2) If religion were to disappear, what would you want to replace it? Literature. What is religion but a constant? I grew up in a secular household. My mother presented the idea of God and Christianity to me, but we never went to church. It makes sense, then, that I became so obsessed with reading. [...]
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My Heart
Posted in Crisis, Novel class, Reading, Writing, tagged poetry, randy robertson, religion, skepticism on January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Salman or Salmon?
Posted in Crisis, Novel class, tagged novel, randy robertson, salman rushdie, salmon on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’re welcome, Novel Class
Posted in Novel class, tagged Novel class, randy roberston, twitterature on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To: Randy Robertson From: Elizabeth Morris Subject: Tweets Dear Randy, As I’ve been finding no time to tweet (reading and writing the paper) I did some quick math to try to dissuade you from making us tweet the entire novel. 1) Let’s say we tweet 120 chapters of the 135 chapter (plus extracts and epiloque [...]
Tweet, tweet, tweet
Posted in Novel class, tagged herman melville, moby dick, Novel class, penguin books, randy robertson on October 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ll keep updating this until I get the entire way through. One of each is me seriously trying to summarize it, one is me doing it so that I might vent my frustrations about how terribly angry this all makes me. Not necessarily the fact that dear Randy assigned it so much as that it [...]
Turning and Turning
Posted in Crisis, Novel class, Reading, tagged college, Crisis, frankenstein, mary shelley, philosophy, skitolsky, things fall apart, yeats on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
If we are so privileged, why are these things so hard? This guy. I’m picking up a philisophy minor ala Kelsey, Wall, and I believe Blankinship? “We like to have concrete answers, and Shelley provides us with none.” I think I’m going to write my Novel paper about Hobbes in Frankenstein. “You keep talking about [...]
Wait a second, why is Paradise Lost a novel again?
Posted in Crisis, Novel class, tagged college, frankenstein, malachi black, paradise lost, plato, shelley on October 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So I started reading Frankenstein and remembered that I hated this book when I read it when I was 17. I’m working on not hating it now, but its hard not to hate a book when some chick just sat around a a fire and got super intoxicated and then wrote all day. That’s impression [...]
Footnoted
Posted in Novel class, tagged Abby, clementine divine, Girls from the River School, grandfather, nadia, randy robertson, Tara toms, thai tea, Tom Bailey on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
[Note: This may have just been one of the most self-serving things I've ever done. I'm only getting away with it because I have to for novel.] [Dr. Robertson, if this isn't what you wanted, please tell me. Either way, I had fun doing it.] (This is a love poem for Tara Elizabeth-Lynn.)[1] CLEMENTINE DIVINE[2] [...]
Friday’s Lipogrammed Journal
Posted in Novel class, tagged crusoe, lipogram, Novel class, randy robertson, robinson on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
#1 Freedom I was willing. Laying this scalp against clay was a thanks. That was anguish. King C.—knight in shining skins. #2 Name Who? I? Lips to soil, Lord C told of a sixth sol circuit. I is for your flock. #3 His God My maker crumble. RC mark a pure text, a man/pa/fume cut [...]
A Translation from Augusten Burroughs to Daniel Defoe
Posted in Novel class, tagged childhood dreams, cornelius, friday, lies, Novel class, robinson crusoe on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The bookshelves of mine, which were of a high quality, glossy with a sheen that reflected light much as glass does, were lined with the various trinkets and, in my mind, treasures that I had collected over the years. There are cans now empty, their papers removed to let them shine, this shine enhanced by [...]
Robinson
Posted in Novel class, tagged novel, randy robert, robinsoncrusoe on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“From: Roberston, Randy To:”09FA-ENGL-265-W2″ Subject: Crusoe – postscript: 09FA-ENGL-265-W2 Hint: the narrative in Robinson Crusoe picks up considerably when Crusoe finds something unexpected on the island (p. 112 in the Norton edition).” Dr. Robertson makes me feel like I’m playing a logic puzzle computer game. “Stuck with the pad lock on the cellar door? Look [...]
