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Salvaging Epiphanies: March 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010. The Rough-IST of paper ideas. Silence, it's all around us, but we fail to listen and fail to see the epiphany of everyday life. I want to think about this and form my paper around the Epiphanies of Everyday Life, the epiphany of silence and simplicity, solitude, spirituality, and soul. All these are significant parts of our lives that we talk over or push aside for more distracting distractions. To show myself that I too am caught up in a world of noise and the silence is almost d...
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MSU English 494: Indiana Jones, Moab, and Tintern/Edward Abbey
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Thursday, March 4, 2010. Indiana Jones, Moab, and Tintern/Edward Abbey. I have a starting point for my discussion on Tintern Abbey other than the actual text. Does anyone remember that T.V. series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. This exchange of language is one of the most memorable moments of television for me. It's right up there with the first time I watched Highlander The Series. Starts just after 3 minutes. I lean on the side of nature/love creating a religious interpretation. Three differen...
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MSU English 494: Words with Power
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Sunday, February 28, 2010. Northrop Frye is probably the smartest literary critic from last century. In a previous class, Dr. Sexson assigned this book, Words with Power, and it has wowed me ever since. I was very surprised to read out a random quote in class and find it not immediately relevant. Here are some better quotes which are more applicable to our class. Words can never directly transmit to our minds anything that is not verbal. Literature is an art of words. It basically reads as a cliffs notes...
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MSU English 494: Mything in the Lighthouse
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mything in the Lighthouse. Dr Sexson said we could find a mythical interpretation of basically anything the book. So I've randomly selected a page, front and back, to read with a mythical interpretation. How can someone truly select a random page from a book without using random.org? She supposed, looking at the thouse, but nothing appeared there. But then, she remembered"! Nothing appears when we look for it but, once we remember, there it is! Shows her sense of love to be equal ...
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MSU English 494: Epiphany and Love
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Thursday, March 11, 2010. I love this picture that I used in my 2nd post. It really does look like an epiphany to me. What is (mostly) unique to humans and has allowed us to evolve to where we are? The answer is of course "Mythology" but that's besides the point and an entirely different class, even though we've all taken that class before and we just need to remember it, and it is any class we've ever taken with Dr. Mytholo-ah-I-mean-Sexson). Humans are SUPPOSED to be able to do this! She won't marry me?
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MSU English 494: To The Lighthouse
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Sunday, March 7, 2010. To The Lighthouse makes me feel (sea)sick. Third read and I'm still not impressed. To me, it feels like someone turned 90210 into a book and inserted some literary thought. Regardless of the level or value of the literary thought, it's still 90210. In this chapter David learns drugs are bad, Brenda and Dillon have trouble, and Donna makes a new friend! So I still don't like it. Boats float on water, the great metaphor for change. Something we've already studied in other works.
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MSU English 494: MLK Day and 4 Quartets
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010. MLK Day and 4 Quartets. A day late but oh well. We had the day off anyway! There's a passage during The Dry Salvages section 2 which in some fascinating yet haunting way seems to apply to Martin Luther King Jr. and his presence in the American civil rights movement. Starting at line 200,. The point of intersection of the timeless. With time, is an occupation for the saint-. No occupation either, but something given. And taken, in a lifetime's death in love,. Check out this vide...
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Salvaging Epiphanies: I do all this work, and YOU get the degree.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. I do all this work, and YOU get the degree. For someone else who worked half as hard as you to take a job away that you are obviously more qualified for. This town is sadly over educated, and though staying her is my plan (for just a year! I guess it's just not my day today, and I needed to take it out on something, and how wonderful it is to have a blog to do that to, and not on someone that I could potentially hurt. Posted by Lisa of the Little Legs. A Thought in the Air.
