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famous groundhog: Phil, from PA. That groundhog sa So, I had a really good time in class today. I had to give a presentation on Don Quixote and Marxist Literary Theory. I wasn't sure it went well during the talk (I have a hard time reading a crowd) but at the end, everyone applauded, which they haven't done for any other presenters. Afterwards a fellow classmate came up to me and told me I really had a handle on the material, and that she thought I should be a Philosophy Professor (I have been thinking about going to a Ph.D. program in philosophy). In college I majored in philosophy, and my main focus was Aristotle (I wrote my thesis comparing Ayn Rand and Aristotle. You can see more about this here.) In one class I compared Marx and Aristotle in an essay, and I discovered that despite the surfaces differences, essentially their metaphysics, or really their meta-ethics, were the same. I expanded this in my talk today to illuminate some core concepts in Marx that relate to literary theory, and then could be applied to Don Quixote. Here is a quick argument that tries to show the relationship between Marx and Aristotle: MAN
QUA MAN I have decided what I am going to write my term paper for the Don Quixote class. We have to apply one of the various lit. theories we have learned to some text. I have chosen to Deconstruct 2 movies: The Matrix, and ExistenZ. I am really excited about doing it. Tom. I have a surprise music for the background. When I was in high school, I watched this movie called Trust. It starred Adrienne Shelley, and it was wonderful. However, what I loved most about it was the music. I have been looking for the soundtrack, or the videotape since then, with no luck. However, also in high school, I used to play Nintendo with the games I borrowed from my boyfriend at the time. One of the games, on one level, had this song which sounded just like the theme music of Trust. I would have it on all the time, just to hear the music. Ironically, the music signified the death or dying of your character, so I had to play bad enough so that he was always in jeopardy, but not bad enough to end that level. That became my challenge, just so I could hear that song. Well, when I went to college and gave back the games, and broke up with that boyfriend, I could not remember the name of the game. Now, years later, while searching on a Nintendo Midi page, I found the death sequence from Wizards & Warriors. Yeah! I have a section of the song, and I don't feel as crazy. So look forward to tom. (ooh, the anticipation!) how many wood chucks should a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood-- is that how it goes? BYE
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w his shadow at 7:38 AM this morning,
eastern time. He was pulled out of his little hut, and
held up in the air to see if the sky was sunny enough to
cast his shadow in front of the admiring crowd. Did you
know that groundhogs are the least social mammals? And
that a groundhog and a woodchuck are the same animal? I
really think that Feb. is a great month: 
Valentines Day, Groundhog Day and it is
Black History Month--and don't forget my birthday.
Anyway, in the background you can hear Bill Murray
meeting Phil for the first time. He starred in one of my
favorite movies of all times: Groundhog Day. This movie
explores the idea of transformation of self if you are
essentially immortal. That is all I am going to give
away, and it is vague enough it won't ruin it for you. 