21L.705  Major Authors

Dear all,

I've scanned and uploaded copies of your essays with my comments -- you'll find them on the same page where you submitted the essays.  Have a wonderful summer!

MF

Just a reminder that your 16-20pp seminar papers are due at midnight today.  (Please consult "Resources for Writing" on Stellar for last-minute questions about formatting and citations).  Let me know if you run into any problems.

Also, I've been asked to remind you all that  the link for subject evaluations will close at 9 AM Monday, 5/21.

Good luck with all your end-of-term projects!

Pullman found an inspirational English teacher at the local school who introduced him to "Paradise Lost". He says he wasn't responding along the lines of ""here's an interesting argument, yes, I agree with it.' I was moved physically, emotionally and intellectually by the language." He learnt "yards" of Milton. When he began writing "His Dark Materials" (the title itself comes from Milton), he realised after a while that he was telling the same story. "But I didn't think on the one hand, "Oh, bugger, I'm telling the same story', or, on the other hand, "Oh great, I can copy it.' I just realised that in his patch Milton had been working on the same thing. And a long time ago the original writer of the book of Genesis had been working on the same story."
moreintelligentlife.com/story/an-interview-with-philip-pullman

Looking for a meeting time?  My schedule changes week by week, so I don't have regular office hours but post open appointment times week by week; if no one has signed up by the morning, they get cancelled.  Please see my Google calendar page here to sign up for appointments, and of course let me know if you can't find a time or need to meet on short notice.

Here is the link provided by Fei:  http://librivox.org/paradise-lost-by-john-milton/.