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Why resolve ‘Freedom’?
“She seemed to be seeing all the way through to the back of him and beyond, out into the cold space of the future in which they would both soon be dead, out into the nothingness that Lalitha and his … Continue reading
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A Passage from Waldman’s Epilogue (also titled ‘Did You Get It Yet?’)
I think part of what made this novel so difficult for me to process were the implicit writerly assumptions at the foundation of the work. As we discussed in class, Waldman clearly fabricates the average American’s involvement or care w/r/t … Continue reading
USIdent as a Narrator in ‘Southland Tales’
In class we looked at the first page of the graphic novel for quite some time – especially focusing on the computer-generated picture of USIdent. In a similar manner, I’d like to discuss a specific occurrence (and reoccurrence) that I … Continue reading
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The Desert is the Real
Welcome to the Desert of the Real, p92-93 “What was truly weird in the reports of these events in the American media was that they could barely conceal their surprise at the fact that the Taliban fought back, as if … Continue reading