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Nichole Donje's avatar

Grreat reading.

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Mike Rivera's avatar

This gave me so much to sit with and think about. I didn't know much about Cortázar and ended up in a bit of a Google rabbit hole. Appreciate that, legitimately. I also had never read/heard Graffiti, but your commentary helped to frame it perfectly. I like this format, where you don't try to over explain it. It feels like an invitation instead of a lecture. Great great stuff.

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Keith Christiansen's avatar

Thanks so much! I love him, but it's a bit hard to know how this story will land with people. As I think I mentioned in the notes, I just love how he sets up the whole world with juts a few phrases, lands you in the middle of it without exposition, as it's it's something you already know and live within.

Should I add some other suggested readings for him?

And did you find anything interesting in your searching?

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Mike Rivera's avatar

Yeah, I'd love some suggestions.

I mean, the whole idea of Rayuela is awesome and now is sort of begging my attention. Other than that, I got kind of pulled into a bunch of stuff about Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez. Latin America Boom type stuff.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Going to watch this tomorrow!

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Keith Christiansen's avatar

Cool! Hope it’s interesting to you! It’s a great story, if a bit of a hard one to hear.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Actually, I am doing a theater presentation today… so it’ll be tomorrow! Pinky promise

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Keith Christiansen's avatar

No problem! Break a leg!

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Jeffrey Gibbs's avatar

Nice. And I like this question: What’s the smallest act you’ve done lately that felt like it mattered? I think many small acts matter so hard to feel very profound about it. But I went out of my way to make sure a middle schooler could enter the high school's seagull imitation contest, then told her this morning I had done so and why I had (she is a natural performer, funny, and would love this kind of silliness) It clearly affected her that I had noticed this and made sure she could participate.

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Keith Christiansen's avatar

That’s wonderful. I miss working with middle schoolers just because of that kind of thing.

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