Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Day 23: Chardonnay.

So, the class on irony went over better in one section than in the other. Quand même, I have another trick up my sleeve - and I'll let you know how that happens after Friday.

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On another note, today has been a reasonably productive day, yes?
I have 8 out of twenty items on my to-do list checked off.
That's an improvement over yesterday (sort of).
I even got some yoga into the mix.

For the rest of the evening, I'm going to have a quinoa dinner with a pretty glass of chardonnay and then go to bed.

But first, a celebration and then a minor epiphany about a question that has been on my mind: what's the point of literature (and humanities departments)? I propose that we need literature to humanize us. We need humanities and languages departments not for the practicality of teaching people to write and read; but possibly more importantly, to remind us that the Holocaust, the Trail of tears and the Babri Masjid were real things. To remind us that these events are more than history, they are lived experience.
To remind us that everything is illuminated with the light of the past.
We need literature and a study of literature as a way out of apathy.
Because literature can what with all due respect, science and mathematics cannot. 

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