I should send you the essay I wrote for my English AP exam. You'd probably get a kick out of it. The prompt was something along the lines of "Do you think modern literature enhances the world around us? Or is it a reflection?"
Predictably, I wrote a lengthy existentialist discussion on the prompt itself. A Streetcar Named Desire gets pulled in there somewhere, by necessity- I had to link the prompt to one of the things I had read. I think the last sentence of the essay was "The most we can ever do is continue to read and write, or inspire others to write, what you or they know of humanity and the world- it is not the construction of a potentially finite whole in question, but the progression of an infinitely expanding concept of our own mortality, which will always be a little vauge, but it's good enough for me
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if they mean a reflection of the world around us i'm going to have to go with neither. i think modern literature reflects previous literature. It's like a reflection of a reflection of a reflection of a reflection and we're basically looking at nothing but the aesthetically pleasing picture the mirrors make while refracting light into one another. it could be like the hero myth in philosophy--how the same basic characters are innate in humanity therefore all stories vary minimally. We should all just stop writing now.
Hahahaha, too bad what you just said is basically exactly how I ended the essay. I used a room of mirrors to create a metaphor. Except that I was a little more optimistic, since it was an English essay, and I wanted the 50 extra credit points for the test. Which I got.
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Predictably, I wrote a lengthy existentialist discussion on the prompt itself. A Streetcar Named Desire gets pulled in there somewhere, by necessity- I had to link the prompt to one of the things I had read. I think the last sentence of the essay was "The most we can ever do is continue to read and write, or inspire others to write, what you or they know of humanity and the world- it is not the construction of a potentially finite whole in question, but the progression of an infinitely expanding concept of our own mortality, which will always be a little vauge, but it's good enough for me ( ... )
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they're much more original than we are.
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Intellectual enough for you, ehh?
But seriously, I'm available today for a while. *nodding lull*
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