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Make up whatever narrativefits the occasionbe a leaderbe a followerbe controlled by: *fashion*popular opinion*the feel-goodswalk in the oppositedirection just topiss people offand then listento what they haveto say about … behaviorliesin thecrackthatseparatesdaydreamsanddone deeds.
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Community is good for kvetching but it's no place to get work done. Who wants to watch you become unhinged? Soil yourself? It's just an uncomfortable situation all around when you toss your entrails on the rocks to figure out where your story should go. That is magic best kept behind the red velvet curtain,…
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Extra words turned into special sections that told Lenore what she was reading was true. What's more, the e-reader she held in her hands was her lifeline (her tightrope) between fussy babies and dirty nappies, and the version of herself she left behind in English 102. But back to those extra words that played hide-and-seek…
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A spark arced across the wire. A lady wants me to pay her $10.00 if I want to read her online scribbles/blog/magnum opus/un mémoire thing. It's a one-time fee but I will pass on the opportunity. I'm sure she's very nice, though perhaps a bit tipsy. Go here if you need something to read, boys…
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Chilled kisses and carven hearts are not enough to pull apart sisters of the waking dream. Between the telling of stories and the winding of time, space unfolds to protect their innocence. Listening and waiting for the ground to swell and the sky to fall, flesh crumbles into everything and nothing at all. That which…
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10 essays have been submitted and graded by my peers. I’ve had a grand experience reading, writing, and getting to know a few of my classmates during this Coursera adventure. I’m still processing all of the wonderful resources that magically poured forth from my laptop these past several weeks. I know the lessons learned while…
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Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World – Coursera Assignment 10Little Brother The abuse of power as it pertained to an individual’s rights had infiltrated all segments of society, as Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother” showed us. Marcus Yallow and his friends got the attention of the world after the Bay Bridge bombing,…
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Zoë saw the Out-of-Timers everywhere. They were not hard to miss. Any number of Timers could be spotted wearing suits of armor, or crinolines, or tattered animal skins. Along with the numbers of visitors increasing each day, there was the number itself. That number. They all had a 4 etched or embroidered somewhere on their…
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Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World – Coursera Assignment 7A Princess of Mars & Herland John Carter and Terry O. Nicholson were adventurers with qualities of rugged individualism and pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Whether leaving a trail of bodies across the surface of Mars, or routing out a lost…
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The “Frankenstein” results are in, and I'm happy with the peer assessments. The downside I see to the comments offered up is that only three fellow students weighed in. This is the fewest respondents I've had review my work, so perhaps this turned out to be a light week for submissions. I've always been a…
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