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Overview
As you read and imagine changing places with the people you are reading about, do you find yourself beginning to see things in new ways?
Try role-playing in your journal. Many writers have done this, with excellent often startling results. Write from the point of view of someone completely alien to yourself -- perhaps even someone whose values are anathema to yours. Frighten yourself -- intellectually challenge yourself. Or, push yourself into a role you have, until now, only worshiped from afar. Write from the point of view of a great cultural hero or heroine, imagine yourself possessing the attributes you so desperately admire.
Dare to dream!
Readings
THEORETICAL BASES
"A Scientific Approach to Moral Reasoning" The Atlantic Monthly, April 1998
MUSIC
Bessie Smith
FILM & TELEVISION
Three Kings (1999, dir. David O. Russell)
(war movie database, click here)
LITERATURE -- SHORT STORIES & OTHER PROSE
POETRY
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Background and responses to "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
About Randall Jarrell
Guillaume Apollinaire ("joy came after pain --" memory etc)
"Mirabeau Bridge"
from "Alcools"
Walt Whitman
"A Backward Glance" (a way of knowing -- looking back -- Tinturn Abbeyesque)
Michael Lally
"Forbidden Fruit" (the forbidden fruit of finally feeling forgiveness)
Marilyn Nelson
"House on Moscow Street" ("It's the ragged source of memory...") (1990)
Sappho
"Like the Gods" (transformation after a brush w/death)
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