“What does it mean to be human?”
So I sat in a cafe and I brought out my notebooks and writing books for Ron the Body, last touched almost a year ago. And I was surprised by how much there is – 40,000 or 50,000 words, whole subplots and sections I’d forgotten, and a lot of it seemed good.
What I had to do was what I needed to do a year ago, what I realised I had to sort out before carrying on – I had to figure out exactly what Ron the Body is about. And check that it is about what I think it’s about.
So I wrote five pages on it, impressions and core ideas, key principles. Key questions. Including the one at the top of this entry. Blimey. So, not avoiding the big questions, then, I guess 🙂
It’s cool. My brain has been Ron-buzzing since.
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Over on Rafah Kid, Mark has posted a great entry about how the sides talk to each other over Israel and Palestine, including an excellent section about Rachel Corrie and how she has become a rhetorical battleground.
Read it. It is really something special.