It's been busier than ever as the semester winds down. Eight papers, 3 group projects, 3 exams, *and a partridge in a pear tree* I sing as the Christmas season is coming in full swing. Only 23 more days until the day comes when everyone's families try to act "normal" and people give gifts that are well over the price range they established at the Secret Santa meetings. Don't get my wrong, I'm really excited for Christmas and the long break that comes with it. Singing carols, eating good food, being with family and close friends, and giving people gifts and seeing their faces light up (or they act surprised, it doesn't matter I love it!) It's waiting for it to come that's the big deal. Anyways...onward!
Essay Packet 2. Three Voices and The Fine Art of Sighing. Both are interesting. First Three Voices:
Three Voices, again, is one of those stories/essays that I just cannot figure out. I have read it a few times now trying to understand the underlying meaning of it, and I simply cannot put it together. It is full of sensory imagery! The colors, the sounds, the tactile images, it's very well put together. Reading it, though, I get the sense that this story is about a couple. A man who does many things to make his wife comfortable, and she doesn't really give him any credit, so she runs off with a Russian Acrobat in the circus, as if he can give her more support than a man who grants her every wish.
The Fine Art of Sighing:
Now, this one was interesting because it brought up a bunch of things I hadn't thought about before. We sigh for many different reasons. We sigh when we think, when we're comfortable, or when we drink a coke. We sigh sometimes as if our lives depended on it, taking in a sweet breath and letting it all go so we can relax. Everybody sighs at some point in their life. The paragraph was what got me though. The talk of Venetian prisoners who were escorted to their execution over the Bridge of Sighs connecting on breath to the next. Just very...spine chilling. How a sigh can connect people in their darkest hour...even if the sigh isn't an actual breath.
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