St. Anne's Reading Group Experience discussion

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David Given Schwarm (davidschwarm) | 166 comments Mod
1. Attendees
Candace, Shelly, Steadman, Ronnie, David, Mike, Sam, James, Fred, & Thomas

2. Status--Hands, Paper Pills, Mother, Philosopher, & Nobody Knows.
1. Most members completed the reading
2. We were way more focused this time then historically

3. Review reading
1. Grotesque
1. is it simply being common?
2. Ugly, but sympathetic character
1. Frankenstein, Quasimodo, & others
2. Truth is beautiful until they grab a truth and then they turn grotesque
3. Set in concrete
1. Doctor is selected early
4. Who is the audience
1. Urban, cosmopolitian
2. No idea
3. dynamics of the Audience
5. Changing America
1. Village life going away
2. Female roles
3. Social structures
4. New alienation new apartment that we can read bout
6. Anti-Village-ism
7. Modern Realism
8. The diversity is different
9. Does the chapter order matter
10. Who is the Narrator
11. We are all Crucified on the Cross.

4. Vocab
1. mostly simple language
2. profligacy--reckless extravagance
5. Quotes
1. "There is getting laid, and then there is getting laid"
6. Next week read through Adventure--Godliness & Man of Ideas only.


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