Marc Stier at Large

I did not recall or remember or know that Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay for Brazil with Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown. That wonderful movie was sadly prescient about where are and where we are going. I’m making a list of things I plan to do once I leave my position in, it appears now, early January. Slowly getting deep into Stoppard’s work is high on that list. Another idea I had yesterday is to do a photo essay on the stone and rock walls that keep Manyunk from tumbling into the Schuylkill. I take a different route home from PT each week to see more of them. And learning how to spell Schuylkill confidently, that is, without checking to make sure I’m right. Not to mention writing a few books. Continue reading