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“What an astonishing thing…”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of...
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We Ain’t No Meltin’ Pot
Go to school. Listen to your teachers. Take good notes. Do your homework. Try hard. Study hard. Get good grades. Go to college. Be successful. This is the system of education in America–it’s all...
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“There are thin…
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
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What Is Story, What Is Life
“What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.” – Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati Last...
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Scratching the Surface
“Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time.” – Elegant Effendi’s corpse, pg 3 One thing that has always fascinated me as a reader is when I re-read or at least...
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In a World of Socialites–Where are the Bookish Ones?
I’d like to start this post simply by mentioning how much I have grown to like the word “bookish,” as I really have grown a liking to it. But, this side note aside, I’ll move on. Not long ago in class,...
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Intellectual Curiosity
Intellectual curiosity is a key component of an English major’s personality. The investment in this idea is what drives us to turn to the next page, finish that chapter and strive to pick up another...
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The Fork in the Road: Chillax
As I think is appropriate in a Senior Seminar class, we’ve been discussing a great deal about futures lately. Specifically, since we are all approaching the big graduation date (only THREE WEEKS (?!)),...
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Ambiguity(?)
Resumes. I don’t know what to do with them and I don’t know what I really think about them. I’m not being silly here–I can and have made myself a pretty professional-level resume and I don’t spend late...
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Disbelief of Atrocity
During a class discussion on Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, one brief moment in our conversation stuck out to me. We mentioned that there was a huge disconnect between the memoir’s lead character and...
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