Okay, so the next 8 reading assignments are short stories. There's no way I can read a short story in instalments, so I'll only be blogging twice a week for the next month, starting today.
And the rest of this week is kind of brutal, what with the first Grammar exam on Thursday, the Journalism class starting again on Thursday, my Calculus class taking their first exam on Friday, my first Translation presentation on Friday, and my first Photography assignment due on Saturday, so I'll probably not get back to the blog again before Saturday.
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6:45 p.m. "The Last Speaker of the Language" by Carol Anshaw. 15 pages.
6:46 p.m. Researched Five O'Clock Vodka on the internet. Surprised I haven't heard of it before. One of my teachers once said one of the best ways to get wasted was to not eat anything all day, drink one shot of vodka at 4 p.m., and then drink beer after beer---I wonder whether that's going to be relevant for this story.
6:50 p.m. I like present tense narration :) It is vaguely reminiscent of Konjunktiv eins ... where are the snows of yesteryear?
6:57 p.m. First three pages introduced characters and set the scene, then conflict drops out of the blue sky on p. 4, but somehow manages to sound not abrupt. I'm liking this :)
7:01 p.m. Especially that the montage method works so well!
7:04 p.m. Spent a couple of minutes researching montage on the internet. It turns out that there's a whole theory of it. Will read up on it some day (Sunday?).
7:08 p.m. What exactly would "Wicked" be? No clue, but I didn't look up that one.
7:11 p.m. Mood hurt by the word "excelsior", because it reminded me of the superlame movie from Saturday night.
7:12 p.m. "Nuclear reactor." Hitting me over the head with a symbol?
7:27 p.m. Okay, beautiful story. The only two things I didn't like were "excelsior" and "thirdhand cigarette smoke" ... More on Saturday!
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