04-10-2010, 03:43 PM
Ed,
Again I'm endebted to you for the time and energy you continue to expend in this discussion.
FYI, the outline and abstract phases of my operation have been completed. The treatment currently hangs on a critical decision relating to the core narrative structure. Resolution is just around the corner.
If I'm less than forthcoming on all of this, it is a result of the imposition of security-related precautions. While I don't have the temerity to suggest that Weir Point (working title) is so outrageously precious a commodity that it is a prime target for Hollywood raiders, I've been around enough industry blocks to know when to shut up and when to put up.
The steps you outline above were taken at the nascent stage of this progress, in the midst of scholarly research and, to the degree that it is possible, objective study. Conclusions have been reached. They now must inform artistic expression. The processes are quite distinct, as you know.
In other words, I must show rather than tell why "the deep politics behind the death of Custer at Little Big Horn is pertinent and illustrative of today's national political scene," and "why a significant effort to archaeologically dig up the truths hidden by the myths ... will have an impact ... freedom and quality of life".
The time has come to re-create a world -- one which I am obliged to render truthfully if not literally.
I've been posing the all-but-identical query for too many autumns too long. My very first presentation before a JFK scholarly conference (the first Third Decade meeting in Fredonia, New York back in 1991, I believe) included a brief presentation on this theme. I later published a lengthy, similarly themed essay, "In the Blossom of Our Sins," in Jerry Rose's journal, and I re-published it here when this site came into being. At a JFK/Lancer "November in Dallas" conference, I delivered one of two keynote addresses; on that occasion I once again asked how we define "justice" in this case, how our shared missions can be defined, and how we'll know when our missions are accomplished.
At one Lancer event I presented a paper in which I asked how we might "return the fire" that took out JFK. I suggested (yet again) that we are at war with his killers, and then asked after the wisdom of renaming Dealey Plaza the "JFK Battlefield National Monument" (I quoted from and still highly recommend Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields, by Professor Edward Linenthal).
Answers remain ... elusive.
Again I'm endebted to you for the time and energy you continue to expend in this discussion.
FYI, the outline and abstract phases of my operation have been completed. The treatment currently hangs on a critical decision relating to the core narrative structure. Resolution is just around the corner.
If I'm less than forthcoming on all of this, it is a result of the imposition of security-related precautions. While I don't have the temerity to suggest that Weir Point (working title) is so outrageously precious a commodity that it is a prime target for Hollywood raiders, I've been around enough industry blocks to know when to shut up and when to put up.
Ed Jewett Wrote:So perhaps the first step in the graduated series of written treatments is to explain why an understanding of the deep politics behind the death of Custer at Little Big Horn is pertinent and illustrative of today's national political scene, and why a significant effort to archaeologically dig up the truths hidden by the myths before or even in parallel with similar efforts relative to the numerous recent deep political SCAD's will have an impact on the freedom and quality of life for my 30-something children and their toddlers.
The steps you outline above were taken at the nascent stage of this progress, in the midst of scholarly research and, to the degree that it is possible, objective study. Conclusions have been reached. They now must inform artistic expression. The processes are quite distinct, as you know.
In other words, I must show rather than tell why "the deep politics behind the death of Custer at Little Big Horn is pertinent and illustrative of today's national political scene," and "why a significant effort to archaeologically dig up the truths hidden by the myths ... will have an impact ... freedom and quality of life".
The time has come to re-create a world -- one which I am obliged to render truthfully if not literally.
Ed Jewett Wrote:I have asked the question before:
Where is the schwerpunkt (the focal point, or center of gravity) of our efforts, singly and collectively? Where should our efforts be concentrated?[/U]
I've been posing the all-but-identical query for too many autumns too long. My very first presentation before a JFK scholarly conference (the first Third Decade meeting in Fredonia, New York back in 1991, I believe) included a brief presentation on this theme. I later published a lengthy, similarly themed essay, "In the Blossom of Our Sins," in Jerry Rose's journal, and I re-published it here when this site came into being. At a JFK/Lancer "November in Dallas" conference, I delivered one of two keynote addresses; on that occasion I once again asked how we define "justice" in this case, how our shared missions can be defined, and how we'll know when our missions are accomplished.
At one Lancer event I presented a paper in which I asked how we might "return the fire" that took out JFK. I suggested (yet again) that we are at war with his killers, and then asked after the wisdom of renaming Dealey Plaza the "JFK Battlefield National Monument" (I quoted from and still highly recommend Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields, by Professor Edward Linenthal).
Answers remain ... elusive.