by Pearl Klein | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
For a while I thought I could just record my thoughts with my phone and come back a year or two later and know what I was talking about. From the edited transcript of moderately intriguing thoughts below, I see now that might have been an error in judgment. The basic...
by Pearl Klein | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recently, I became aware that you were using words I’d written on your website. I no longer think of those as precisely “my words,” since a client paid me to write them, and since nobody can really own words (more on that later), but still, you...
by Pearl Klein | May 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
I. John Donne covers the difference between apart and separate in his poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” which I once had by heart but when I rewrote the last line, I figured I’d better return to the source. This poem came into my mind at...
by Pearl Klein | May 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m interested in what is the least you can tell the audience and still keep the story moving. The hint, the suggestion, the blank spaces that correspond precisely to a set of letters that you won’t recognize immediately but whose pattern will suddenly...
by Pearl Klein | May 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I was teaching college, I used to share William Pastille’s 1998 commencement address with my favorite classes. (Yes, I had favorites but didn’t play them. Some groups of people who come together just jell better.) Mr. Pastille was a tutor of my...
