Andrew Albano I really enjoyed reading and talking about your commonplace book this semester. I feel like you made a collaborative effort in both the visual and written areas by not only analyzing key...Read More
“[T]he practice of maintaining a commonplace book and exchanging texts with others also served as a form of self-definition: which poems or aphorisms you chose to copy into your book or to pass on ...Read More
After finishing the novel of Dracula, I was very curious about any possible connections, or real life scenarios that would give Stoker this monstrous idea for a book. I also was curious on the reoccur...Read More
Quotation: “She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:- “come to me Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come and we can ...Read More
While progressing through our reading of Dracula, I can not help but notice the rapid growing of abductions and “coincidental bite marks” on the necks of people, especially children after ...Read More
Quotation: “The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of ...Read More
When concluding the reading of The Beetle by Richard Marsh, my final thoughts of The Beetle is that this ancient Egyptian entity had a vengeful purpose in mind and was drawn to England to enact reveng...Read More
Quotation: “As I approached the bed, he raised himself to a sitting posture, as, in the morning, he had done in the street, and he exclaimed, as if he addressed himself to someone whom he saw in...Read More
Throughout the duration of reading The Beetle by Richard Marsh, I can see the further connection of Stephen King’s It and how it would be a link between the two novels. As the novel progresses, ...Read More
Quote: “Fingers prodded me then and there, as if I had some beast ready for the butchers stall. A face looked into mine, and in front of me, were those dreadful eyes. Then whether I was dead or ...Read More