In an attempt to come up with something more substantial for my last blog post than I’ve done with other blogposts I did a general search on the internet for The Brief Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao. Of course, one of the first links to pop up is a wikipedia article about the this novel… Continue reading The short but possibly pleasant comparison of two characters
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I retract my argument
During Thursday’s class I was an avid supporter of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close not being magical realism to the point that I logged onto our blog to comment on the post about it possibly being a psychological realism in order to disagree and put the book in an undefinable area. However, I have since… Continue reading I retract my argument
It’s a Wonder We Can Sleep
The engine, tires on road, computers, ipods, the occasional CD player for those that refuse to switch or lack money to do so, talking, snoring, breathing bodies in almost every seat. I, myself, am wearing headphones on this double decker monstrosity of a bus. Regardless of my blocked ears I can still hear everything. There’s… Continue reading It’s a Wonder We Can Sleep
Paper!
I began by searching for what I thought were interesting words, but google books continuously gave me insignificant results. So then I decided to search for something simple. Paper. A rather ordinary object in our lives, paper’s key role in our day to day lives seems to go unnoticed. After plugging in the word paper and… Continue reading Paper!
No Breaks for Politics
It’s interesting that even during the midst of possible human annihilation the issue of politics still keeps it’s firm grip on the characters in the book. We see this with Senator Jellison’s visit to General Bambridge as well as through the interactions between the four astronauts in Hammerlab. Of course, in the case of Senator… Continue reading No Breaks for Politics