Note: I hadn’t meant to write such a long story — I seem to be into side-trails today! I go side tracked by categories last post. Whoops. Trying again… What I had meant to say, before getting lost in re-categorizing priorities, was related but less nit-picky: it was that it’s a quite different thing to [...]
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Vocational Paradoxes
Posted by Molly on April 10, 2011
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Personal writing goal in the event of the emergence of a critique group
Updated from December 23 2010 Genre: Creative nonfiction; personal essays, sometimes with a “textual center,” as with St John’s essays Monthly goal: One edited and revised essay of medium length (8-10 pages) Duration: January 2011 — whenever Suggested text for discussion: One Year to a Writing Life Statement of intent: I’m something of a sloppy writer. [...]
Posted by Molly on January 15, 2011
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Proposal for a writing critique group
I was speaking with a few friends last night about writing: how we want to become better writers, how that’s difficult and tedious in isolation, and how it’s inconvenient and awkward for us, a bunch of somewhat quiet introverts, to de-isolate. I would therefore like to propose, to them and any friends of theirs who [...]
Posted by Molly on December 23, 2010
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A kind of a poem
A month or so ago I bought a car. It’s silver and only a few years old; good at getting places in a hurry. Before that I would take the bus most mornings to work, and didn’t like it much because I was lazy and the world was dark and cold and sleepy. Some mornings, [...]
Posted by Molly on December 20, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/a-kind-of-a-poem/
Short Stories
I have a friend who wants to write a story. So does my father. I tried taking a short story class in college once. I thought that I could write pretty well, and so I wanted to take a creative non-fiction course, but for some reason couldn’t — perhaps it was full or at the [...]
Posted by Molly on December 12, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/short-stories/
Input Requested
I owe an essay each on Syria and St. John’s, but I’ve found that I tend too much to take things for granted that perhaps I oughtn’t. What would you be interested in hearing about on either topic? Or on a different topic if you’d like. Please comment — thanks!
Posted by Molly on August 26, 2010
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Shakespeare Preceptorial Essay: Counterfeit Chances?
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great pelly doublet. He was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks. Fluellen in Henry V 4.7:45 As king, Henry V [...]
Posted by Molly on July 30, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/shakespeare-preceptorial-essay-counterfeit-chances/
Dynamical Antinomies in Kant’s Prolegomena
Let the title be a warning: it really does read like that. * * * In Part Three, §51 of the Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics Kant presents four transcendent ideas, corresponding to his four categories from the tables of §21. These seem to be the great insoluble problems of metaphysics, and Kant is attempting [...]
Posted by Molly on July 26, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/dynamical-antinomies-in-kants-prolegomena/
Tutorial Essay: René Descartes’ Meditations
The conclusion of Descartes’ Fourth Meditation purports to further his answers to the doubt laid out at the beginning of the Meditations. How can I know that what I perceive is accurate? What if I am being deceived, as in a dream? After moving, rather suspiciously, from his own existence to that of God, he [...]
Posted by Molly on July 12, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/tutorial-essay-rene-descartes-meditations/
Symbolic Unreality
The good news is, it’s as done as it’s going to be. The bad news is, I wouldn’t recommend reading it. Download PDF Document According to Jacob Klein, the symbolic character of modern mathematics, and especially of mathematical physics, lies at the heart of the conceptual shift that occurred within science in the seventeenth century [...]
Posted by Molly on May 17, 2010
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