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Well, I’m continuing to work my way through your reading list, Mark…still not turning up much I’d like to use in the class, so far. I read In the Jungle of Cities. I like Brecht’s work a lot (and have some hopes for some of his poems about cities, which are now in the reading pile…) but I can’t see how this piece would give us much leverage in the course…

Also I am going to need some help teaching plays in a classroom, as a script…
seems so…

Arid.
Missing all the good multi-modal stuff.
Just the outline.
A novel w/ everything but the dialogue removed.
Thin.

Anyhow: Stoppard’s Travesties engaged me much more than Brecht’s play…largely because it’s so much more playful—all that extravagant literary pastiche: the parody, the puns and limericks, the comedy of all these bits and pieces filtered through Carr’s distracted mind…

But, still: it’s old and far away. I want something more current. Closer by.
Europe doesn’t do it for me any more…