.....Nicolas
Dubet returns from inspired journeys throughout real places,
growing older peacefully, accompanied by the ghost of his
father.
.....In
"The Good Things We Teach", Nicolas will make imaginary
journeys to meet groups of famous and infamous people. Each
time, he will meet a group in a different setting . People
who were among the most influential in the history of our
human adventure.
.....In
a garden of young grass, singing waters and floating scents,
he will meet a group of religious leaders, deities and other
divine characters with whom Nicolas will have hesitant conversations
about the visions they have inspired, and the most intimate
satisfactions or regrets they might have felt.
.....At
the corner of a dirt road, Nicolas will meet with a group
of political leaders, adventurers who shaped history throughout
noble, or not so noble endeavors; Gandhi peacefully conversing
with Hitler who might feel invited to feel somewhat different
in presence of such firm gentleness, and Nicolas trying to
understand an uncomfortable debate between Stalin's horrors
and Jefferson's dreams for his new country.
A
picnic by the shore of a raging stream with scientists and
mathematicians will set exciting contradictions, and a kite
flying game with philosophers and artists would reset many
things into disturbing questions. Would Descartes play with
Picasso? Would Galileo even look at Mozart?
.....Nicolas
wouldn't debate their accomplishments, as the world accepted
them, but wonder about their presence and inner motives and,
knowing now what the consequences have been, would they even
dream of repeating? Answers if any, will be taken with a grain
of salt, humor at best, and fear.
Trying to find home in the rising night, Nicolas understands,
as his weary steps carry him closer to his familiar surroundings,
that the teachers may not be the teachers after all, just
the naïve inspirers of the good things we all carry inside.
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