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about me
I am a grad student of literature and a Les Miserable fanatic. FANATIC. I'm absolutely loving school but find I want to do and write and learn even MORE. It's very energizing and stimulating although I find the more education I receive the more ignorant those around me appear. This is an aggravating transition. Do they make a pill to make the people around you appear less irritating? Where can I get a prescription?
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Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (blog entry) One of the books assigned for my summer class on African American Women Writers is Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'. If one is familiar with black souther dialect this book encircles the reader with the texture of an entire world. Here a... read more
blog entry posted Sat, June 9, 2007 - 10:16 AM permalink - 0 comments
Favorite lines (blog entry) The writing on 'The Riches' is so great that I often want to write it down. Now I've found the space to do it! If you find this amusing you can join my tribe: I Want to be as Badass as 'The Riches'.

Background: The wife Dehlia is a long-tim... read more
blog entry posted Sat, May 26, 2007 - 9:20 AM permalink - 0 comments
The Vampire Lestat (blog entry) Before I get going on my favorite quotes from the book I feel a need to express my overall impression. I liked it yet if I had been the editor I would have chopped 150 pages off the end. The history Rice is attempting to convey is so dense and d... read more
blog entry posted Wed, May 23, 2007 - 2:57 PM permalink - 0 comments
Sartre: 'What Is Literature? Why Write?' (blog entry) "... the characteristic of aesthetic consciousness is to be a belief by means of commitment, by oath, a belief sustained by fidelity to one's self and to the author, a perpetually renewed choice to believe. I can awaken at every moment, and I kno... read more
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Victor Hugo: Memoirs (blog entry) "When the known is so odious, how can they help loving the unknown?"

[Here he is talking about women who fall in love with men who are in prison!]

"...it is because she does not know him that she loves him. Idolatry is born of mystery."

... read more
blog entry posted Mon, May 7, 2007 - 2:37 PM permalink - 0 comments
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Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
One of the books assigned for my summer class on African American Women Writers is Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'. If one is familiar with black souther dialect this book encircles the reader with the texture of an entire world. Here are some of my favorite passages.

Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions,... read more
Sat, June 9, 2007 - 10:16 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
Favorite lines
The writing on 'The Riches' is so great that I often want to write it down. Now I've found the space to do it! If you find this amusing you can join my tribe: I Want to be as Badass as 'The Riches'.

Background: The wife Dehlia is a long-time drug user. Her husband Wayne hates not only the fact that his wife does drugs but hides it from him. When Wayne finds Dehlia on the bathroom floor with a bag of white powder he grabs the heavy baggy from her, dumps it all into the palm of his han... read more
Sat, May 26, 2007 - 9:20 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
The Vampire Lestat
Before I get going on my favorite quotes from the book I feel a need to express my overall impression. I liked it yet if I had been the editor I would have chopped 150 pages off the end. The history Rice is attempting to convey is so dense and detailed that toward the end it gave me the sense of reading a Bible entry where So-n-so begat so-n-so and so-n-so fathered A, B, and C. Although Rice did her best to keep it interesting, the length and depth were still exhausting. I felt I'd run a ... read more
Wed, May 23, 2007 - 2:57 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Sartre: 'What Is Literature? Why Write?'
"... the characteristic of aesthetic consciousness is to be a belief by means of commitment, by oath, a belief sustained by fidelity to one's self and to the author, a perpetually renewed choice to believe. I can awaken at every moment, and I know it; but I do not want to; reading is a free dream.

"...by a reversal which is the characteristic of the imaginary object, it is not his behaviour which excites my indignation or esteem, but my indignation and esteem which give consistency and ob... read more
Mon, May 7, 2007 - 5:55 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Victor Hugo: Memoirs
"When the known is so odious, how can they help loving the unknown?"

[Here he is talking about women who fall in love with men who are in prison!]

"...it is because she does not know him that she loves him. Idolatry is born of mystery."

"The eye of the woman damned languourously seeks Satan among the myrtles. What is this phenomenon? It is the need of the ideal. A sublime and awful need. A terrible thing, I say.
Is is a disease? Is it a remedy? Both. This noble yearning is a... read more
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