A little of this splashed with a little of that, and well, who knows what will appear? All kinds of things are interesting, except maybe pest control . . . well, maybe even that if the right person were explaining it to me.There's not much that isn't interesting to me, if only for a few moments at least. Especially anything outside the norm, just a bit off the beaten path, half a bubble off, if you know what I mean.
Susan B. Anthony and Emma Goldman--at the same time. Sappho. Ruth Bernhard. Hannah Arendt. And if you know one or more of these folks, I'd be tickled to meet you.
Truly? Perhaps the greatest performer/singer of the 20th Century . . .
I confess--Xena, Warrior Princess.
Fiction: Jane Bowles and AS Byatt. Bowles for 'My Sister's Hand in Mine' and Byatt for just about everything she's written. Right now I am reading lots of Camus (it's that existentialist thing, don't you know?) especially the Notebooks from the late '30s and early 40s. Being in wartime Europe, on a daily lived level, wasn't a whole lot different than living under the Bush administration of today. Camus helps a lot. Next is Victor Frankl, same reasons. I've also been moving through 'The Rise of the Creative Class' and other texts related to innovation and society. I have a hunch that our next best political theory will spring out of the post-modern experience of increased demand for and to be creative as it conflicts with traditional industrial ways doing things.
Susan B. Anthony, Soujourner Truth, Barbara Demming, Hannah Arendt, and who could leave out Karl Marx? These are my intellectual heroes. Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel are my political heroes--after all they led bloodless revolutions, what more could you ask from a person? I deeply admire a number of people in my personal world: students who have overcome incredible odds and finished their degrees (because courage is as courage does and I admire the kind of courage that lasts over long periods of time), family who haven't given up on me, friends who hang in there despite my flakiness, and all the folks at Vera's who make me feel like family--especially Donna and Brian and Rachel and, of course, Wayne.