And what a wonderful exploration of a child's way of tunneling into corners, through passages, up stairways.
– RP The Feed on SBS has been pumping out some great segments this year, from a heartbreaking look at bullying to an investigation into Australia's most homophobic town and a wonderful exploration of competitive dog grooming in Australia.
On the one hand, it's like a literary version of Mike Mills's "Beginners," almost entirely populated by Hasids; on the other, it's a wonderful exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to justify and impart narrative weight to our curiosities and compulsions.
David Niose, president of the Secular Coalition for America, called it "a wonderful exploration of life as a skeptic".
(Pick up a copy of Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" for a truly wonderful exploration of that theme).
The Sunday Tribunes Neil Dunphy selected it as his CD of the week, calling it "a wonderful exploration of a sound often derided for being in thrall to its influences" and commenting: "I don't know why but Bell X1 used to make me cringe.
Over at The New Republic, Elspeth Reeve has written an utterly wonderful exploration of this, noting that the media's perennial demand for Hillary Clinton to be more "authentic" always backfires on everyone, because the media doesn't really understand what "authenticity" is, and whenever Clinton actually evinces any of it, the media recoils in disgust and confusion.
He wrote, "Overall, this was a strong episode, with a lot of wonderful character exploration and an interesting concept.
The book I have enjoyed most is Karl Miller's Tretower to Clyro (Quercus), a collection of characteristically pawky essays by one of the great literary editors of our time, combined with a wonderful account of explorations à trois of the Celtic parts of Great Britain.
Instead of viewing their behavior as impulsive or irresponsible, we can now see the adolescent period as one of wonderful transformation, of needed exploration of a new and changing world.
