My
deepest apologies for the tardiness of this post (and that it followed a tardy
post from last week... eek! A bad habit
seems to be forming!)
Anyway,
this week’s post is actually one that I have been thinking about for a while
and will be the first in a series; though the series may be
non-consecutive. Now that the first
draft of My Mother’s Daughters is
complete and back in hibernation for a bit (so I can look at it with fresh eyes
after some time apart), I have been thinking about my next project: Eve of Destruction. I have mentioned this show in previous posts;
it will be a musical using already written songs (along the lines of Mama Mia!, Rock of Ages, and We Will
Rock You) addressing the manipulation by the media of public opinion and
how it can be used by governments and big business as a propaganda machine (do
I hear echoes of Orwell?? Hello, is this 1984
calling? Yes!). It also deals largely
with war and what leads a country to go to war and how the media plays a role
in influencing the population to support these wars (*cough, cough*
Iraq?). I’ve been finding that much of
my writing is leaning towards varying perspectives on war, violence and
government; many ideas are varieties of dystopian fantasy fiction, but I’m
finding with all of these, a huge influence is from quotes that I read.
A while
ago, I picked up a copy of the book 1001
Smartest Things Ever Said edited by Steven D. Price. This is where my plunder comes from this
week. I’ve highlighted many of my
favourites and starred ones that have particular relevance to Eve of Destruction. Those will be the main quotes I’m focusing on
in this part of my plunder.
It
starts with Sir Winston Churchill:
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to
read books or quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it
intently. The quotations when engraved
upon the memory give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
