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I used to play this game with Alex Day when I in high school. He would name two random things and I would state a clear association between the two in as few a words as possible. One time I connected pillow to sea voyage in like six words. I can't remember how I did that but it must have been cool. You can't say something like, "A sailor takes a pillow on a sea voyage." You have to show a relationship between the idae of a pillow or the history of pillows or something intellectual like that. Anyway, it was a weird game.
Apparently I've carried that game into my classes. I always feel the need to make random associations between artists and writers who really should have nothing to do with one another. The associations that I make seem to arise from a desire to over generalize due a to a limited understanding of both parties.
I just wrote a 7 page pager on how Henry David Thoreau is like Jackson Pollock. I don't know if it's any good or not. My teacher looked at me like I was crazy when I told him I was going to write it and it certainly was a weird thing to do. But it did help me to understand both of them better, so I suppose it's not bad. Still, do I have a more accurate understanding of them? Probably not. It's probably overly generalized. Ugh.
Apparently I've carried that game into my classes. I always feel the need to make random associations between artists and writers who really should have nothing to do with one another. The associations that I make seem to arise from a desire to over generalize due a to a limited understanding of both parties.
I just wrote a 7 page pager on how Henry David Thoreau is like Jackson Pollock. I don't know if it's any good or not. My teacher looked at me like I was crazy when I told him I was going to write it and it certainly was a weird thing to do. But it did help me to understand both of them better, so I suppose it's not bad. Still, do I have a more accurate understanding of them? Probably not. It's probably overly generalized. Ugh.