Posts Tagged ‘Vonnegut’

Lêthê Dis-aster

CATTt | Posted by Gary Hink October 5th, 2009

(Audio)                      CBC    |    BBC    (original broadcasts, 16 Feb 1945)

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Notes and Context for Wed 07-Oct

When all is said, what remains to be said is the disaster. Ruin of words, demise, writing, faintness faintly murmuring: what remains without remains (the fragmentary). — Blanchot (33)

 
“And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like Poo-tee-weet?” — Vonnegut (24)

 
 
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So It Goes

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 3rd, 2009

 

 
 
 
M 05-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (through Chp 5; Caroline & Erin)
 
 
 
W 07-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (Chp. 6-8; Laura Navia)
 
 
 
F 09-Oct Slaughterhouse Five    (Chp. 9-10; Audrey)


 
 
 

F 09-Oct                    Due: Response 3Prompt
 
                                  Extra Credit for Resp 3. (due 12-Oct)
 

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Discussion Intro. Schedule

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink September 1st, 2009

 
Required

 
By Friday 4-Sept, please post (in comment below) top 4 selections / requests of two days responsible for starting class discussion of readings —beginning Wed 9-Sept, as part of Attendance/Participation credit.

 
Review Schedule (updated 05-Sept)

 
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