Curse, or blessing? Why is it that once you read something somewhere, you constantly have to make connections to everything else? Of course, this is often a good thing about education, except when it is finals week (or close to it) and you have plenty more to do than read a 4-page article about John Kerry.
After reading Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods for a class and learning about it's similarities to Bob Kerrey's fall from political grace, I inadvertently superimposed Bob Kerrey on John Kerry, and am still trying to get over it in order to be an educated voter who is pretty sure a presidential candidate didn't commit atrocities in Vietnam.
So, wouldn't you know it, Bob Kerrey shows up in the 4-pager on John Kerry just to make things confusing and to prove that both have Vietnam in common.
All this thinking will certainly do me in some day.
Posted by Julie Young at November 30, 2003 11:56 PMI'm happy to hear that O'Brien's fragmented narrative has fragmented your thinking, as well. ;-) But to be honest, I had to look it up, too, when I first encountered John Kerry's political career...so you're not alone!
Posted by: Mike Arnzen at December 1, 2003 09:31 PM