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As I grapple with how to make choices, I decided to write this blog post as a way to wrap my thoughts around meaning, perception, attitude, and the personal stake I typically put into my experiences.
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I was introduced to the word “aporia” in Samuel Beckett’s work of prose, The Unnameable. The Unnameable is one of Beckett’s three successful novels, following the publication of Molloy (1951) and Malone Dies (1951). Each…
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Young Goodman Brown, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the 1968 thriller, Rosemary’s Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, are comparable texts, sharing a mutual critique of purity…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Minister’s Black Veil, attempts to figuratively describe the ephemeral nature of sin, a paradox from beginning to end. The protagonist,…
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Here I begin the third and final reflection on Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. I am going to write a comparison between Song of Myself and Stanley Kubrick’s…
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A post pulled from an old blog about a friend and fellow student who took his own life in 2015. At the time, I was reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself which came to me as a form of solace in an otherwise sad period of time.
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