Broadside

“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”- Prophetic Vision style

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Broadside- hit directly from the side

Ex: *Motivational speaker steps up to the podium to deliver his speech to the packed auditorium*

“Do you know what a book like One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish will do to a color blind, dyslexic kids’ confidence!? My preschool years were terrible! It was like I had been broadsided by a life-sized toy Tonka truck. My brain was scrambled. For years I had nightmares that I was stuck in a Seussian dreamscape with little Lorax-like creatures who repeated digits over and over ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6’. They teased me for my lack of numerical processing skills. At the end of every dream The Cat in the Hat would appear and announce in some weirdly proud proclamation that I was, ‘safe here’, that I could ‘relax’, since there were ‘no stereotypical cartoon illustrations of Jews and blacks like in many of Theodore Geisel’s early works’. That didn’t put me at ease! That only made me more fearful of Dr. Seuss’ morally ambiguous messaging and how it was interfering with my personal development. But eventually, those dreams subsided. I learned numbers from watching the Count on Sesame Street, with the only side effect being that I now dressed like a metrosexual Hungarian flutist. I learned colors from, well, I couldn’t really learn colors, but after studying some of Dr. Seuss’ early illustrations, I was able to identify certain facial characteristics of people I wanted to avoid on the streets. So, what I’m telling you is, you may be dealt a bad hand in life, but don’t let that discourage you! Even Hellen Keller learned to say wawa and to treat the ‘helpers’ in her house as lesser!”

*Many people from the audience are seen wheeling their wheelchairs or guiding themselves with walking sticks out into the lobby*