June 28, 2005
I hate to brag
but a student in my summer course has recently published a fine series of posts on George Stewart's Earth Abides, with at least one more promised.
And speaking of that class, why, oh why, did I schedule a screening of On the Beach? I just finished rereading the novel last night and yes, it is dated, the dialogue is clunky, the gender politics suck, and the characterization is wooden, but nevertheless yours truly was shedding real salt tears. It was the dead baby, you see. There is an excellent chance I will humiliate myself in class tomorrow. Unless the DVD player stops working. Saayy ...
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Ah, it may be all of those things, but I read the book by torchlight under the covers at about age 12, and I can still remember how terrifying it was to emerge into the silence of Australian suburbia at about 3am. It certainly had an impact on me, and I'd suspect that on a generation of students who don't think about nuclear war any more it might also have an impact on them.
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