[Eleanor] This is Eleanor Sulley
I'm glad to bring you Alta,
who I think will read a prose piece,
or part of a prose piece,
and then perhaps some poetry
And Alta has an accompanist,
a liberated flutist by the name of Curly Hummingbird
Alright, Alta
[flute music begins] {Alta Gerrey} So one of the things I discovered in the women's movement
And I've discovered every time I get into a movement
is that I can't pinpoint the enemy.
And the women's movement was very handy because
if the enemies men, then you knew right away
when you look at somebody, most people (giggle) and uh, It just simplified my life tremendously.
(laughing)
So then I discovered that that was wrong again
and this came out of that.
No enemies- the life force did not have to be a death force.
How can I say that when ... is in the hands of men who wanted to .....?
How can I say that when I saw .... shock treatment?
Of course I have enemies, don't I?
Don't we?
People who wanted to destroy us, aren't they the enemies?
We must be their enemies or they would not want to destroy us.
Already there's a flaw- who is whose enemy first'?
Were thy mine or was I thine?
When I was a kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot so I could kill "Japs".
They were my enemy; Germans were too, but I didn't hear about them because I was German.
Sono Eleanor Sully e sono felice di presentarvi Alta
che penso ci leggerà un pezzo in prosa o meglio parte di una prosa e poi forse della poesia
e Alta ha un accompagnatrice Curly Hummingbird, una flautista emancipata.
bene, Alda:
Una cosa che ho scoperto nei movimenti femministi
e che riscopro ogni volta che entro a far parte di un movimento è che non posso identificare il nemico
e il movimento femminista era molto utile perché se il nemico è uomo allora lo riconosci
con uno sguardo e questo ha reso la mia vita molto più semplice.
(Ride) Poi però mi sono dovuta ricredere ancora una volta
perché ho capito che non c'erano nemici, la forza vitale non doveva essere una forza distruttrice.
Come posso dirle che è nelle mani dell'uomo che la vuole distruggere,