Dateline: Dickinson

6 December 2020: Spent the late morning/early afternoon watching a two-hour Dateline (aka, “The Husband Did It”) while pausing at every commercial break to grade a paper from my Emily Dickinson seminar. This led to one of my best ideas ever: Keith Morrison reading Dickinson poems. I should get on that Cameo thing and do impressions of this for $5 a pop.

Variations on a theme: incorporating Dickinson phrases into Dateline episodes...

"This young wife and mother had no time to stop for Death, but he, oh so un-kindly, stopped for her."

"Was this devoted husband telling the plain truth...or was he telling it slant?"

"The story didn't seem to add up. Was this much madness, or Divinest Sense?"

"Something didn't feel right, there, in the back of her mind, was a blue, uncertain, buzzing. Did her son-in-law's story really make sense?"