on the particularities of a basketball/rim and the suggestion that any school, anywhere, needs to prepare itself for a 'Beslan catastrophe'. As I hope everyone knows, I am loathe to read let alone write gratuitous violence in fiction, and the key point here is that the conflict is in the plan and communication of the simulation of this event--on purpose cloistered to prevent a community debate. One arm of that debate would entail whether we (Golden Valley, as place-holder) are more apprehensive about Columbine or Al Qaida (or something else). Along the way, I hope to lighten the mood with some aesthetics on basketball and some very good people in the school and police department.
I'm thinking of doing this in gmail googledox installments, by the way--is anyone else on this wiki platform?
love to you all,
Dan
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