Nearly at the end of Week 1, so what do we know? When we turned up we were interviewed on video separately, and then given little brown envelopes which contained the rules, which are:
-Spend 24 Hours awake in Blackpool
-Find/create a structure that is new to you
-The body must be contained or bound
-Bring the outside in.
I read part of a little book by Peter Kreeft called The Sea Within: Waves and the Meaning of All Things (2006, St. Augustine's Press). It purported to be philosophy but the more I read it the more it seemed be be theological, and I'm starting to shy away from it a bit, but I read this quote of somebody called Carl Sandburg, who said: "the sea hugs and will not let go". I looked up Carl Sandburg on wikipedia (like a true scholar), and found that Carl Sandburg was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist, and on a site for the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, it said:
Carl Sandburg's Legacy Touches Our LivesI'm making it my business so explore who I am, where I am going, and where I have been. I don't know a definitive answer to either one of these, but perhaps a being-24-hours-awake-in-Blackpool-finding-or-creating-a-structure-that-is-new-to-me-being
Carl Sandburg spent a lifetime exploring what it meant to be an American and asked the eternal questions, "Who am I, where am I going and where have I been?"... He did this through poetry, song, lectures, writing and lasting friendships with kindred spirits.
-contained-or-bound-and-bringing the-outside-in might further complicate these persistent and worrisome questions.
Socially, not a bad little week. I am friendly with Neil and Simone and Alice already, but meeting Chris, Eleni and Bethany was a pleasure. We didn't spend much time together this week but next week we have to do workshops for each other. Went out last night (Thursday) ended up getting a bit more than tipsy with Alice and Chris, and I've been paying the price most of the day. We are blogging our doings at nuffieldtheatre.blogspot.com.
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