Pun Intended: Class Log & Discussions: Religion

"It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.'

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut the scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declaritive sentence I had written."

- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Religion

July 20, 2007

Ready for the weekend!

Today I passed out progress reports, (thank God for excel!), and allowed time to catch up on some missed work. Then we read the short story "Much Ado About (Censored)" from the collection entitled 2041. We paired this with a fine selection of palete cleansing texts concerning censorship and its role in the world we live in, vintage NCAA as well as some pro-censorship motherships, I mean web sites. Good discussion, guys! We had quite a few written questions following this, so we had time to work on that, and then closed with a few poems by the amazing Adrienne Rich. We also got to read a little bit of A Long Way Gone. See y'all Monday!

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