December 2011
4 posts
eng 301 final. putting it here for posterity
“I could hear the human noise we sat there making”: A Comparison of Carver’s Gin and Hemingway’s Absinthe in the Role of Communication
The characters in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” are all confronted with a difficult paradigm: the futile attempt to reconcile feelings and emotions while understanding...
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via thoughtsdetained)
