Alms, Alms, For a Miserable Writer.

flotsam of an hours thinking. So what did I read today? Wimsatt and Beardsley. I loved their direct, no-nonsense approach to correcting what they see as significant errors in approaches to literary criticism. And besides that, they make sense! It really does seem silly to blur the realms of meaning and effectiveness. A few pages later, anoth.

What I mean to say is, does language save us? Does it unite us? Wow, thats a tough question! I know that Aquinas was a devout follower of Jesus, but I wonder what his true thoughts of the Bible were. I mean, I wonder if he got frustrated often with the problem of multiple interpretations. If he walked into my local Christian bookstore and saw all the different Bible translations, what would he think? To what degree does one have to understand a text? Does t.

Friday, May 2, 2008. Earlier I was looking through an archive of Postsecret. And there was a secret on it that referred to a significant characteristic of literature. Postsecret, by the way, is a project created by Frank Warren where anyone can anonymously mail him handmade postcards that display a secret of theirs, and he posts them on the Postsecret blog and publishes them in books. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. In the beginning was the Word.