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Quick clarification on the Virginia story: I read the whole spiel at Daily Kos, and apparently what they're trying to do is target women who abandon babies in dumpsters. The problem is that the PROPOSED LAW does not target them. It's like saying that if anyone, anywhere, dies for any reason (heart attack? well-documented terminal illness? old age?), it's got to be reported to the homicide squad. If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT, rather than force every single woman who ever miscarries at any stage of gestation, anywhere, to account for herself. You know, with words like "abandoning" and "receptacles not intended for babies, such as dumpsters, or the occasional birdbath."
Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.
Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.
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Right now my knowledge of the book consists of a scrap of lyric from Stephen Sondheim ("so why watch me die like Eliza on the ice?"), my APUSH teacher's urging us to read it, and the King & I version ("The little house of Uncle Thomas"). Hopefully I just won't need to find out more.
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Hee. Well, I mean, I did like a one-paragraph bit on Samson Agonistes. That kind of thing wouldn't have been out of the question. Except for the jarjarative qualities.
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Also read The Sound and the Fury for AP-had the same feelings. I consider myself well read, but I JUST NOW started reading Catch-22 for the first time and I swear I have never taken this long to read a book... 6 days thus far and I'm only half way through. The craziness-she hurts my brain.
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I don't remember a damned thing about either book.