Thursday, April 12, 2007
Hey, What's with the English Major?
While Baker has this eloquent riff on the death of Vonnegut, for some reason Swanburg has simply posted more pictures of himself. What makes this odd is that he is one of only two English Majors at the school.
Seriously, if America can't count on its English Majors for literary exegesis, who are we supposed to turn to? Law professors? Opera Singers? Trade Law & IP Lawyers? Pine Woods clerks? Misty Keene? Oregon's Stay-At-Home Moms? Arizona's defense bar? Who?
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When you need literary exegesis you can always turn to the... Spanish Inquisition! Exegesis has even been outlawed by the CIA and other covert operations as cruel and inhuman punishment. I hear they are making inmates at Guantanamo Bay read The Scarlet Letter and write ten page papers about it. Punishment like that is simply incomprehensible and unbelievable. No wonder Al Kayda (whoever he is) is putting bombs all over the place. Exegesis is even known to cause madness.
Vonnegut was an author, an 84 year-old author. Anna Nicole was a young, talented, sma . . . I can't even talk about it. Anna Nicole is dead and you want to talk about an 84-year old author.
On behalf of the whole Smith / Birkhead family, I just want to say, I think it's horrible what you're doing.
I think it's time you just back off and let the whole country grieve in peace. Talking about an 84-year old author that Anna never even heard of isn't going to help anyone remember her.
On behalf of the whole Smith / Birkhead family, I just want to say, I think it's horrible what you're doing.
I think it's time you just back off and let the whole country grieve in peace. Talking about an 84-year old author that Anna never even heard of isn't going to help anyone remember her.
I know of at least one member of the Arizona defense bar that has an English degree . . .
Hence, the allusion to Poe as a metaphor for PC that eloquently depicts the dichotomy of man's hope for success amongst crippling horror and insurmountable terror.
Hence, the allusion to Poe as a metaphor for PC that eloquently depicts the dichotomy of man's hope for success amongst crippling horror and insurmountable terror.
Swanburg--
I hadn't thought of it that way. I am ashamed and upset with myself. Plus, I am going to have Larry Birkhead's next baby.
I hadn't thought of it that way. I am ashamed and upset with myself. Plus, I am going to have Larry Birkhead's next baby.
I too (two?) bear the burden of the Bachelor of Arts, English. Vonnegut painted with dabs of fact, and blots of fiction blended together with the whisper of genius. His writing was simple, beautiful and surreal.
However, the most fun thing that he ever said was when he made a thrilling appearance on the Daily Show in 2005, "I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap."
His religious and political views were bleak, but he did believe in Peace, the Earth, and Jesus, if not mankind. English majors, and the rest of you, raise a glass.
However, the most fun thing that he ever said was when he made a thrilling appearance on the Daily Show in 2005, "I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap."
His religious and political views were bleak, but he did believe in Peace, the Earth, and Jesus, if not mankind. English majors, and the rest of you, raise a glass.
The most eloquent thing I ever knew Vonnegut to say was that commencement speech...
"Wear sunscreen...!"
"Wear sunscreen...!"
Kurt Vonnegut didn't write the "wear sunscreen" speech. That's an urban myth.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/vonnegut.htm
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