What was it I wrote in the fall when break fell on the 13th week of the semester? "Like a superstitious skyscraper we skip thirteen." I like that, and we have done it again. I did not have much of a spring break to speak of, as I worked for most of it, but I did take last Thursday and Friday off, going shopping for an entertainment center with ( Read more... )

5:22 PM: I should be finishing the Sound and the Fury for tonight’s class, but I am so over it.  I was excited to read it again, not having read it since I was an undergrad and having just read Absalom, Absalom! and realizing that I may have sold Mr. Faulkner short… But no, despite having developed my reading skills a great deal in those ( Read more... )