"[I]t is not that dreams are for those who cannot endure reality, reality itself is for those who cannot endure (the Real that announces itself in) their dreams." 😃

Thanks for the link—looks like something worth checking out!

I had no idea of their involvement/interest in scholarship on metamodernism. Usha once gave a presentation as part of a BA seminar where members of the Eng staff talk about their research to give students an idea of their work, but it was on periodical research/Paris Review if I recall correctly🤔

I spot my BA thesis supervisor😮

”Things were awkward between Carney and Delroy—beyond the coerced protection-money aspect—until the hood started seeing this Jamaican gal with a lackluster dining situation. Carney was happy to move another Collins-Hathaway dinette set, ten percent off for loyal customers.”

Having said that, despite dropping the second novel from the presentation I sadly still won’t have time for covering Carney’s newspaper ads (puns combining the Harlem Riot & furniture), nor some of the many enjoyable instances where furniture salesmanship and crime meet, such as:

[He looks again at ESTRAGON.] At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. [Pause.] I can’t go on! [Pause.] What have I said?"

behalf of the reader. I remember feeling the same as they did when I read it for the first time in a BA course in 2015 (thus also disliking it). Upon my second reading in preparation for this course my perspective was entirely different and I really enjoyed it at times.

privilege) appeared the main issues. Several felt frustrated at not always understanding what was going on, almost blaming themselves for losing track of time/place. I reminded them that often when a text gets too confusing it's because it's intended to be, rather than due to a lack of skills on

Thanks! I was very fortunate; teaching the course (esp for the first time) would've felt entirely different had the students not been so interested. As for Woolf: the fragmentation, ever-changing perspective, and lack of 'likeable characters' (students took issue with most of the characters'

… animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that […] For the truth is that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”