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    Thus Saith Eve
    Thus Saith Eve
    Thus Saith Eve
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    Thus Saith Eve

    By Chris Wind

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    Eve should be blamed for choosing the apple? For choosing knowledge over obedience? Knowledge of good and evil? She thinks not. Mary insists she be recognized for who she is--the mother of God. And, well, you can imagine what Noah’s wife had to say about his grand idea.

    Nineteen epistles in all. Not only good reading, but also well-suited for auditions.

    “In this book the voices and personalities of women such as Noah’s wife, Mary of Bethany, Zipporah, and Vashti are reimagined in an exciting and empowering way. ... As in her other works, Wind uses historical people, events, and understandings to build a truly wonderful source of feminist fiction. In addition to being an extremely enjoyable and thought provoking read, the monologues can also be used for audition and performance pieces. ..." Katie M. Deaver, feminismandreligion.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781926891057
    Thus Saith Eve
    Author

    Chris Wind

    Visit my website (http://www.chriswind.net) for more info.This is what happens is her latest work: How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera’s Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?"An incisive reflection on how social forces constrain women’s lives. ... Great for fans of Sylvia Plath, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook." Booklife/Publishers' WeeklySoliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest is a collection of soliloquies delivered by Shakespeare's women, protesting the role given to them. The soliloquies formed the basis of a recent theatrical production, "Not Such Stuff", by Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland, and have also been used as audition pieces by many aspiring actresses. High school English teachers might also be interested in using the soliloquies in their Shakespeare units.Thus Saith Eve is the second in a series of ebooks featuring women from various traditions. In "Thus Saith Eve", women from The Bible deliver critiques of their stories -- as if they had a feminist consciousness.UnMythed is the third in the series. This collection of poems reveals the myths within the myths revealed: what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy? For poetry fans, especially feminist; of interest to scholars of Greek and Roman mythology; a good resource for English teachers who teach a Mythology unit.Deare Sister is the fourth in the series, a collection of letters that might have been written by by Lady Godiva, Milton's daughter, Rubens' model, Mozart's mother, Freud's wife, Plato's students, and others -- assuming a feminist consciousness. (What would they say?)Snow White Gets Her Say, the last in the series, is a collection of the classic fairy tales retold - what would have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?The five ebook collections above appear in a single book (available in print as well as e-formats) titled Satellites Out of Orbit.dreaming of kaleidoscopes is a selected 'best of' collection of wind's poetry spanning about fifteen years from the poet's late teens in the 70s to her early thirties in the 90s.Paintings and Sculptures is a collection of feminist and socially conscious poetry, each piece describing a painting or a sculpture: some, a re-vision of a classic; others, an original work not yet realized. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dali, Botticelli, Monet, Rodin are among the artists whose work is re-imagined.Particivision and other stories is a collection of short stories presenting a socially conscious critique of various issues in our society by re-visioning significant attitudes and activities: watching tv, going to school, shopping, advertising, hunting, environmentalism, militarism, suicide, the news, competition, sex, religion, government. Social commentary and activism via fiction.Excerpts is a miscellaneous collection of early prose and poetry.***Actors looking for fresh, new audition pieces -- check out Soliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest (Shakespeareanesque soliloquies with a twist), Thus Saith Eve (monologues), Deare Sister, and Snow White Gets Her Say.Also, "Amelia's Nocturne" (see http://www.chriswind.com/for_ Amelia.htm) can be performed as a theatrical piece: a simple set consisting of a writing table with an inkwell and note paper, the music (live piano and voice in the corner) woven into the monologue.Painters and sculptors -- I've been looking for the longest time for artists to 'actualize' the paintings and sculptures in Paintings and Sculptures for exhibit...if anyone's interested, contact me!English teachers – consider using Soliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest for your Shakespeare unit and UnMythed for your myths unit.Women's history scholars -- you might be interested in Deare Sister.***chris wind has degrees in Literature, Education, and Philosophy.Her poetry has been published in Alpha, The Antigonish Review, Ariel, Atlantis, Bite, Bogg, Canadian Author and Bookman, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Woman Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, The Free Verse Anthology, Girlistic Magazine, grain, Interior Voice, Kola, Mamashee, The New Quarterly, Next Exit, Onionhead, Poetry Toronto, Prism International, Rampike, Shard, The University of Toronto Review, The Wascana Review, Whetstone, White Wall Review, Women's Education des femmes, and three anthologies (Clever Cats, ed. Ann Dubras; Going for Coffee, ed. Tom Wayman; Visions of Poesy, ed. Dennis Gould). “Luncheon on the Grass" was the motive poem for an exhibit by Brooks Bercovitch and Colton at the Galerie Schorer, Montreal (1998).Her prose has been read on CBC Radio and published in ACT, Alpha, American Atheist, The Antigonish Review, Canadian Woman Studies, event, Existere, (f.)Lip, Herizons, Herstoria, The Humanist, Humanist in Canada, Hysteria, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, Secular Nation, and Waves.Her theatrical works have been performed by Laurel Theater, Alumnae Theatre, Theatre Resource Center, Theatre Asylum, Buddies in Bad Times, and A Company of Sirens.chris wind has received thirteen Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve grants based on publisher and theatre recommendation.chris wind was a panellist at the Canadian National Feminist Poetry Conference (Winnipeg, 1992), and featured in an article in The Montreal Gazette (1994).Lastly, chris wind is listed in “Who’s Who in Hell” (probably because of “Faith,” “The Great Jump-Off,” and Thus Saith Eve).

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      The narrators in Thus Saith Eve all sound like whiny adolescents. Definitely not worth the twenty minutes it took to read. Received via Member Giveaway.
    • 5/5
      This little book finally gives the women of the Bible license to speak, and speak they do! A cantankerous bunch on the whole, yet their contributions (as true as they may be) left me ROFLing. Our Bible, I’m now convinced, is much the poorer for its women being silenced.There are nineteen chapters, nineteen women in all who get to have their say. Technically speaking, only fifteen of the nineteen speakers are “women of the Bible.” Two are extra-canonical, one is a dastardly angel (we call “her” Satan), and one is … well, I was equally astonished to learn that Abel, son/daughter of Adam, also made the feminine list. Can’t say I didn’t learn anything from this book.My favorite was Noah’s wife. Poor thing, with a ship the size of the football field to clean, and animal excrement everywhere. Yet, she seems quite able to hold her own, and as she rightly points out, if the whole creation was destroyed by a flood, then she is mother to us all. (What she leaves unsaid is whether or not Adam is the father of us all … hmmm.)Short, but definitely entertaining … and serious between the lines.

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    Thus Saith Eve - Chris Wind

    THUS SAITH EVE

    chris wind

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    Thus Saith Eve

    Copyright 1991, 2011 by chris wind

    www.chriswind.net

    Cover concept and design by chris wind

    Formatting and layout design by Elizabeth Beeton

    wind, chris

    Thus Saith Eve / chris wind

    ISBN 978-1-926891-05-7

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    All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

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    also by chris wind

    UnMythed

    Deare Sister

    Soliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest

    Snow White Gets Her Say

    Satellites Out of Orbit*

    Particivision and other stories

    Paintings and Sculptures

    Excerpts

    dreaming of kaleidoscopes

    Thus Saith Eve is available in print as part of chris wind’s Satellites Out of Orbit (2nd edition), titled Epistles.

    * Satellites Out of Orbit contains the four books listed above it as well as this book.

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    A performance version of I am Eve (notes for theatrical delivery of the text as a monologue set to an audio collage which can be heard at www.chriswind.net—see The Art of Juxtaposition) is available from the author (chriswind3@gmail.com). I am Mary, Mother of God is available as an audio piece on the same album.

    * * * * *

    Acknowledgements

    I am Mary, of Bethany Secular Nation 2008

    I am Mary, Mother of God Secular Nation 2008

    I am Zipporah Humanist May/Jun 2000, vol.60 no.3; Humanist in Canada Spring 1995

    I am Noah’s Wife Humanist in Canada Spring 1997; Other Voices Fall 1989, vol.2 no.2

    I am Eve Humanist in Canada Winter 1993/94

    I am Eshta Humanist in Canada Spring 1993

    I am Sheba Humanist in Canada Winter 1992/93

    I am Delilah Humanist in Canada Jul/Sep 1992

    An earlier version of Thus Saith Eve appeared as I am in the first edition of Satellites Out of Orbit.

    CONTENTS

    Eve

    Lilith

    Abel

    Cain’s wife

    Noah’s wife

    Hagar

    Zipporah

    the certain woman

    Delilah

    Eshta

    Ruth

    The Queen of Sheba

    Vashti

    Judith

    Mary, mother of God

    Mary, of Bethany

    Mary Magdalen

    Thecla

    Satan

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    Appendix

    All of the women in Thus Saith Eve are from The Bible, a book central to Judaeo-Christianity, the main religious tradition of ‘western civilization’. Lilith is the one exception; she comes from other Jewish mythology.

    There is an appendix at the end of the book containing, for each piece, a summary of the story as told in The Bible, relevant Biblical references, and references to material which contradicts or extends or questions the story, some of which I used when writing the pieces.

    All references to The Bible are to The Holy Bible, King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1977.

    I am Eve

    the bad girl, the evil woman.

    I stand accused, and sentenced. Without a trial. For life.

    Because of my single action, millions of individuals have been born with ‘original sin’, have been guilty even before they acted, doomed before they started. I alone have been held responsible[1] for this sad and pathetic fallen race. Therefore, let me begin by correcting this: if I were free not to fall in the first place, they were free not to fall after me; and if I were not free, then I can’t be held responsible—for my fall or theirs.

    Now, let us further examine the charges, let us correctly define that action.

    I have been condemned for choosing knowledge over ignorance: the fruit I ate came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In a society that praises pursuit of knowledge and honours men of wisdom, why have I been viewed with disfavour? Had Adam reached out first, would he have been so rebuked? Or is the state of ignorance requisite for women only? (Histories pass on Socrates, they pass over Aspasia.)

    In the same vein, I chose experience over innocence. In a context of attitudes that value experience, the disapproval of my action can only imply the desire that women, like children, live in a state of innocence.

    I have also been condemned for disobedience. If that were the issue, then why wasn’t the tree so named—‘the tree of obedience and disobedience’ or ‘the tree of temptation’. By naming it what it was not, God either deliberately tempted me or deliberately deceived me. And he should be judged, not I.

    Perhaps though, the tree really was a tree

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