Tom Standage wrote an article called “how commonplace books were like tumbler and Pinterest” about commonplacing. Now I had a tumbler but never really used it but I do still have and use my finsta, a finsta is a “fake Instagram” On this Instagram it is my select friends where I can post memes that Read more about COMMONPLACING: FINAL REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS[…]
Q: “I could not tell,- it mounted me, apparently, with as much ease as if I had been horizontal instead of perpendicular. It was as though it were some gigantic spider,- a spider of the nightmares; a monstrous conception of some dreadful vision. It presses lightly against my clothing with what might, for all the Read more about QCQ #8[…]
I found this meme while looking at photos of Dorian Gray. I thought it was just too funny to not include. What I really wanted to talk about was the pronunciation of “b-ae-sel” and “Ba-z-il”. In the book, the character’s name is Basil “ba-z-il”. I wanted to connect this to my real life with someone Read more about CPB #7[…]
Q: “He shuddered, and for a moment he regretted that he had not told Basil the true reason why he had wished to hide the picture away. Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s influence and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament. That love that he bore him- Read more about QCQ #8[…]
Q: “The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs; and your fear in the presence of a man and brother – or father, or master, or what you will – to smile too gaily, speak too freely, or move too quickly: but in time, I Read more about QCQ #3[…]
Q: “”I will be with you on your wedding night.” that then was the period fixed for the fulfillment of my destiny. In that hour I should die, and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. “ C: After Victor abandons the monster and lets him wander the harsh world the monster, obviously has some Read more about QCQ #3 Frankenstein ch 14-28[…]
Frankenstein is considered one of the first science fiction novels and was incredibly ahead of its time. Naturally, I became obsessed. Frankenstein like many science fiction novels wouldn’t be complete without the experiment going wrong in some little way that changes the course of the whole story. So I started pulling quotes that I enjoyed Read more about CPB #1[…]
Q: “My temper was sometimes, and violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately. I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics Read more about QCQ #2 Frankenstein ch 1-13[…]
What makes a monster a monster? This is probably one of the best questions I have ever been asked and I spent a couple of days mulling over it. “That which questions the binary thinking and introduces a crisis” is a monster, says Marjorie Garber. Personally, I couldn’t agree more. While Jeffery Choen elaborated on Read more about What makes a monster monstrous?[…]
