"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own." "The most important thing in life is to see that you are never beaten." "The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man."
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Good luck to everyone as you prepare for finals week. AP Students: Please make sure that you have read "Sonny's Blues" before the time of the final. World Lit Students: Please have your journal/blogs completed and have finished Invisible Man before the final. Debate Class: Know the material about parliamentary debate and be prepared to […]
A selection of interesting observations about the end of Things Fall Apart and short story week. For a complete list of blog posts, click here: CafeMilatte suggests that "The Hunger Artist" is perhaps nothing more than Franz Kafka's rather emo autobiographical story. After reading "The Guest", peacefreak77 wonders about the nature of existence, karma, and […]