There's an interesting literary point to be made, regarding your dream. Riddles, to an adult, are fervorously taxing, in that we realise there's a gap inbetween our minds and reality that can never be accounted for. How can you imagine something that can never exist? Experience is the way we relate to the world, yet it is our mind which makes this so - it's undoubtedly a curious fact that the mind, informed only by the true lines of reality, can create surreality that perplexes itself.
The same way Escher imagined his stairs that go nowhere, I suppose. :) And... I've missed you! *hugs*
You're right- and I think that's what disturbed me most of all about it- that it didn't make sense- and couldn't have. Not to mention, it was the kind of cafe I loathe with a huge passion.
It's about the validity of notions of Christian heroism in Milton's Samson Agonistes. When you find yourself writing stuff like:
'The idea of ‘the ways of God’ being ‘justifiable to Men’ intricately mirrors the intent of the poem itself, with the chorus’ earlier statement that ‘apt words have power to swage / The tumors of a troubl'd mind’ (184-5) reminding us of Milton’s dramatic purpose in writing the ‘apt words’ of Samson Agonistes.'
....you realise your academic life has no purpose.
...Jess, I'm bored. Essays aren't fun!
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You're right- and I think that's what disturbed me most of all about it- that it didn't make sense- and couldn't have. Not to mention, it was the kind of cafe I loathe with a huge passion.
What's the essay about?
~Jess
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'The idea of ‘the ways of God’ being ‘justifiable to Men’ intricately mirrors the intent of the poem itself, with the chorus’ earlier statement that ‘apt words have power to swage / The tumors of a troubl'd mind’ (184-5) reminding us of Milton’s dramatic purpose in writing the ‘apt words’ of Samson Agonistes.'
....you realise your academic life has no purpose.
Thank you for replying! I needed a distraction...
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Then again... did you choose the subject?
~Jess
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Samson Agonistes, however, is brilliant. It has the most evil woman in literary history in it, in Dalila.
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