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. . . Oh my
god.

*staring*

*a lot*

I don't think I've devoured a chapter like that since I was in the
height of my Harry Potter fannishness and HP4 came out.

Oh my god.

Nynaevae and Lan, and then Aginor and Balthamel, and then the Green Man, oh,
the Green Man, oh my god.

And then Rand.

Jesus.

I just.

Jesus.

Why did I not start reading this series earlier.

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Why I Love My School, Reason #347:

SDL Contract Title: Illustrating Poetry

Generally, what do you plan to do this quarter? I'd like to read,
analyze, and illustrate poetry. Poetry should be accessible and engaging --
and it is! -- but many people are put off by intimidating blocks of text. I
want to take my cue from the books Poetry Comics and interpret poems
visually.

Using a specific avatar for the main character, of course. Someone to
represent the reader, know what I mean?

In other words, I get to spend the next quarter reading poetry and drawing
Somebody Frog comics. For credit.

:D

The day has improved quite a lot.

Current poems on the list (including some
I've done already and want to rework on nice paper):

*"I'm Nobody!" Emily Dickinson
*"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" TS Eliot (excerpt)
*"O me, O life!" Walt Whitman
*"Song of Myself" Walt Whitman (excerpt)
*"The Flea" John Donne
*"This Is Just To Say" William Carlos Williams
*"Comment" Dorothy Parker
*"Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur" Lewis Carroll (excerpt)
*"The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" Guy Wetmore Carryl
*"Marginalia" Billy Collins (excerpt) (particularly appropriate, considering
Somebody's genesis) (I'm tempted to do "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's
Clothes" for the same reason, but it'd be nice to have a collection of poems
I could give to, say, a junior-high student to get them interested in
poetry. And the combination of a nude Emily and a voyeuristic frog seems
ill-advised.)
*pity this busy monster, manunkind" EE Cummings (although something with
more weird punctuation would provide more chances for silly visual jokes.
Semicolons raining down on poor Somebody.)
*"suppose" EE Cummings

Further suggestions?

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