2. “Being a professor is the easiest thing in the world--you
just have to act like you know all the answers. Being a
student is much harder because you not only have to
wring the answers from the cryptic professor, but you also
have to make sense of them.”
--John Maeda
5. A. E. Housman on the causes of
obscurity in poetr y:
When the meaning of a poem is
obscure , it is due to one of three
causes. Either the author through lack of
skill has failed to express his meaning;
or he has concealed it intentionally; or
he has no meaning either to conceal or
express. In none of these cases does he
like to be asked about it. In the first
case it makes him feel humiliated; in the
second it makes him feel embarrassed; in
the third it makes him feel found out.
The real meaning of a poem is what it
means to the reader.
6. When I was One and Twenty
--A.E. Houseman
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
'The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.'
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
7. metonym:
a word, name, or expression used
as a substitute for something else
with which it is closely associated.
For example, Washington is a
metonym for the federal
government of the U.S.
8. Metonymy: the substitution of
the name of an attribute or
adjunct for that of the thing
meant, for example suit for
business executive, or the track
for horse racing.
13. third quarter
RP + JC
bring Julius Caesar on Thursday
14. generating paper topics:
an arguable question
examples:
ideal size for a church?
what makes a great con artist?
how has the use of ____ word changed?
15. start broad then narrow:
let’s try to find some decent questions:
wikipedia random article
aldaily.com
