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WRITING, as if FOR LIFE
A 5 Week Course Engaging the Challenge of Internal Exploration & Creative Expression
This is the second offering of this course. The first, held in November and December 2020, led to interest by several students to join Robert for his 6-month apprenticeship.
Instructor: Robert L. Kehoe III
Assistant: Erik van Mechelen
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
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…
