Scenes From a Broken Hand: Back to School

Monday, September 3, 2007

Back to School

To celebrate the start of a new school year, I invite you to take a brief look at the most frequently banned and challenged books in America's public schools over the past year:

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/

Goosebumps young adult novels: sure
Grand Theft Auto video games: check
Misogynistic and violent rap lyrics: fine
The Great Gastby: hell no!

So we beat on, boats agains the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past...the Dark Ages, in this particular case.

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Scenes from a Broken Hand

CHESTER:
This monk I knew in Thailand... amazing man. He was always talking about these veils that stand between us and reality—and how you had to push them back to win the Hide and Seek.

JIM:
Hide and Seek?

MORDECAI:
It's a game, Pogo—the one I'm playing with myself—my real self, deep down.

CHESTER:
No, no. God, or the world, or whatever is out there, is playing it--with all of us. See, God is like this tremendous hand, and we, all of us, everything, are like the fingers. What God does is, he splits himself up into all these different parts, all these fingers: plants, fish, people, rocks—and then—this is the amazing part— he forgets! He forgets what he's done. He plays a game with himself, see? Hide and Seek! That's what the veils are for—so he can forget—so we can forget where it all came from. We see the fingers, but we never see the hand.

from Scenes From a Broken Hand,
a play by Andrew Ordover