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The Nonconformists - of Harrison Bergeron

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, a fictional couple living in a future where all have at last been made equal cope with the loss of their son Harrison to the authorities. Harrison has been carried away, probably for disagreeing with the very idea of equality which has him blinded and deafened by goggles and headphones, [...]

The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower

I recently wrote a friend of mine that Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is “awesome” and very much worth reading. She asked me to justify my views, thus:
The Dark Tower - it’s something like a romance, which talks of the last gunslinger Roland Deschain, and his quest to reach the Dark Tower, which is the [...]

It’s a Date

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea,” Honore De Balzac; “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words,” William Shakespeare.
The poetic love-at-first sight concept which hearkens back to medieval tales of knights in shining armor may [...]

On the Merits of Reviewing Late Papers

Dear Professor,
Having given me the chance to write a convincing paper on a topic of my own choosing, I have picked such to be the review of late papers. Your criteria was to absolutely abstain from any talk of getting a higher grade, and I wanted to bluntly state that this has nothing to do [...]

One Of These Days

I recently read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Of These Days, very thought-provoking.
In this striking short story, the author introduces the somewhat laughable character of the Dentist Aurelio Escovar, whose office is poorly furnished and whose clothes are of poor taste. Something in his absentminded but not entirely rational manner seems to suggest that he is [...]

The Works

This is a short little update to let the world know that unlike Amelia Earhart, I haven’t mysteriously disappeared while crossing the ocean of work betwixt one blog post and the next.
I went to see Public Enemies last Friday, and found myself gripped by the human intensity which bled from the silver screen to the [...]

Feeding our Fears

It is widely accepted that reporting media such as newspapers, television news, and radio news bulletins convey a general impression of negativity. Not much is needed to prove this, after all, almost every headline across the world every day features some tragedy or disaster or inadequacy of some kind.
Make no mistake, this is no accident [...]

Grades in College

It suddenly it me what it is the letters must mean in the American grading system;
A for Aced
B for Brilliant
C for Conservative
D for Deficient
E for Excuse Me
F for you FLUNKED
W for Wuss

The Wheelers

Just got through watching Revolutionary Road, a 2008 Leonardo DiCaprio flick of mid-’50s family romance and drama.
I wasn’t particularly in the mood for drama, it’s Friday night after all and DiCaprio movies have a habit of stimulating thought, which may or may not be the best attribute when feeling antisocial and staying inside at the [...]

The World of Advertising

Advertising today is present everywhere we turn. It’s ushered in on the morning news and it keeps us company on the radio when we go to work. When we drive, we read it on the billboards we pass, and on the sides of trucks that pass us. It pops up when we fire up our [...]

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