I'm a University Lecturer in English and the author of a novel, The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage 2002). My life is summed up by Rumi, who said: "My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy." Rumi's quote is the epigraph to Hurricanes. The purpose of this journal is to explore creativity and the writing life.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
My Sleeves
Yesterday (Wednesday) I showed Modern Times to my Modern Poetry students. I laughed so much that my eyes filled with tears. I had to wipe my eyes on my sleeves.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Chaplin
How fantastic! Charlie Chaplin is poetry!
Gretchen