Pamela Bedore @pbedore
English prof at UConn Avery Point. Teach Pop Literature, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, Gender Theory english.uconn.edu/person/pamela-… New London, CT Joined April 2009-
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So yeah....Hugh MacLennan's *Two Solitudes* (1945) is much more interesting at age 50 than it was last time I read it (age 15). Makes me wonder about the pros and cons of having high school students read the classics. It probably shaped my thinking...but I missed a lot too!
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"I would suggest here that the history of philosophy after Newton could be thought of as a series of confrontations with the question of how to talk about falling." --Cathy Caruth
“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.” — Lauren Groff
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I love a good "Day of Writing Dangerously" (nanowrimo)
“You can’t clobber any reader while he’s looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him.” — Flannery O’Connor
“How easily we forget-we in the business of storytelling- that life was the point all along.” ― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
*Project Hail Mary* is a fun book...and excellent for a discussion group!
OMG -- how is it November 15??? I am NOT at 25,000 words of nano. Sigh.
“Beware of advice — even this.” — Carl Sandburg
“Read poetry aloud and try to heighten in every way your sensitivity to the sound and rhythm and shape of sentences. The music of words.” — Janet Fitch
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Wow. I just got really stressed out reading *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* even though I totally know how it ends. Now THAT is good writing!
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.” — Haruki Murakami
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.” — Doris Lessing
“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.” — Tim O'Brien
“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.” — Don DeLillo
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