I began reading Edward Said's On Late Style last week. Mostly, I dove into the chapter on Glenn Gould and have been swimming in it ever since. Over the next month or so (I'm writing my thesis so it's difficult to carve out the time to do this), I'm going to go through the essay using it as a springboard to discuss the following topics: appropriation & stealing, creation & inspiration, and performance in relation to my own acting/directing/ writing and specifically in relation to work on Hanke's Offending the Audience (which I'm in the process of memorizing). Gould is one of my sources of inspiration as I tackle this text. I've been listening to his Radio Documentaries and the Solitude Trilogy. In the meantime, John Updike reviews Said's book in the August 8th issue of The New Yorker. You can read it here.
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