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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: Get to Know Tom Perrotta
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Sunday, November 25, 2007. Get to Know Tom Perrotta. The following quote comes from a 20 questions segment from Post Road Magazine. I agree with his views on the writing workshop:. Here's what he has to say about the screen adaptation of Election. From an interview at Zulkey. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: "War Prayer" by Mark Twain (1905)
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, November 15, 2007. War Prayer" by Mark Twain (1905). Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword! I come from the Throne - bearing a message from Almighty God! Is it one prayer? Lest without intent you invoke a ...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: August 2007
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Tuesday, August 14, 2007. Jonathon Swift and "A Modest Proposal". I'm sure your first reaction will be 'What the -? Good I mean, you shouldn't take this literally. This is irony, people. Get used to it. Great satire is ironic. I want you all to check out this brief Irish history. Keep in mind, he's Irish. This cl...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: October 2007
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Thursday, October 25, 2007. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. A: fanciful, bizarre b: absurdly incongruous c: departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical. Using the above definitions of grotesque, what passage in the novel comes to mind? Or any instances where...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: November 2007
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, November 29, 2007. In novels, we get more of the inner thoughts (psychology) of the characters. In film, we get the voice-over. I've been told (when writing screenplays) to stay away from the voice-over narration. It can work. It works in Election. Goodfellas. There are other moments in the novel where ...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: He Blinded Me With Science (Fiction)
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Sunday, November 18, 2007. He Blinded Me With Science (Fiction). How do you all feel about Tralfamadore? What do you all think of Tralfamadore and the Tralfamadorian way of life? Do you agree with their philosophies? Which one do you like most? What do you not agree with? Which was 'about people whose mental dise...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: Onion-style Opinion Piece
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Friday, November 16, 2007. It's the Great American Smokeout Day on campus but you'd think the library had been evacuated for some reason. What's going on here? I ask a boy or a girl that looks eternally twelve. It's the Great American Smokeout. We're trying to inform people of the dangers of smoking.". She ran of...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: Kurt Vonnegut
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, November 15, 2007. This comment has been removed by the author. December 13, 2007 at 2:23 PM. It makes me wonder if he has always thought about these weird things or is he just kind of senile. This interview was interesting (we got to see him play ping pong) so all and all, Im content. After I watched t...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: December 2007
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, December 6, 2007. Why do people do this? 11 years later, I found myself asking the same question: Why do people do this? Why am I doing this? I couldn't find a good enough answer, so I quit. I guess that's my two-cents on smoking. I could go into my grandfather losing a lung- and then his life. ...Did a...
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire: Election
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ENG 2070: Dark Comedy and Satire. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."- Kurt Vonnegut. Thursday, November 29, 2007. In novels, we get more of the inner thoughts (psychology) of the characters. In film, we get the voice-over. I've been told (when writing screenplays) to stay away from the voice-over narration. It can work. It works in Election. Goodfellas. There are other moments in the novel where ...