Relief
I took my British Lit exam this morning. I feel that I did well on it. There was one identification question, "My heart Leaps up," which I drew a blank on. The other 19 identification I think I nailed. As for the discussion questions, I felt a bit rushed for time with them but I think I did a better than satisfactory job. The instructor returned our first papers and I was delighted to have received an A. Yahoooooo! In Spanish we took a qiuz and were handed back our tests, at last. I scored a 105% on the test and think I missed 2 on the quiz. Today's been a stressful day. I can't wait to relax a little now that school is over.
I took my British Lit exam this morning. I feel that I did well on it. There was one identification question, "My heart Leaps up," which I drew a blank on. The other 19 identification I think I nailed. As for the discussion questions, I felt a bit rushed for time with them but I think I did a better than satisfactory job. The instructor returned our first papers and I was delighted to have received an A. Yahoooooo! In Spanish we took a qiuz and were handed back our tests, at last. I scored a 105% on the test and think I missed 2 on the quiz. Today's been a stressful day. I can't wait to relax a little now that school is over.
9.26.2002
Shazam!
I had an opportunity to look at my grade for the American Government test I toook Tuesday, 96%! I missed two multiple choice questions. Now, hopefully I did as well on my Spanish test. I have a quiz, that is to say a test, in British Lit tomorrow. I also have I bonafide quiz in Spanish- more adjectives, question words, and how to tell time. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and studying.
bacterium Neisseria meningitidis
After World Civilization I'll be going to the student center to get a meningitis vaccine. $85. Inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord, yummy!
Late Night
To prepare for my British Lit "quiz" I picked up a couple of books to assist me in interpreting Rime of the Acient Mariner. While trying to resolve the symbollic signifigance of salvation coming to the Mariner by blessing the water-snakes, I obtained "The Road to Xanadu" from the university library. It is a fascinating book; a sort of a literary forensic scientist.
John Livingston Lowes wrote a book called "The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination" which was published by Houghton Mifflin (Boston) in 1927.
Lowes' book traces an amazing hypertext -- the reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- by starting from Purchas' book and any others which Coleridge mentions in his journals, letters, etc., and moving on from there to any books mentioned in the text or footnotes of these books, and so onwards through yet other books that Coleridge may well have consulted -- because we know he consulted others which recommended or mentioned them...
Along the way, Lowes discovered many instances of the workings of what Coleridge himself termed "the *hooks-and-eyes* of the memory" -- hyperlinks again: for this is Coleridge's own term for them.
It appears that Coleridge read very widely in the travel literature of his day, and did indeed tend to obtain many of the books referenced in books he was reading... and that as he went, his memory was saturated with the more striking phrases from these many books, and then *linked* them associatively...
And Lowes' book itself is a gigantic hypertext, linking sources in Coleridge's reading not only for "The Ancient Mariner" but also for "Kubla Khan" -- and along the way touching on an extraordinary variety of topics. Lowes' book is, when all is said and done, one of the greatest detective and scholarly hypertexts of all time.
I had an opportunity to look at my grade for the American Government test I toook Tuesday, 96%! I missed two multiple choice questions. Now, hopefully I did as well on my Spanish test. I have a quiz, that is to say a test, in British Lit tomorrow. I also have I bonafide quiz in Spanish- more adjectives, question words, and how to tell time. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and studying.
bacterium Neisseria meningitidis
After World Civilization I'll be going to the student center to get a meningitis vaccine. $85. Inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord, yummy!
Late Night
To prepare for my British Lit "quiz" I picked up a couple of books to assist me in interpreting Rime of the Acient Mariner. While trying to resolve the symbollic signifigance of salvation coming to the Mariner by blessing the water-snakes, I obtained "The Road to Xanadu" from the university library. It is a fascinating book; a sort of a literary forensic scientist.
John Livingston Lowes wrote a book called "The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination" which was published by Houghton Mifflin (Boston) in 1927.
Lowes' book traces an amazing hypertext -- the reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- by starting from Purchas' book and any others which Coleridge mentions in his journals, letters, etc., and moving on from there to any books mentioned in the text or footnotes of these books, and so onwards through yet other books that Coleridge may well have consulted -- because we know he consulted others which recommended or mentioned them...
Along the way, Lowes discovered many instances of the workings of what Coleridge himself termed "the *hooks-and-eyes* of the memory" -- hyperlinks again: for this is Coleridge's own term for them.
It appears that Coleridge read very widely in the travel literature of his day, and did indeed tend to obtain many of the books referenced in books he was reading... and that as he went, his memory was saturated with the more striking phrases from these many books, and then *linked* them associatively...
And Lowes' book itself is a gigantic hypertext, linking sources in Coleridge's reading not only for "The Ancient Mariner" but also for "Kubla Khan" -- and along the way touching on an extraordinary variety of topics. Lowes' book is, when all is said and done, one of the greatest detective and scholarly hypertexts of all time.
9.25.2002
Early to Bed and Early to Rise
Makes a man or woman.... miss out on the night life
Yesterday morning Blogspot was down for maintenance so I couldn't post. I have a few things about tests : First, I think I aced my Spanish test. Second, I took a test in American Government which I think I aced. Now to prepare for my test in British Lit on Friday. It's a dark and rainy day and that means that I'm posting from home rather than campus :)
Makes a man or woman.... miss out on the night life
Yesterday morning Blogspot was down for maintenance so I couldn't post. I have a few things about tests : First, I think I aced my Spanish test. Second, I took a test in American Government which I think I aced. Now to prepare for my test in British Lit on Friday. It's a dark and rainy day and that means that I'm posting from home rather than campus :)
9.23.2002
In Brit.Lit we covered the life of George Gordon, Lord Byron. After class I spoke with the instructor about the albatross in Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner being similar to pelicans, and how pelicans are Christ symbols dating back to heraldry. Also, I mentioned that Wordsworth suggested the albatross killing and the theme of the "wondering Jew" for the mariner. Then you have redemption coming from the blessing of the sea-serpents, which is a suggestion of Wordsworth. Strange symbolisms.
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