sketchyams with gunpowder Wrote:
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if any themes or symbolism that we talked about in English class was intended by the original author... 'cause you know Lucas hadn't planned it at this level.
HAHA. I remember 2 arguments like this very vividly one about Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, the other about Gatsby...I remember telling my teacher "If you think Fitzgerald chose green light on that dock, as opposed to blue or red, and that green itself is symbolic here, you aren't fit to teach in this state"
I was suspended (but I still think I'm right)
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
