This is my online Portfolio featuring journals, projects, and pictures from my Plan II Honors freshman world literature class at the University of Texas in Austin. The year long class is broken up into the fall and spring semesters. This site features my work in E603A and E603B. Dr. Bump, a.k.a. the "Mad Hatter," has put emphasis on making connections with everything around us. All of our readings and assignments have been based on creating a sense of place in the chaotic world we live in. We've created ghosts in virtual worlds and have meditated in the natural. We've mentally travelled the world and we still have plenty of places to connect to. For more information about Dr. Bump's class, visit the course description. The webdesign of this site is an extension of its parent site, Pertelote.com. 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 )