The Good Lord Bird

My decision to follow Transcendentalism for 2021, as much as I can stay on any topic, author, movement or genre, has been met by 2 amazing shows.

I have written about Dickinson, which has easily rocketed to my top 10 favorite shows.

Now, at the recommendation of a friend, I have found The Good Lord Bird. Hawke is wonderful as John Brown, combing his beard with his fork at Frederick Douglass' dinner table. Daveed Diggs is great as Douglass.

These two shows are amazing.

In the disappointing Susan Cheever book on Transcendentalism, she can't get over the murders orchestrated by John Brown, but in my readings I have a hard time forgetting the head blown off a slave who went into a river in an attempt to avoid punishment, as reported in the Frederick Douglass biography.

I almost tried to read Cheever's book on sexual addiction, but I've given up. But not before in paging through and reading that I got to disturbing idea that sexual addiction in men is like Bulimia. Yikes. I'm not trying to throw up people, expel them. I don't think anyway.

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