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· Pointed Takes on Style Delineated · January 5, 2006 « Epistolary Happy Holidays | Main | My Boilerplate Baptism Unto Death, Seahawk Style » · A Slam Dunk for Thomas Mann ·I My trick is simple. Since "writing about reading" is our common theme, I ask everyone to mark in a paragraph the experience of "getting lost in a book." Next I've the task of linking faces to texts — applying names and joking with everyone about their getting suckered by "virtual reality." I start everyone out with
You'll be interested to know how I learned today of a "Brandy" who started a small kitchen fire by solving a Who-Done-It one night here, and of a "Leah" who ran her car out of gas to the sound of her husband's reading Riptide over the "Continental Divide" in Wyoming. As both discovered coasting thirty-seven miles to safety, literary criticism, naturally, I suppose, always goes downhill from there. Permalink Comments
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