I was asked a question last week about why I was unimpressed with Dillard's focus on the creator, and I think I know why now. In her aft...
Fears
I have had Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek on my bookshelf for the last four years, and so I was very excited to have it o...
A Man Named Truth
Since we're on the topic, and I missed you all in class today, some musical entertainment: "Man Named Truth" -- Monsters o...
Venn Diagram of Truth
In continuation of trying to figure out how the Western world would be able to function both objectively and subjectively, the au...
ONE-PARTY RATIONAL ARGUMENT
It seems strange that we are able to experience things through other things. Because then we're really not experiencing thing...
Richard Parker
Metaphors We Live By is very interesting. It's a lovely mix of entertaining reminders of how we speak and function as well a...
Mythos, the new appeal
“Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion.” (342) I think it is very easy to mythologize our own liv...
If everything is Truth, why are we still arguing?
Pirsig writes, “When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always b...
Easy Rider
Here are some of my favorite lines from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance so far (page numbers might be about 11 pages off f...
How I Feel About Being Uptaught
The more I listened to my classmates about this book, the more I started to hate it. And that kind of made me sad. It sort of seems like all...
Hello, Capstone. Let's Be Honest.
Thanks to Uptaught , this post is going to be entirely self-conscious. Not that my writing isn't self-conscious already, or rather, so...
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