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Richard Rorty's "The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture" (full-text). More about that later. I think I'm going to write my thesis on some aspect of reader-reponse criticism, Wolfgang Iser, etc. I need to choose my primary authors/texts now. I'm considering someone contemporary (Zadie Smith, Rushdie), along with a major 19th or 20th century writer like Henry James, Faulkner, or Joyce. But part of me also wants to look into Vikram Seth, Nathanael West, or Carson McCullers.
In other news, I might get the internship at Yale University Press, but now I'm not sure I want to live in New Haven in the summer.
In even other news, my soda (and now my limonade) has been suspiciously fizzing way too much lately. I should really stop consuming carbonated beverages, because I think they're killing my brain, not to mention my bod. Sucralose ("Splenda") has been linked to thymus shrinkage in rats, for example, leading to immunotoxicity. And everyone has heard of the potential neurodegenerative and carcinogenic dangers of aspartame consumption. It's too bad that the studies used to assess the dangers of these sweeteners are so often overseen by companies like Searle, whose CEO between '77 and '81, incidentally, was Donald Rumsfeld.
Regarding soda, I was mildly shocked to learn that the word soda referred to its sodium content. Duh. This is coming from the girl who had to look up the word "smuggler," the other day. But I think that's unfair, considering that "Smuggler's Notch," given that it's a vacation spot, always reminded me of "Snuggler's Notch," so I thought that smuggling in this context meant something like snuggling.
In other news, I might get the internship at Yale University Press, but now I'm not sure I want to live in New Haven in the summer.
In even other news, my soda (and now my limonade) has been suspiciously fizzing way too much lately. I should really stop consuming carbonated beverages, because I think they're killing my brain, not to mention my bod. Sucralose ("Splenda") has been linked to thymus shrinkage in rats, for example, leading to immunotoxicity. And everyone has heard of the potential neurodegenerative and carcinogenic dangers of aspartame consumption. It's too bad that the studies used to assess the dangers of these sweeteners are so often overseen by companies like Searle, whose CEO between '77 and '81, incidentally, was Donald Rumsfeld.
Regarding soda, I was mildly shocked to learn that the word soda referred to its sodium content. Duh. This is coming from the girl who had to look up the word "smuggler," the other day. But I think that's unfair, considering that "Smuggler's Notch," given that it's a vacation spot, always reminded me of "Snuggler's Notch," so I thought that smuggling in this context meant something like snuggling.