6/4: landscape
This summer, another professor and I are in a working group with some students focused on adaptation studies. We're all reading Linda Hutcheon's Theory of Adaptation together, and then we're each pursuing individual adaptation-oriented projects. One of the students is experimenting with turning a short story by Margaret Atwood into a screenplay. The story is "Death by Landscape," and I read it for the first time this afternoon--wow. (If you're interested you can read it by clicking here.) It gave me a lot to think about as I kayaked through my own landscape this evening.
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Witnessing joy in a little girl shouting into an empty parking garage, just to hear the echo.
Feeling like your life is whirling forward faster than you can grasp, and then remembering, without a doubt, that it is all a part of the plan.
Amazing, Michael. And a welcome moment of stability amid the whirl, Dulce. Thank you both for sharing!
One of my favorite Atwood's, esp. to use in Creative Writing. We usually have great discussions about why Atwood chooses to have Lois in older age bookending the story of Lucy, what power that brings to the story.
Ah, it makes sense that you know the story, Sandy!
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