Syllabus for WRITING, as if FOR LIFE

Exploring the internal through external expression

WRITING, as if FOR LIFE

A 4 Week Course Engaging the Challenge of Internal Exploration & Creative Expression

Instructor: Robert L. Kehoe III
Assistant/Tutor: Erik van Mechelen

Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9

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Why

There is a telling moment, early in Charles Dickens’s, David Copperfield. At the time, the young hero is suffering from the death of his father. Adding the unspeakable pain, for fear of impoverishment David’s mother has taken up with a cruel partner who subjects him to an oppressive menu of emotional and physical abuse. It is at the point of nearly unbearable humiliation that David describes what kept him from complete stupefying despair.

It was this. My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own), and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphry Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not…