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  1. May 2023
  2. Apr 2023
    1. wherever she is, presides

      Delightful ... He lays it on so thick out of boredom and she reciprocates out of boredom. Where's everyone else? The audience is not audiencing rn

    2. Frank Churchill grew talkative and gay, making her his first object. Every distinguishing attention that could be paid, was paid to her. To amuse her, and be agreeable in her eyes, seemed all that he cared for—and Emma, glad to be enlivened, not sorry to be flattered, was gay and easy too,

      Classic Emma

    3. —Morning decidedly the best time—never tired—every sort good—hautboy infinitely superior—no comparison—the others hardly eatable—hautboys very scarce—Chili preferred—white wood finest flavour of all—price of strawberries in London—abundance about Bristol—Maple Grove—cultivation—beds when to be renewed—gardeners thinking exactly different—no general rule—gardeners never to be put out of their way—delicious fruit—only too rich to be eaten much of—inferior to cherries—currants more refreshing—only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping—glaring sun—tired to death—could bear it no longer—must go and sit in the shade.”

      The best sentence ever... an example of free indirect discourse used to play into Mrs. Elton's role as a comedic character for comedic effect.

    4. It was so long since Emma had been at the Abbey, that as soon as she was satisfied of her father’s comfort, she was glad to leave him, and look around her; eager to refresh and correct her memory with more particular observation, more exact understanding of a house and grounds which must ever be so interesting to her and all her family.

      This property might go to little Henry

    5. Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

      Harriet has the qualities that men are after, says Emma. Men are shallow, says Emma... and she's not wrong.

    6. It would be a degradation.” “A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!”

      Different interpretations of status in a status based society reveal how fluid the notion of status even is

  3. Mar 2023
    1. The vertical power structures typical to instances of reading are replaced with a more horizontal structure, wherein the film itself is the authority, and that authority (through the narrator of the Lorax) speaks to both children and adults.

      the film operates more rhizomatically

    1. all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe!

      Nature is more art than art itself. Nature is perfect.

      Kant might agree Hegel would not

    2. how readily she falls in with the inclination of others

      He wants her to fall into his own inclination. She comes when she's called and that is desirable in a woman to be sure.

    3. “Don’t be affronted,” said she, laughing, “but it does put me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes, who, after performing great exploits in a foreign land, offered sacrifices to the gods on their safe return.”

      Making humor of the case

    1. “it is understandablethat the darker themes of these novels can easily have them marked as being for adults only, butit is important to note that the reading age for these is fitting for high school students. It’s alsoimportant to keep in mind that some students already deal with some of these darker themes inlife.”

      This!!!

  4. Feb 2023
    1. This semester, students are reading Death of a Salesman, Wuthering Heights, and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. As she explained in a TikTok about her lesson plan, she will have her students write an original thesis statement in class about the text they're reading. Then, the class will use ChatGPT to generate essays based on that thesis statement. (To sidestep the school's ChatGPT blockade, Gibson will use her own device to generate the essays.) Students must then take apart and improve upon the ChatGPT-generated essay—an exercise designed to teach critical analysis, the craft of precise thesis statements, and a feel for what “good writing” looks lik

      This is cool!

    1. Why so? Ithink they are trivial because Heart of Darkness is so difficult to read, that whatI want - what I imagine we all want - is interpretive speculation commensuratewith that difficulty.

      Ok fuck this guy

    2. When my students say in class - as they are apt to doin the United States - that "everyone is entitled to their opinion," I often respondto them by saying, "but there are not six billion opinions on any issue, but rathera limited number of opinions - based, usually, on a limited number of concep-tual frameworks, pragmatic priorities, and aesthetic taxonomies which are, nec-essarily, reiterated again and again."

      This is stupid

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  5. canvas.ou.edu canvas.ou.edu
    1. Indeed, the heroine Becky (played by Dana Wynter) inadvertently reveals her humanity to the pod creatures by her concern for a dog dashing out into the street. People and animals are linked by the bonds of sentiment. What’s in it for plants? Precisely, it would seem, nothing.

    2. In the story, this attribution of a cold and ruthless survivalism to the vegetal simulacra (or pods) works not to call into question human behavior but instead to highlight humanity itself as in possession of a unique ethical responsibility to the members of its own species, defined in strikingly homogenous terms.

    3. Absence of need becomes productivity of form; a quality that registers as a deficiency in metaphysics reappears as a welcome excess in film. Plants have long been ideally<br /> suited, as it turns out, for impersonation.

    4. Doctor, the function of life is to live if it can, and no other motive can ever be allowed to interfere with that. There is no malice involved; did you hate the buffalo?