In Walcott's poem, Achille is a seashell diver on a rapidly industralizing Caribbean island. During sunstroke, he dreams of returning to his ancestors in their African village.

AFOLABEAchille. What does the name mean? I have forgotten the one
that I gave you. But it was, it seems, many years ago.
What does it mean?

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Generally my dislike of work obstructs any guilt for not doing it, but I've been really bad with my epics class lately, so I finally sat down with the library's copy of Tom Jones tonight. So much wicked sass. Love the sass, but the repartee goes on. And on. Heard the film version's as good -- or better -- 'cause it doesn't?


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15 solid hours of sleep later, I attended a meeting with my creative writing teacher who was 'confused about some of my narrative choices.' What that meant was that he'd detected all the symptoms of me writing from a character and a string of nifty scene ideas without having a real story arc until I crapped together a bullshit ending, though he ( Read more... )