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The literary genius of dentists - When I found this strange document in a book I was looking at in the bookstore, I knew exactly what to do. Here’s a little discourse analysis: -The first t...1 year ago
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Heiwa ni suru! "Go in peace yall" - Yataa! Watashitachi wa owarimasu! We are just about done. Everyone still has one more trial left for this class, but it's in the bag. I feel like maybe I d...1 year ago
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"Last Post" - This might not actually be my last post. I hope to read more Nabokov over the holidays, and though fewer people may read my posts, I may still continue to b...2 years ago
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Paper, Little overdue - “Easy, you know, does it, son.” “But the future has no such reality (as the pictured past and the perceived present possess); the future is but a figure ...2 years ago
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The Electric Spark - The Electric Spark In the first sentence of his biography Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov gives his readers perhaps the greatest insight into the author’s mo...2 years ago
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Western Swallowtail - So I finally figured out that the little orange caterpillar pictured here is a western swallowtail. !!! I am so excited.2 years ago
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Final Thoughts - This will be my last posting to this blog. I know that this last entry has fallen behind the deadline, but as this is simply a parting farewell to this cla...2 years ago
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Coincidence - Helena's final paper about coincidence was so interesting to read and reminded me of oral traditions when Dr. Sexson said (I don't remember exactly) someth...2 years ago
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Finally I'm going to be honest - This class was the only class that I wanted to drowned in, but because this was my extra curricular "fun class" I couldn't give it the time I wanted to giv...2 years ago
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A Little Joke - A name of a book in Transparent Things was Cunning Stunts....This reminds me of an old joke. What is the difference between a circus tent and a tent full...2 years ago
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And in Conclusion... - I suppose this is the last thing before I begin again ... riverrun (does it son, you know). I would like to, once more, bring up the quote from Speak, Memo...2 years ago
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In Rapture - Now, we're supposed to make some sort of final post, yet I'm not quite sure what to post. Nothing seems final. We've really only finished the semester, Tha...2 years ago
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final thoughts... - This class has ruined me. It has ruined me and all of the novels I liked to read before it. I have been waiting, very impatiently I might add, to read the ...2 years ago
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Closing Words - As always, I really enoyed Dr. Sexons class this semester. One can always count on his class to be entertaining as well as informative. It is for professor...2 years ago
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Final Thoughts and Thanks - This class has been one of the most mentally challenging classes since I made the mistake of trying to be an electrical engineer. What makes this class ama...2 years ago
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Gilgamesh - As I was going though *Speak, Memory* when writing my final paper, I came across an interesting quote, something that I had missed before. "To fix correctl...2 years ago
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Final Pondering - Shaman Sexson asked for something a little mad, a little brilliant. mad brilliance, brilliant madness. here we are, mere mortals surrounded by the divine....2 years ago
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Final Thoughts on the Class - I hated to write the word final into the heading of this blog, because this will definitely not be a class that has trouble holding its ground in memory no...2 years ago
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Last Thoughts - Dr. Sexson wrapped up the class so eloquently today that I don't think anything I say can really do it justice. I already kind of blogged a little "last th...2 years ago
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The Last Blog - Wow.... i cant believe that today is that last day that our class will be meeting. like i had said last time, i cant think that we have done all the discov...2 years ago
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Final Thoughts - "I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." -N. Lolita is about it, this class was about it, and I'l...2 years ago
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The Last Word - I am pretty sure it is quite impossible to conjure up a last word or words about this semester’s Nabokov exploration. I, as I’m sure all of you, have an in...2 years ago
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Final Thoughts - First ~ I have more ideas for my paper...the paper that never ended...usually once I turn them in, I let it go, but this one just won't do that...must be b...2 years ago
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Ghosts of Thought - I sat at my desk and thought about the future and the past in spectral shadow. A group of crows clustered together in a naked tree to share their warmth. E...2 years ago
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A Summation of Class - Since the semester is near its end I feel as if the only thing to do is wrap things up. As usual I am amazed at how much I get from Dr. Sexson’s classes. L...2 years ago
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paper - On Vladimir Nabokov by A. Abate “The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that ...2 years ago
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finally: transparency - "Transparent" is a perfect word for Nabokov. Google images brings up a whole host of their versions of "transparency". This one was by far the most stagger...
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Final Paper-- "Based on a Misprint" - *I was unable to figure out how to attach the notes. I guess you all can try and annotate some of the paper yourselves!-- Adam Foreword Based on a Mispri...2 years ago
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As the days dwindle - and we approach the end of yet another enchanting semester with Dr. Sexson I find myself once again reflecting on the beauty and pity of our time spent wit...2 years ago
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The Ending to My Script for Pale Fire - Okay so i started with the ending, and i figure its the first thing i feel is worthy of reading i'll post it. Please give me information on your feelings o...2 years ago
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N. Scott Momaday: "The Man Made of Words" - N. Scott Momaday, of the Kiowa tribe, the first Native American to win a Pulitzer (House Made of Dawn, 1969), wrote the groundbreaking essay for Native Ame...2 years ago
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accident;y hit publish befofre putting this word on - 8. Katydid- Any of several large, usuaally green, American long-horned greasshopper, the males of which produce a characteristic song. I got the swine flu ...2 years ago
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letter to amanda - On the back of an old copy of Lolita that I have, one quote endorses the novel: "...the only convincing love story of our century" (Vanity Fair). Like ma...
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My First Memory - This is my first post for the class Studies in a Major Author: Vladimir Nabokov. My first conscious memory that I have been able to hold onto throughout my...2 years ago
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