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Monday, September 18, 2006

I can't really decide if I actually like my work study so far. I'm pretty indifferent I guess - it's just something I have to do. The stuff she has me research doesn't exactly float my boat, per se, but it could be worse.

Yesterday, instead of reading my Everglades book, I bought music on iTunes. I confess that I love the song "Sexyback," and that was one of many purchases. But I also got music by Regina Spektor and Rachael Yamagata, the latter of whom I'm exceedingly glad I bought. Her voice is very cool, and has a kind of Tracy Chapman/Rod Stewart earthy quality to it. Lots of emotion and inflections, and very fantastic lyrics. There's one song in particular, "Ode to..." that is simply amazing. If you like that kind of music, at least.

We've been talking about The Scarlet Letter the last few days in my Major Figures in American Lit class and I must say that the more I study the book, the more I like it. But I think I like it in the way I like Wuthering Heights, in that the story itself is great, the writing is very pretty and descriptive, but I want to punch every character in the face. Maybe not every character, but at least the major ones. Dimmesdale is a coward and Hester Prynne is a doormat. I like Roger Chillingworth, to a degree, and although Hawthorne tries very hard to make him appear evil, I don't buy it.

What's really interesting so far is that the edition of the book we're studying has a lot of essays about the work, including some 19th century reviews of the novel. A lot of the reviews are incredibly, er, Christian, and suggest that, while incredibly well written (even "genius" to some), the story itself is immoral and should not have been written. They call for an even more religious aspect to the book; one man even mentioned "the golden days of Puritanism." It both amuses and terrifies me because while the book is not religious enough for them, I find it appallingly and tyrannically Christian extremist. We have to write these "analytical journals," due next week, and I think I just found my topic.

That's one of the things I love most about literature, though. The very fact that people can disagree so vehemently over the same text; that they can read the same thing and get completely different things out of it. It can ignite so much discussion, it's just so wonderful, lol.

Oh look, it's raining.

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