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Quick Hits: “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 by amelia admin

Content Like Seneca, Orwell begins by identifying a problem and promising a solution. He hops almost immediately into an English language workshop, which centers around five paragraph-long examples. The insights I found most helpful were:   Dying metaphors: The purpose of metaphors is to bring a thought alive by calling a vivid image to mind. Dead…

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Quick Hits: “On the Shortness of Life” by Seneca

Posted on July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 by amelia admin

Form This essay is not concise—but perhaps one of the reasons I say so is because it is laden with examples and anecdotes from the first century A.D. This makes it historically interesting but difficult to relate to and tricky to evaluate from my 21st century perspective. When I come to a text that is…

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Quick Hits: “On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion

Posted on June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 by amelia admin

“‘That woman Estelle,’” the note reads, “‘is partly the reason why George Sharp and I are separated today.’”  Didion begins her essay with this note because it awakes a gossipy desire for confession in the reader and he’s hooked. But that desire is disappointed, or at least diverted. The note is a quotation of a…

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~5.3.22 Thankful List of Spring

Posted on May 3, 2022June 9, 2022 by amelia admin

What must the first flower feel in March when it gives a final push and breaks to the surface of the earth? All around her bowed head, the grass is withered and the trees are bare. The sky is white. The winds howl with frost. Amid the sere brown and gray, trudge pale wintered faces…

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