Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Odd Corners Of The Talk Garden Maid Marion (Olivia De Havilland): “You speak blasphemy!” Robin Hood (Errol Flynn): “Fluently!”

Long Story Shorts To act otherwise, you have to imagine otherwise. Henry Giroux Spreading information is activism. Helena Norberg-Hodge

Glad This Got Said There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete... Most acquire it fragment by fragment like a laborious mosaic. Anaïs Nin

Nutsy Land A free lunch of food for thought.

Ear Drum Taps When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir

Even As We Speak We delay because it is argued that talking is too risky – but experience suggests the real risk lies in not talking. How to talk to terrorists Jonathan Powell Tuesday 7 October 2014 The Guardian

Deviant Curricula You will notice that I have said nothing about the accommodation for the actors. If course it is always terrible, but even here there has been a change. In the old theatres they had smelly kennels in which to change their clothes. But nowadays after the School Board has cut the estimates and changed the plans, they have nothing at all. Have you ever tried to transform yourself into a great character of drama in a schoolroom? The ghost of dead mathematics teachers clutch at your costume and smear your make-up actors of an earlier day dressed in bad conditions too, even in barns, but the barns were unmistakably associated with Life; those schoolroom dressing accommodations speak of education, of repression, of being kept in after four, and their air vents whisper of lingering and chalky death. Humor is put to silence, Passion is rebuked, and Imagination is made to dance in chains. Robertson Davies How To Design A Haunted House