Hi everyone, I forgot to give you the reading assignment for next week, which consists of the Mary Oliver poems in your course packet. After next week, we will start Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray, so if you have not already purchased that book, please go ahead and do so.
Further thoughts on our discussion about Annie Dillard's cat: perhaps, if we need to alter something about reality for the purposes of poetic license, or in order to make the essay flow, we should ask ourselves the question, "Would it change how the reader feels about the piece if she knew this was not exactly transpired? For example, if you knew there had been several people present in a room when the conversation was going on, but for purposes of clarity, you reduced the number to two, would the reader care? Or would she care if she found out if you "borrowed" a cat and made it your own?
What do you think?
Prompt for next week: Thinkest thou I made this in jest? Is all just one big joke? Yes? No? Do you have examples of the absurdity?
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