November 23, 2004
it's been a very long time since i've updated here, but i've been out of town for practically four weeks (chicago, charlotte, portland, memphis, st. petersburg, st. louis, and indianapolis). i'm heading back home to michigan in the next few hours (after my one non-cancelled 200-level class transpires with a five-point quiz...oh, what i'll do for five points out of 1,000), and can't wait to see mom, dad, biggy/danielle and the rest of the family this week.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone! we have so much to be thankful for.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone! we have so much to be thankful for.
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November 01, 2004
on the eve of election day, and just slightly before the publication of his new book, i am charlotte simmons, a great quote from author tom wolfe about one of my other favorite writers, emile zola:
have a good day voting tomorrow... wow, it's hard to believe that election day is here already...
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"[i am] proud that I do not think any political motivation can be detected in my long books. my idol is emile zola. he was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of les miserables, in which the underdogs are always noble people. but he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. you can call it honesty, or you can call it ego, but there it is. there is no motivation higher than being a good writer."
have a good day voting tomorrow... wow, it's hard to believe that election day is here already...
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