| Heckling Hemingway Jan. 29, 2004 I think I�m in some serious trouble. A week-ish into the semester and I�m already sick of �close reading�. Last night, at the Recitation part of my English Synthesis class, 100 of us performed a close reading of an Ernest Hemingway vigniette. Woo-heeewww! Not only do I absolutely detest Ernest Hemingway but I think the academic community should let the whole deal with deconstructing a work (or in this case, piece of shit) GO. I think it is good to a point, to get your brain working but after a while it gets a little stale. Is this bad? I really enjoy reading but sometimes I just get tired of analyzing every little thing in it. I am sure that there aren�t many authors that just can wait for their years of work to be reduced to drivel with the aid of a few undergrads and one �discussion mediator� as they are called, normally they are called professors. Don�t get me wrong, I enjoy my classes � minus Spanish because I miss my professor from last semester � I just have a hard time enjoying the work itself sometimes. I don�t want to be one of those critical people that analyzes everything in the world and ends up in a bar alone screaming about the injustice of the modern whatever. I guess, surprisingly, I�m just not as cynical as I thought. I�m taking 18 credits � 12 of them are English, then an Art History and Spanish. My Creative Writing class stresses me the most because I haven�t been in that vein of thought for so long. I have to write a short story for Monday and I am hoping that I can get it finished fast enough for �yall to read it and critique me. I am sure you are just excited as all hell now. Yeah, I thought so. The inner working of Jenn�s brain � yay. I have to get to work on a few things before I head to class. Happy Thursday!
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