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Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Not My(August)self Today in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 8 months ago

“Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]
Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post 7 (6) in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

Percival Everett’s poem “6” from the Logic section of his book re: f(gesture) is, interestingly enough, not about six, but rather about seven. The poem opens with “Seven men / can be obliterated” (Everett 70). […]
Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Middle Fingers to Order in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

A few weeks ago in class, Dr. McCoy asked us to line up in alphabetical order by last name. For a relatively large group of people, I think we were able to accomplish the task pretty quickly. Everyone seemed to […]
Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post What’s in a name? in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

Percival Everett’s abecedarian set of poems Zulus from his book re: f(gesture) comments on the importance of naming children. On two separate occasions, the speaker states, “Always name offspring” (Everett 20, […]
Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post H is for Teleology in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

In Percival Everett’s re: f (gesture), the abecedarian poem Zulus contains a multitude of allusions to a variety of people, places, stories, and more. In sifting through these many references, one in particular […]
Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Archives and Intertextuality in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

On Monday, Professor McCoy allowed us to take a mini field trip around campus with the mission of finding as many “archives” as we could. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an “archive” as “a repository or […]
Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post “Baaaa” – Conforming to the Herd and its Rules in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

In Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett (the character) warns Not Sidney, “‘Don’t be a sheep, Mr. Poitier'” (90). The professor cautions against joining the herd; it seems he thinks […]
Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post “The Ship” (and Not Sidney?) are Not Themselves Today in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

During our class period on Friday, it became Susanna’s job to yell “The ship!” every time the philosophical problem of Theseus’ ship was applicable to some aspect of Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier. […]
Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post When the Ruler Can’t Understand the Ruled in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 11 months ago

While reading Frenzy, I frequently found myself exclaiming the age-old complaint of “That’s not fair!” Injustice seems to run rampant in the novel, and I can’t seem to resolve this with the usual justification […]
Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Questions of Origin and Identity in English 203 in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 11 months ago

“Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]

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