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MY INNER BLACKADDER.

May 24, 2009 at 8:45 PM · Uncategorized

MY INNER BLACKADDER. When I watch the Blackadder series, I am continually surprised by the harsh way that Blackadder speaks to his servant Baldrick. Most people don’t speak to others in that way. I don’t–with one exception. I think and say things to myself–all the time–that are as harsh as anything that Blackadder says. Annalisa says she does the same thing–and when she saw it, she hastened to show me this article by Deanna Kizis. Kizis describes her own ruthless inner voice and how she has learned to quash it–a very hard thing to do.