Woke up craving Leonard Schlain’s The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. Too bad the book is lying flat in a cardboard box somewhere in a Stamford, Connecticut storage unit. Damn. I read it once during a summer in college, twice in my 20′s and now I’m 31 and I need it again… pronto.
But this time, as a woman who spends her days with the alphabet, I want to say, “But Leonard, I want to be the goddess and the alphabet.”
His daughter made a beautiful film about the internet age and her hunger for connection and disconnection, all of it intertwined with the news that Leonard was dying and she was also giving birth and how she coped with it all.
http://connectedthefilm.com/
I know!!! Love that.