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The Monday Morning Memo

And now I’m going to give you some more good advice.

Dean Spanley
(2008) is one of the last films made by Peter O’Toole.
Although it was highly acclaimed around the world, it never really caught on in America. In fact, they never even released a DVD of it in the format that will play on American DVD players.

Are you willing to watch it? Wait before you answer; it’s important that you don’t watch the trailer or read ANYTHING about it before you watch it. There are 2 reasons for that:
    1. If you read the premise of the movie, you’ll say,
        “That’s just stupid. I’m not going to watch that.”

    2. If you know what it’s about, it ruins the surprise. And everything
        that’s ever been written about this movie contains spoilers.

I’m now going to tell you everything you need to know:

1. The movie is set in Edwardian England (1901 – 1914)
2. It starts slowly, moves slowly. This is a movie about the acting more than the plot.
3. About the time you start thinking, “Maybe I should bail and watch something else,” its starts getting interesting.
4. It has wine.
5. It has dogs.
6. You can stream it from Netflix or from Amazon.com

Now remember what I told you:
if you do this, you need to do it blindly. And you must do it THIS WEEK.

After you’ve done it, please tell Br’er Whittington that you watched it. He’s making a list and he needs to hear from you before midnight on June 15, 2014. Daniel@WizardAcademy.org
That’s all I’m going to tell you.

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“Dear Reader,

When I was 12, I was given a scholarship to a private girl’s school in the town where I lived. All the other girls came from another – wealthier – town. They were driven to school in Jaguars and Mercedes Benzes. They ate artichokes. No way would I ever fit in.

In the midst of my funk, the English teacher assigned A Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. As it happens, Frankie, the book’s heroine, is also 12 and also wants to belong. Her yearning is such that she wants to know everyone in the world and for everyone to know her – exactly what I wanted! That’s what stunned me, not just the intensity of the longing, but the specificity. It meant – it had to mean – there were other people in the world like me. Not just Frankie, a fictional character, but the author who had to have felt that way herself in order to give Frankie that longing. I felt such an intimate connection with her, as if she’d looked deep inside me and knew me in the way I wanted the world to know me. Reading didn’t just offer escape; it offered connection!

All these years later, I just have to look at my copy of A Member of the Wedding on my bookshelf to experience again how I felt when I first read it and to feel the full force of that connection: to Frankie, to Carson McCullers, to the 12-year-old girl I was, and to 12-year-olds everywhere.”

- Emily Levine, A Velocity of Being, Letters to a Young Reader, p. 52

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