
‘One
day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form
in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are
half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’.
For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did
by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats <,
1976, p.51 )
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E379S ASSIGNMENT
all page nos. refer to the course anthology
J= Journal Due; LR=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G = Graded Discussion
Sept 28 J Zuleika as Symbol of the Distractions of College Life
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ZULEIKA (rest of Zuleika)
317-318 Zuleika Discussion Questions
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Paris Review: How much rewriting do you do?
Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending to A Farewell To Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Paris Review: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that stumped you?
Hemingway: Getting the words right
