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  1. Oct 2018
    1. radle. The serpent said to them, " I have now done all that I can do for you. I have no more business here, for I am an angel sent by God, and I am goin

      interesting that a serpent would be used as an angel sent by God given that an serpent lead eve to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge.

    2. nd said, "Which should you like best to see, your sons dead, or your bro

      what is this crazy nonsense???? serpent giant and powerful, helping marquita, since she grew it form infancy. has senssing power and can give powers to others, knows rituals to bring back the dead

    3. The king acknowledged his mistake, and felt very sorry for having killed so unjustly the brothers; he married Mariquita, and ordained great royal

      so the moral of the story is to verfiy facts? not to act rashly?

    4. very singular sister, for when she laughs she lets fall fine pearls; when she washes her hands, the water next day changes into a block of silver; and when she combs her hair, the hair that falls off becomes golden thr

      why do they use the term singular? and if so how does it relate to her powers?

  2. Sep 2018
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    1. Gilligan here offers us a brief story of ideas with Freud at its center. More important, to describe his plan of work, Gilligan needs to say something about Freud’s aims, methods, and materials. This allows her, in her brief ac-count of his essay, both to honor his project and to begin to point to some of its problems

      this helped me realize the main subject of the previous paragraphs

    2. The fi rst thing I’d note about this passage is its generosity. Gilligan is describing a view that she feels is deeply fl awed, that indeed she is writing her book in an effort to correct, but her goal here seems to be to offer an account of Freud’s thinking that he might have himself agreed with. Even the problem with his theory that she points out is one that Freud himself recognized, as Gilligan makes clear by quoting his comment about women remaining a “dark continent” for psychology. T

      what am I supposed to get from this

    3. defi ning projects, noting keywords, assessing uses and limits—stay the same

      definitely reminds me of cline, and identifying who the author is, what type of text it is, and who the author is addressing

    4. you need to be able to restate what she or he has to say in your own terms,

      this pops up a lot, restate, or use your own definition, own sentence to convey the same meaning, is the main focus on giving credit to the authors and using paraphrasing?

    5. Coming to Terms 15which is that to understand a text you need, in a way, to rewrite it

      ohhh, is this similar to taking apart something just to put it back together to understand how it works?

    6. since one is no longer reading a romantic novel from an-other time and place but a contemporary text written as if it were such a work.

      is this a book version of inception

    7. What makes this goal interesting, and more than a little crazy, is that Menard doesn’t want simply to copy or transcribe the Quixotebut instead “to produce a number of pages which coincided—word for word and line for line—with those of Miguel de Cervantes.”

      how would one accomplish that? isnt that plagiarism

    8. A few weeks ago my old friend Dick Lower sent me this huge pile of paper, saying that, as I am a voracious collector of curios and such-like, perhaps I should have it. . . . How is a mere chronicler such as myself to transmute the lead of inaccuracy in these papers into the gold of truth?—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be mas-ter—that’s all.”—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

      do the two quotes relate to each other?