#cal freeman

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In the 1987 film Project X the chimpanzees’ vocalizations were edited out in favor of actors’.  The director, Jonathan Kaplan, thought this would make them more sympathetic. As time passes the film will begin to strike us as quainter or more prescient, or it will be      almost entirely forgotten.

Cal Freeman, “A Brief Essay on Empathy,” published in Reality Hands

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The Weather of Our Names

The Weather of Our Names

It wasn’t exactly a meadow out there beyond the sliding door of my mother’s parents’ den but a large backyard, a double lot with plenty of space for children to play tag or catch, yet if you could excise the subdivision in imagination or at least blot the view of adjacent houses, you could picture an austere and endless meadow. The erasure of the postwar subdivision on winter nights allowed one…

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Join us on November 2 at 10:30 AM for a reading from Oakland University's own Cal Freeman!

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There is no point anymore 

in putting shoulders to the plow.

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from “Fight Song of the Little Horse” by Cal Freeman