Flexibility is one of the greatest human attributes and one of the hardest to evoke when it is demanded. September requires a great deal of this flexibility as I am learning: thus I will hold off the Aeneid study until there is a critical mass (post- Paradise Lost?) and offer some shorter studies in the meantime to meet the schedule needs of these days of schedules shifting, classes starting, Olympics ending and evening falling.
So here are the coming Salon studies–when possible, please sign up as soon as you can as some Salons have had to be cancelled due to lack of the minimum number of participants even though quite a few were interested in the study. The commitment to a Salon may be like the discipline of exercise–hard to take the plunge, daunting to schedule, but never regretted once you have embraced the work and energy of it.
Thursday 14th 8-10 PM “Sonny’s Blues” £5 (trial rate) Not too late to join this study which is designed particularly for those who would like to try a Salon (although experienced Salonistas are very welcome. This is a short story so there is still time to read, the story can be found here. *One Night study*
Thursday 20th September 7:30-10:30 The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot £20 Mary Karr in her introduction to The Wasteland: “The boundary between 20th century verse in English and its 19th century predecessors –Romantic poetry and the genteel Victorian stuff after it—didn’t simply dissolve. It came down with an axe swoop, and the blade was T. S. Eliot’s “Waste Land”. *One Night study*
Tuesday 25th September 8-10 PM The Sound and the Fury four week study £65
Thursday October 4th 7- 10 PM “The Bear” by William Faulkner *One Night study*
Wednesday October 10th (evening)/Thurs 11.10 (afternoons) Paradise Lost Five week study £75 (registration page will be up next week)
Still on the burner, looking for nudges: Howards End, Bleak House, Iliad, Aeneid….
IN writing this post, I searched for a poem on flexibility and found nothing but Hallmark card prattle– does anyone know of a good poem or short writing that explores flexibility with lively language?
