Song of a Reformed Headhunter

Finalized and posted my review of Tan Pin Pin's documentary In Time to Come on SP blog. Heard Eric Calatayud sing and Kenny play on the keyboard with their band in the common garden on 122nd Street. Jazz standards and Beatles songs. They were very good. Left early to hear Cheryl A. Wall speak about the women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She was a good speaker, concise and perceptive. Her manner was stately. I asked her a question about Tea Cake slapping Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . She referred me to Alice Walker's observation that Janie does not speak in that chapter although she does in all other chapters. The novel does, implicitly, criticize Tea Cake's action.

For Zora Neale Hurston  She was not happy/with fences.           Alice Walker, “Mississippi Winter II” Her Florida was in the South back when the South was still the South. She took her degree in the North but took her studies to the South. She caught in books the black dialect, unlettered poetry of the South. To find a lost society, a vanished place, south of the South, down, down, to Honduras she went as if there were no end to south.  There was an end. She found her place in a wild Garden in the South. Heroic Maid, the unmarked grave is a free tribute from the South.