Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What comes after Moby Dick this year?

2011-2012 Schedule

Oct. 18: Melville, Moby Dick
Nov. 1: Emerson, “The Divinity School Address” &
“Self-Reliance”
Nov. 15: Stanton, “The Solitude of the Self”
Nov. 29: Nabokov, Pnin
Dec. 13: Kant, ”To Perpetual Peace”
Jan. 10: Welty, The Golden Apples
Jan. 24: Sophocles, “Antigone”
Feb. 7: Plato, Protagoras
Feb. 21: Hume, “Of Personal Identity” *
Mar. 6: Foucault, Discipline and Punish *
Mar. 20: Bible. O.T. “The Book of Job”
Apr. 3: Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
Apr. 17: Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues"
May 1: Dostoyevsky, “Notes From Underground"
May 15: Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King"
& Maupassant, “The Necklace”
*selection

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Wasn't Moby-Dick a terrier?

I am so excited about Moby-Dick that I'll probably even finish reading the introduction or something. It's a two-Airedale problem! If the dogs don't prevent me from reading Moby-Dick they will almost certainly eat the book itself. And how come is Moby-Dick hypenated? Maybe I should try harder to read past the introduction. Sit, stay and maybe I'll see you in October. Am looking forward to seeing some of my old friends, me.

Jeanne (Drop it!) Lafferty