#engl451

[umwgirl93-blog]

I wanted to portray the hallway differently from the other people that contributed to page 235 by thinking of it being a long winding, curving, changing hallway like in a home with doors slamming one after the other in front of you. I wanted the words to be disappearing behind as if the doors were really slamming on them.

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After reading this page, the box reminded me of a piece of gauze that Jed bandaged Wex’s arm with. I feel like Wex gets easily forgotten about and I wanted to give Wex a bigger role especially after getting shot! Yes, that is suppose to be a hand holding a bleeding arm with the shot gun blasts eliminating for only a moment before Jed disappears into the darkness sobbing. (Don't make fun of my bad drawing of a hand!)

[umwgirl93-blog]

I wanted to portray the hallway differently from other people that contributed to page 235 by thinking of it being a long winding, curving, changing hallway like in a home with doors slamming in front of me. I wanted the words to be disappearing as if the door was really slamming on them. I was able to take the words so you can pull them through as if they were to be really disappearing behind the door.

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I wanted to see how many times SOS was on this page by only counting in order s o s. They could be in the same word but had to be in the correct order before beginning the next one. I did not pay attention to punctuation. I found SOS 52 times not including the 2 times it is actually written (too easy to count those!)

[booksafterbooks]

Presentations

I really enjoyed everyone's presentations at the Kemp Symposium. It was cool to see the project on social media platforms. I wrote some of my paper on society's trend of shortening and condensing, and Garret's project really played with that idea because he was forced to write poetry with very limited length requirements.  I am also not surprised his poetry didn't get much positive feedback, we tend to use our social media platforms for entertainment, quirky facts, or interesting pictures. Maybe if the subject of the poetry was humor or puns people might have liked it. It seems literature is much more shallow on those platforms because of people's expectations that come with the media...

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S. after Engl 451

So I really want my dad to read S. and I was trying to explain it to him and in doing so I realized that I don't think there's a way to explain the book without sounding super confusing.  That would be like someone trying to explain Lost to someone who hasn't started watching it yet: they'd be so lost. In actuality, the novel was fairly easy to read once you got used to it a little bit and found a reading strategy that suited you.  I remember some of our first reactions to the novel roaming around the lines of how well crafted it was, how visually appealing, and how they organized it fairly well considering how complex everything is. I have to say I still agree, and going back over the parts to get more info for the Wiki, I was able to grasp things even more easily than the first time.

Though my dad seemed apprehensive at first, I told him that we created an entire Wiki to help explain things if he got lost, but I told him that if he read parts of it, then it would give away plot points and spoil some surprises.  He liked Lost a lot and he enjoys sci-fi adventure novels and weird things, so I think he will enjoy the book, the only problem is I don't want to lose any of the inserts, they play a pretty significant role in the book, and they help clarify a lot of things.  I wonder if you can buy them somewhere without having to repurchase the whole thing....

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K. Hayles-- how we read

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“The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device.”

As mentioned by “End of Books.”