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Guess that book! (No, it is not Dracula or Fight Club.)
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As promised in my video assignment preparation post, one of my assignments for this week is the name that book Vine challenge! Except, whoops, I kind of disobeyed: I didn’t actually make a Vine account. Here’s the thing: I love watching Vines when it’s 2am and I’m putting off getting a healthy night’s sleep (what college student doesn’t?), but I highly doubt I would use the Vine to create content myself after using the interface this one time. I don’t like to have unused social media accounts just collecting dust in the vast expanse of the Internet, because it looks ...
Arthur C. Clarke Blackout Poetry
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Though it’s not a newspaper (as the original #Ds106 assignment prescribes), I had the idea this afternoon while my teaching parnter was teaching the Arthur C. Clarke short story, “I forget thee, Earth” to give the front page of our handout the blackout poetry treatment. The text of the new work, Art Clark’s “I forget Earth…” is below, should anyone want to give the piece a Tom Woodward “snowball” and turn the text into something else: song, dialogue, a rock opera… Ten years old, his father took up Administration and Power, the uppermost and swiftly growing Farmlands. Great, slender plants ...