The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Current Forum: Bonus Assignment Forum
Date: Thu May 30 2002 11:55 pm
Author: Bill
Subject: Re: Counting Electric Sheep
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Thank you for your kind words, Svetlana.
You are correct; you did not say that fiction was useless! I did, however, get the impression that you had little use for science fiction. You are also correct that there are [...]
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Current Forum: Bonus Assignment Forum
Date: Thu May 30 2002 11:33 am
Author: Bill
Subject: Counting Electric Sheep
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P.K. Dick wrote this thing back in 1968. The world was a different place back then, with a different political and social climate. The cold war was at its height. The genre of science fiction was still trying to find its way. Many of [...]
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What makes it so unique? … the fact that Remarque does not spoon-feed his reader page by page with ready-made attitudes, but leaves him to draw his own conclusions from the book.
from “Die Welt am Montag”
(quoted in Barker and Last, page 38)
Introduction
Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western [...]
And here comes analysis. That is where people always tell me to do it in traditional ways. Do as you are told to do things. But no, I do something else. That is my crime – doing things my way. The punishment varies. Julian Craft gave this report “A minus” and I received “A” for [...]
That is what I wrote about writing a report. I doubt if anyone else dared to write to a teacher like that. But knowing Julian Craft and knowing me it comes as no surprise.
After we watched the tape, Julian Craft told us to write an incident report. At that moment, we had to write [...]
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