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 “What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were, and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for.”

 The following is a letter from Julia Stiles to Carol Christ, the President of Smith College, regarding the adaptation of The Bell Jaron which she is currently working. Ms. Stiles asked me to post it here as it also addresses Plath's readers.

May 1, 2008

Dear President Carol Christ,

It was a privilege attending last weekend's 75th anniversary ( Read more... )

"Now in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it."

I can not deny the power of Oprah, if she can convince Harper Lee to poke her head out into ( Read more... )

Thanks to that tease of a site Hulu, I have discovered Arrested Development, granted maybe 4 years too late esp. since I'm stuck on the first season. It takes me about 3 hours to watch an episode, so I usually have a book to read in-between the soundbites. I get like "No touching!" ::pause:: ::word:: ::long pause:: ::facial movement:: ::pause::
But ( Read more... )

"In his best moments Bush was deranged and uncommunicative, and in his worst moments, which were most of the press conference, he was swaying side to side like a punch-drunk fitghter, at times slurring his words and seemingly clinging for dear life to the verbal oases of phrases like 'total disarmament,'  'regime change,' and 'mass destruction ( Read more... )

the common woman is as common as the best of bread
and will rise
and will become strong--I swear to you
I swear it to you on my common
Woman’s
head