![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly my world's boundaries shot outward. At ten years old I received a shortwave radio. Everyone lived in the suburbs, didn’t they? But then other possibilities presented themselves. We were "the people," confirmed by the programs we watched on TV. Many are the societies whose name for themselves means "the people." I accepted unthinkingly the white, upper middle-class world of Santa Monica, California that I grew up in. Immersed in them, we can't get an objective view and tend toward thinking they're universal, or should be. "A man is known least to himself," wrote Cicero. In truth the book came from far in my past, and all our pasts. With its braiding together of creation motifs from around the world, First Light, First Life might seem to have been rushed into print to counter the nationalism and religious intolerance that's erupted into American political life. Information and resources on the plays and playwrights spoofed in the play How the book about the founding of a community garden came to beĪn excerpt from my Anne Carroll Moore Lecture, describing my career as a teenaged printerĪ piece published in "Shouts and Murmurs" in the New Yorker The first scene, showing the spoken musical style ![]()
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