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[wjhghf]

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told.

Virgina Woolf, A Room of One's Own

[wjhghf]

My family knew that I was deaf When I was only three, and since then fifteen years ago Have never signed to me. I know when I’m around the house, I try and use my voice, It makes them feel more comfortable; For me, I have no choice. I try, communicate their way- Uncomfortable for me. My parents wouldn’t learn sign Ashamed or apathy? I never cared about the sound of radios and bands; What hurts me most is, I never heard My parents’ signing hands.

Stephen J. Bellitz, Thoughts of a Deaf Child

[wjhghf]

But don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now.

Thomas King, The Truth About Stories

[aidn]

shakespeare was a meme blogger

[wjhghf]

“Well, you did it, hijo, his mother said, looking more relieved than was polite.”

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

[wjhghf]

"This is our last evening together!" he said. "Stop your crying. I want every one of you to find something small and precious, something to give your mother to remember you by, something she can hide, something they can't take away."

Tim Tingle, Crossing Bok Chitto

[wjhghf]

Then one day trouble came. It always does, in stories or in life, trouble comes.

Tim Tingle, Crossing Bok Chitto

[writerswritecompany]

[wjhghf]

[... C]hildren's books continue to portray deaf characters more from a medical than a cultural perspective. This suggests that children (both deaf and hearing) who are reading the books will see deaf children portrayed as disabled and having a medical problem that can and should be fixed in order to make them hearing, that they can rely on communication strategies that hearing people typically use (e.g., listening, speaking, or speechreading), and that, without these interventions, deaf individuals will be (or will be perceived as) angry, isolated, and/or unable to function in everyday life. [...] All of these portrayals do not teach deaf children to value themselves as Deaf individuals; rather, they suggest to deaf children that they may not be accepted or appreciated unless they can acquire devices and communication strategies that enable them to "fit" into a hearing world. In addition, such depictions (re)emphasize to hearing readers that deafness is a disability, and should be treated as such.

Debbie B. Golos and Annie M. Moses, "Representations of Deaf Characters in Children's Picture Books"

[wjhghf]

My professor sends the best emails

[wjhghf]

"How beautiful are the noble children! How large are their eyes! And so young too! Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning."

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

[wjhghf]

"…man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches. Then everybody in the jungle suffers. The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him."

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

[wjhghf]

New semester, new tags to track or blacklist! (old tags may still pop up, as I haven't finished going through and posting all the quotes I wanted to post)

[#Childrens Lit] for Children's Literature

[#Editing] for Intro to Editing and Publication

[#Post Colonial Americas] for Post Colonial Literature and Culture: the Americas

[#Shakespeare] for Shakespeare

[aseaofquotes]

[sequinsed]

I read this in my 11th grade english class and i still think about it sometimes. 

[almightea]

This is my favorite fucking short story ever. It changed the way I look at human weakness.

[infinityl4nd]

This is one of my favourite things ever.

[errantharlot-deactivated2018090]

I before E

except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbour

[missmorange]

“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”  ― James Nicoll

[stunthusband-deactivated2013030]

Jeff Raskin:

“I before E Except after C, Unless pronounced A As in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’” Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules! Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools! Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions: We were seized by a feeling For fleeing on the ceiling To a leisurely meal With Keith, Sheila, and Neil We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring. Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch. So I before E Except after C Unless pronounced A? False decreeing, I say!”

[wjhghf]

Actual quote from an email my professor just sent:

Should we have apocalyptic power failures and flooding this week, I will of course revise the syllabus again, but I'm trying to assume that Frankenstorm will really just be an ordinary rainstorm wearing an especially scary Halloween disguise.  On the other hand, did any of you notice that the second coming of Noah's Flood in "The Miller's Tale" was supposed to arrive on a Monday night?  On the other other hand, that prediction was made by handsome Nicholas, a trickster and a bad scholar. In any event, the purported apocalypse is not supposed to arrive until Monday NIGHT, so we should be ok tomorrow afternoon.

Some people were just born to teach English literature.

[wjhghf]

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. But in the admittedly limited sample comprising my father and me, perhaps it _is_ sufficient. Not only were we inverts. We were inversions of one another. While I was trying to compensate for something unmanly in him, he was attempting to express something feminine through me.

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home