Casualness… more like stalkiness.
As I read “Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way” I can’t help but to think that I have reached point where I want to choke the narrator. Why you may ask? Simply, the frustration I have for all...
View ArticleDeath to!
I wanted to go back to talking about the Death of the author essay and what I believe is David Foster Wallace’s attempts to try and insert the author in his works. Death of the authir basically argues...
View ArticleBizarre
Reading “Yet Another Example of The Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)” I could not help but burst out laughing hysterically. It just brought back so many scenes of movies, books where they child...
View ArticleBrief..
Something I came across. Apparently Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has been made into a movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790627/
View ArticleInfinity
Math has never been one of my strong points in school and I guess it has to do with the lack of objectivity that I think exists within it. Now I’m not a math major and taking Calculus right now is...
View ArticleAA in our culture
I want to revert back to our conversation on freedom and the role that AA has: is AA a form of freedom from the addiction or simply another form of addiction? And even more so, when did AA and other...
View ArticleStatistics
As I began reading the first story of Oblivion, I saw numbers and was right away put off. “Another book on math? Again? Ugh!” My first impression was that we would be going through another story about...
View ArticleVanity
It seems everyone is talking about Good Old Neon because of the obvious societal critiques it makes and i want to continue with that talk with another story, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature....
View ArticleAuthority and the Usage…
“Authority and American Usage” was to me, one of the funniest stories in Consider The Lobster. The snoot of a character that we are presented with was comical in the way he expressed his love for...
View ArticleThis became a stream of consciousness
I wanted to talk about the last two stories that we didn’t get to discuss last Monday from Consider the Lobster which were “The View from Ms. Thompson’s” and “The Host.” These were some of my favorite...
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