This is a plain, free-write response to reading Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Nature and Aim of Fiction’. It was written in my journal on the 4th of January…… Read more “On Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Nature and Aim of Fiction’”
Tag: writing
Comma
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”… Read more "Comma"
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.pearls c. Mary Kathryn Gough
Memo # 12
I have finally instituted a writing day for myself. Non-interpretive, uninterrupted. Awesome. There is a rose on my desk from Valentine’s Day, I’ve eaten a delicious maple…… Read more “Memo # 12”
Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!
Hello all 🙂 Thank you all so much for your support. Idiolalia is available straight from the printer now at 3 GBP or 5 USD each (or…… Read more “Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!”
A Legend & A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi?
A Legend and A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi? St. Francis of Assisi’s spiritual life was unfathomable even to those around him while he…… Read more “A Legend & A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi?”
Barren
Bent old woman, past all youth, her been- there- done- that — sufficient. “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks, you know”, I know, everyone agrees with…… Read more “Barren”
Phenomenological Movement Journal
Katie Huffman / PHIL 340 / Halteman Journal # 1.5 (date?) ; Response to the Phonomenological Movement Several Quotations I reacted to very strongly: “When epistemological inquiry…… Read more “Phenomenological Movement Journal”
Thoughts on Paul Farmer and A Vine of Neighbors…
Love your neighbor as yourself, the Scriptures say. John talked about it in lecture the other day. The good Samaritan, like Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains,…… Read more “Thoughts on Paul Farmer and A Vine of Neighbors…”
Marx & Foucault Meditation
I was going to write a piece I could be proud of this week. Something perhaps with a twinge of the intellectual child hiding out in my…… Read more “Marx & Foucault Meditation”
Heidegger Journal #7
Journal # 7 (3/5/04) A “fore-having” as Heidegger uses the term here is what you bring with you to an experience that allows you to interpret it.…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #7”
Heidegger Journal #5
Journal # 5 (2/27/04) Heidegger addresses those who make objections to environmental experience based on its presupposition of the reality of the external world by explaining why…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #5”
Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)
Although Augustine was strongly influenced by Plato, the two have clearly different ideas of what constitutes human Happiness. For Plato, justice, or psychic harmony, is the dominant…… Read more “Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)”
Plato on Happiness of Soul…
Is the just person truly happier than the unjust person? In his comparative thesis, Plato never directly addresses what happiness is, but by analyzing certain definitions that…… Read more “Plato on Happiness of Soul…”
Gender in Greek Mythology
Gender in Greek Mythology Greek mythology has been thought of as entirely patriarchal and denigrating to women. It is easy to see why. Many of the most…… Read more “Gender in Greek Mythology”
:Scarred Sky Weeping:
this cool breeze reaches me through crAcked this window, freshly filled my lungs, with oxgyen-laden truths. my ears taste tiny drops of rain — so many millions…… Read more “:Scarred Sky Weeping:”
Heidegger Journal # 4
In Analysis of the Structure of Experience, Heidegger seeks to examine the question, “Is there something?” and to show that the lived experience of this question (“deliberately…… Read more “Heidegger Journal # 4”
Oedipus the King
Mary Kathryn Huffman (married: Gough) / Classical Mythology (231) / Fall ’02 / Professor Winkle Oedipus the King Oedipus the King is a masterful work in which…… Read more “Oedipus the King”
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