The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Homework

January 2010
Poetry: "The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves" by Kenneth Patchen
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175617
"The Story of Our Lives" by Mark Strand
Short story: "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka


February 2010
MRS. BELL: I'd like you to start writing on your blog every night--even if it's just a line or two, a personal reflection unrelated to literature, or a part of a poem or story.  So many thoughts, ideas, threads, lines get lost because we lose the habit of writing them down.  For your more formal entries (say two or three a week), choose a passage from what you're reading, type it out and offer specific analytical and personal reflections on it.

How does that sound?

ME: That sounds like the best assignment I'll ever get!

March 2010
Short story: The Best American Short Stories 2008


April 2010
Short story: Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser


May 2010
Memoir: Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett


June 2010
Short story: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro


July 2010
Novel: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster