“One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.” IfsMomentsStyleSpeechApproachDinnerAddressesTomsChattingGettysburgGettysburg AddressGreat Speech Author:Neil Genzlinger
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.” PeopleIfsDifferentMomentsCan DoConsciousnessSubjectsPossibilityIgnoranceDeeperDebateAddressesSomething NewPoolPausesAngleEntrancesTotalityDurationGazingDifferent AnglesPausing Author:Seamus Heaney