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March 7, 2007

Not so easy as you'd think

Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (226-246) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"Although the American poet Robert Frost famously dismissed writing in free verse as analogous to 'playing tennis with the net down,' and critics have occasionally called for a return to metrics, free verse has become the most frequent poetic form in modern English poetry."

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March 18, 2007

Punctuation for the People

Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Left to the berks, the English language would 'die of impurity, like late Latin'. Left to the wankers, it would die instead of purity, 'like medieval Latin'."

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March 20, 2007

My name is Matt Henderson; I have a semicolon problem

Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"The main reason I recall this shameful teenage epiphany, however, is that in my mission to blast little Kerry-Anne out of the water, I pulled out (literally) all the stops: I used a semicolon."

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March 21, 2007

A nicely-hyphenated blog entry

Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"A re-formed rock band is quite different from a reformed one. Likewise, a long-standing friend is different from a long standing one. A cross-section of the public is quite different from a cross section of the public."

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March 23, 2007

Mr. Shiftlet: Definitely a Christ Figure

O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "'Oh Lord!' he prayed. 'Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!'"

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I Won't Grow Up

O'Connor, ''A Stroke of Good Fortune'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"'Ponce de Leon was looking for the fountain of youth'"

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March 26, 2007

March to Your Own Drummer

Desmond, ''Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"Thus the Misfit lives as neither believer nor unbeliever in the grey world of uncertainty, of desire for truth, and of longing for some transcendent meaning."

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March 29, 2007

Mrs. Cope can't cope

O'Connor (Choose One of Three) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"'Dead. Well I declare,' Mrs. Cope said as if death were always an unusual thing."

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