David Foster Wallace on Americans
“There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group.” —David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
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The new Pizza oven
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John Milton on Censorship
“Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.”
Ralph Ellison on Living
“That is the real soul-sickness, the spear in the side, the drag by the neck through the mob-angry town, the Grand Inquisition, the embrace of the Maiden, the rip in the belly with the guts spilling out, the trip to the chamber with the deadly gas that ends in the oven so hygienically clean – […]
Invisible Man Discussion Test
These are some of the questions we’ll consider for our discussion test over Invisible Man. Remember, we are meeting at the Bagel Company on 11th Ave. Irving Howe reviewed Invisible Man in 1952, and wrote, “Though immensely gifted, Ellison is not a finished craftsman. The tempo of his book is too feverish, and at times […]