"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes."
Dust Tracks on a Road, by Zora Neale Hurston
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
From Zadie Smith's On Beauty
"To enact with one sudden tug (like a boy removing his friend's shorts in front of the opposing team) a complete exposure, a cataclysmic embarrassment - this is one of the purest academic pleasures" (29).
Friday, June 5, 2009
From A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book
A lovely quote from The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, on the joys of putting together a syllabus:
"There is a particular aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board" (119).
"There is a particular aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board" (119).
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Commonplace Book, Entry 1
From Trinh T. Minh-ha's Woman Native Other:
"In a sense, committed writers are the ones who write both to awaken to the consciousness of their guilt and to give their readers a guilty conscience" (10-11).
"In a sense, committed writers are the ones who write both to awaken to the consciousness of their guilt and to give their readers a guilty conscience" (10-11).
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