As we are sure you are aware, Dr. Tom Taylor fell ill a couple of weeks ago. Please use this thread to share your good wishes and thoughts with him during his recovery. Also, please share any stories you have of Dr. Taylor, in which he made an impact on you or made you laugh. He did win 'Professor of the Year" last year, so tell us why. We are sure Dr. Taylor will be back in the classroom very soon, until then, the English Club wishes him a speedy recovery.
Hello English Club members:
The following is a breakdown of how the meeting this Wednesday went.
1. Rapping the meeting to order we started by having King Rob read out statement of purpose that we turned into the registrar.
2. We decided on having a bowling night at Park Lanes, @ 9pm November 10th. All English Club Members/Professors are Welcome! We will be discussing the play Waiting for Godot (for Aaron) while wearing stylish shoes. (Don’t forget your socks) We are calling the evening, "Bowling for Godot," and we will be discussing the finer points of Beckett over nachos and bowling pin-shaped beers. For those who want to hang out earlier, we will meet at Denny's at 8pm.
3. We discussed using the blog to conduct the forum we did last year. (I.e.: open questions about our English major to the professors) This post should be coming soon…)
4. We planned to have a book sale to buy new children’s books for the CDC. Possible dates we discuss were 14-17 of November. We discussed calling the campaign slogan “Fiction for Feti” but Dr. Hamlin suggested something a bit less inflammatory.
5. We also discussed an All Night Movie Night idea at Eisenhower Student Union? What do you think?
6. Dr. Hamlin also PROMISED if we keep our English Spirit Alive he would host a HUGE party. So start saving your funnels.
7. The English Club Survey also revealed that most free time is during the common hour on Mondays and Wednesdays.
8. Other things of note:
a. The Immaculate Cauldron is still looking for your submission.
b. SUBMIT NOW!!
Thanks, Jesi & Trish
I thought I'd offer a new thread responding to Trish's secret shame. I too, have reading vices, and I suspect we all do (even J. Gordon!). I love Tolkien (I've probably read LOR at least half a dozen times), I'm a Trekkie (original of course), and I grew up on comic books (my first experience of lots of literary masterpieces was in the pages of Classics Illustrated, comics versions of Homer, Defoe, Austen, Poe, Melville, and everything else). So here's my question: how do we connect our guilty pleasure in these secret shames with our literary conscience. Should we feel guilty? Is there something wrong that we enjoy something we think we shouldn't, or that we don't feel comfortable SAYING we enjoy? Or should we fess up and assume that because we enjoy it it must have some merit? Do we feel guilty because we know what we're reading isn't real quality, or just because we're told (by teachers, booklists, authorities, etc.) that it isn't? What do you think? Do you have guilty pleasures too?
We hope everyone remembers that our next English Club meeting is next week, on Wednesday at 12pm in the coffeehouse. We will be discussing upcoming events and ideas, so come on in and join us for some free coffee. We do understand that many people won't be able to make it, though, so please feel free to express any ideas for activities here on the weblog. We can also use this thread for book and movie suggestions, so we can get a movie night or book discussion going. Hope to see everyone Wednesday!
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greek, Romans, Teutons, or Celts,
Can't seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their
way to say that it is like something else.
What does it mean when we are told
That the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold?
-Ogden Nash, "Very Like a Whale"
-So, does figurative language get in the way of serious writing, or does a good metaphor help clarify a point we are trying to make? Are we as academic writers allowed to pepper our essays with flowery language or should we just make a point and get it over with? And what of being brief and concise? And professors, please answer, where does figurative language fit in to academic writing? We as serious students of all literature implore you; shine a light on our question...
Welcome to the English Club Chatter Weblog. We will be posting threads fairly often, and we hope that you will join in. If you have any questions about how this works, feel free to email me at, laughbaum.12@osu.edu
We look forward to hearing your comments. Thanks and happy blogging!