Tuning in to what's usually tuned out.
01 Feb 2011 Leave a comment
in Boring / Geekoid Tags: literature, things people say, We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t know what to make of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. It wasn’t even so much an issue of language. Zamyatin is readable the same way that Wordsworth is readable.
Still, I won’t pretend that I’ve learned the novel’s ins and outs. So when a professor chooses to say something like:
“The text subverts itself,”
I just get a nosebleed.
Kitten is a Filipino ex-pat who is trying to be a teacher of literature and who lives somewhere around Jersey or Athens. She loves both math and music, but stayed away from them as career areas in fear that she will grow to hate them. She does not understand the American concepts of power-naps and working vacations. She makes politically-incorrect jokes because they are funny and if you don't think so go get yourself a sense of humor. She believes that cooking is an art but baking is an exact science. In her high school biology class, her lab partner did all the work in frog dissection because she couldn't stand to look at the poor animal pinned to the dissecting pan. In her college biology class, she cried when she threw out her fetal pig whom she named "Wilbur." She has never completed a crossword puzzle, cheated on a test, or seen an episode of Jersey Shore.
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