For this blog post I will be writing about Fluorescence by Jennifer Dick. I will first begin to write about part 4 in the book. This part was very intriguing to me, because she wrote down all of these many reasons why people aren't satisfied with their own lives. She starts off with "Because of money, or mood, a strange sore in the throat, sex no longer enticing," and then she ends this long paragraph with " because no one could explain." The only person who can explain why a person committed suicide is the actually person who is gone.
Another part in this book that I will blog about is called Gravity. Right away I notice the odd syntax to this poem. Each line starts left margin, to the middle margin, to the right margin. She has two lines like that, and then puts two more lines directly centered. I'm not quite sure what she is talking about in this poem. A line that I really liked was "something red in the green dank of the blue lake dimpled reflections or perhaps fins." This is very descriptive with the colors she in this line. The last line of this poem I also found very interesting, "The body knows, is known she whipsers in the back of his eye so he won't forget." I'm not too sure how you whisper in somebody's eye. This might be a symobolic line for something else.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Blog post 11/9/2011
In this blog post I will be writing about the section of Jealousy in Lamotts's "Bird by Bird." To me I can really connect to this section because I believe that jealousy is a horrible trait to have. Jealousy can really get a person and affect their lives. The line "The more I wrote about it and the more I thought of the movie, the angrier I got at how often this writer friend mentioned her money to me, because that summer Sam and I had almost none, and she knew it." Another line that I could really connect to was, "You are going to feel awful beyond words. You are going to have a number of days in a row where you hate everyone and don't believe in anything." This is a about as truthful as it can get. You have to keep going though no matter what and get through the jealousy and the days where you feel horrible. It always gets better that's how I like to put it. One line from this chapter that I liked was " Me deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things." This line is very strong in that you want to live your life to the fullest until you die.
Lamott likes to give this reference to broccoli in one section of this book. In this section she explains to students this important concept. A line that really stuck out to me was "Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly." Let your story speak to you and tell you what to write down is the way I take this whole broccoli idea. She speaks of how we need this broccoli or you will be having a mental block day or just a bad day. "You need your broccoli in order to write well" she says. Writing is just a simple process that Lamott likes to break down in a funny way.
Lamott likes to give this reference to broccoli in one section of this book. In this section she explains to students this important concept. A line that really stuck out to me was "Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly." Let your story speak to you and tell you what to write down is the way I take this whole broccoli idea. She speaks of how we need this broccoli or you will be having a mental block day or just a bad day. "You need your broccoli in order to write well" she says. Writing is just a simple process that Lamott likes to break down in a funny way.
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