A perfect, mind-blowing winter book.
Listeners of a conservative bent, who feel alienated and disenfranchised by big media, Hollywood and academia, represent "a perfect mind-set for radio, a niche medium, to target an audience that will be loyal," Harrison says.
As an alternative revelation to John's, she focusses on what must be the single most astonishing text of its time, the long feminist poem found at Nag Hammadi in 1945 and called "Thunder, Perfect Mind"—a poem so contemporary in feeling that one would swear it had been written by Ntozake Shange in a feminist collective in the nineteen-seventies, and then adapted as a Helen Reddy song.
Also continuing: Told By an Idiot's My Perfect Mind, a story of King Lear and strokes, at the Drum.
In 2013, he made a show, My Perfect Mind, about his experience.
Another text that fascinated Pagels was "Thunder: Perfect Mind," a mystical poem spoken in the voice of a female divine: For I am the first and the last.
As an alternative revelation to John's, she focusses on what must be the single most astonishing text of its time, the long feminist poem found at Nag Hammadi in 1945 and called "Thunder, Perfect Mind" — a poem so contemporary in feeling that one would swear it had been written by Ntozake Shange in a feminist collective in the nineteen-seventies, and then adapted as a Helen Reddy song.
Edward Petherbridge plays himself and King Lear in Told by an Idiot's My Perfect Mind at the Young Vic in London until 27 September, then touring until 21 November.
She has also become a sought-after director and is rehearsing "My Perfect Mind," the semi-autobiographical story of Edward Petherbridge, an actor who suffered a stroke while preparing to play King Lear.
Performed with Paul Hunter, Mr. Petherbridge's cohort in a disastrous West End revival in 2010 of the musical "The Fantasticks," "My Perfect Mind" could be described as a trip down memory lane as enacted by someone whose own memory has been under attack.
There is an answer not a perfect one mind you but a pretty good one.
