Liana Finck
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82 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2022
last heard 26 Jun
Liana Finck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It surprised me how few changes I needed to make to the original text, which is sparse and ancient and lends itself well to interpretation.
For example, the Bible opens in this mysterious, moody way, with God floating aimlessly on the face of a dark, mysterious void.
In my version, I have her floating this way because she's feeling despondent about her limitations as an artist.
She's made this messy, wet, mixed-up, dark first draft of the world, and she just doesn't know where to go from here.
My version of God doesn't know exactly what she's doing, but she draws a horizon line and things start to fall into place.
She banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, not because they disobeyed her, but because by eating the apple and becoming wise, she feels they've outgrown the world she created for them, and she needs to let them go.
She scatters the builders of the Tower of Babel, not because she's threatened by their power, but because, like any introvert, she needs her privacy.
When she destroys the world in the story of Noah, it's not because she's incensed with mankind, but because she's incensed with herself.
She knows she could have done a better job when she made us.
My adaptation of the book of Genesis is a creation story full of false starts and absurdities.
But it's a creation story all the same.
One in which a self-conscious woman, even though she worries and makes mistakes, is nonetheless a successful, committed artist.
When I finished my book, I did feel a new connection to the God of the Torah and a new sense of belonging to my religion.
I also felt a new sense of belonging, period.
It's lonely being someone who has no idea how to act normal, but it's profoundly less lonely being that person in a world created for her by an equally awkward, self-conscious God.
These days, when I worry that I won't know what to make for dinner, I remind myself that God wouldn't know either.
This gives me the confidence to embrace my cluelessness and just wing it.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
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