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  Petrushevskya and Compassion in “The Time is Night”   Hello all. Regarding this week’s reading of our assigned novella, “The time Is Night,” from the collection There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In, written by Ludmilla Petrushevskya, translated to English by Anna Summers in 1988, published by Penguin books and with an introduction by Anna Summers:             In the opening paragraph of the novella, Ludmilla Petrushevskya boldly and ambitiously alludes to F.M. Dostoevsky in writing, “ Notes from the Edge of the Table ” (3). This act of writing reorients the space of Russian narrative discourse through Petrushevskya’s using similar discursive practices of F.M. Dostoevsky which he employs in writing Notes from the Underground . Author Ludmilla Petrushevskya conveys through her subjective, first-person narrative the feminist perspective and how the world is viewed through that len...

 Always inspirational and always leading to question and wonder... I present to you "Unknown Road" by Pennywise, a punk/hardcore band from Hermosa Beach, CA, USA, whose inspiration and motivation resonates today from the skatepunk heydays of the 90s So you're currently content with your surroundings? Because you possess a vague sense of accomplishment? But when you had to give, did you give conservative? Do you think about all the years that passed you by were all well Spent? Pictures of everyday life spark memories And certain things pull triggers in your mind What would be different now if you were there than here What passages, what fantasies lie just beyond the unknown road Do you know the miracles that could be found? They're waiting down the unknown road So it goes   A few more cornerstones that could be yours Ever get the thought you were mistaken? Ever think about the stone's you left unturned? Or chances slip away with every passing day? Suffering with ...

In ENG 605: Dostoevsky, we are locking on to the ILS glide path as we begin our descent toward the runway, which is in sight.  On Thursday, April 17th, I am to present on Camus' novel The Fall Talk about Crises of faith... I say that because in my introductory blog I wrote about how I saw an opportunity to exlpore in these assigned texts my own interests, those being philosophy, ontology, psychology and yes, the question of God. I find myself still asking questions. Anyway, more to follow as I plan to post my PowerPoint presentation on Camus after presenting it. Have a good day and remember to be kind to others.  Thanks for reading - Anthony M. Obie

 This is a an informal critique I wrote up for class: Machado de Assis Anticipating Postmodernism Machado de Assis subverts Modernist conceptions of the novel through defamiliarization, resulting in a deterritorialization of national Lusophone discourse in 1880s Rio de Janeiro and thus a reterritorialization of language and knowledge within that national discourse, thereby anticipating the Postmodernist movement in literature. “The emergence of the modernist novel, for example, is widely perceived as an exclusively European phenomenon” (Earl E. Fitz, “ The Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas As (Proto) Type of the Modernist Novel: A Problem In Literary History And Interpretation” 7). Defining characteristics of the Realist novel include: a presupposed structure, a style that portrays objective reality, a reliable narrator, and linearity in terms of chronological presentation of events. In Posthumous Memoirs , Machado de Assis defamiliarizes the reader of Modernist literature and ...

  Machado de Assis and the Nature of the Soul in “The Mirror.”   In “The Mirror,” Machado de Assis begins the story with the gentlemen, or “four or five metaphysical detectives” (444) gathered in a house overlooking the Metropolis of Rio de Janeiro discussing “Lofty matters.” Right away we notice the phrase, “four or five,” because of its uncertainty or ambiguity. We come to find out that Jacobina is the one singled out from discourse as he is on a different plane altogether. For one, as opposed to the gentlemen of the city, Jacobina hails “from the provinces, wealthy, intelligent, not educated.” Here de Assis suggests that Jacobina, although “intelligent”—meaning he has accumulated knowledge and is aware of philosophical debates—he lacks the capacity to correctly apply that scientific knowledge to the discussion of metaphysics. Perhaps Jacobina is “not educated” in the physical sciences or “laws of nature” explained by materialism, empiricism and rationality of Western ...

  I love this song by NOFX out of the Bay Area, San Francisco USA Love you mom for raising me by yourself and love you punk rock for teaching me values. I'm reminded of this song, Fleas, by NOFX My father used to say You sleep with dogs the next day You'll wake up in the bed scratching Those inevitable fleas At ten years old You listen to what you're told But I never felt the itch I never would My mother had forbidden me To waste away my life "I want you to have all the things I could never buy you So don't stop what I'd begun You're my one and only son Follow what I say, not what I've done." Shower, scrub, and shave Cleanly boys don't misbehave Follow what I say, not what I've done Source:  LyricFind Songwriters: Mike Burkett Fleas lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group