Notes for 14 April 2016

LITCS 111
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Spring 2016

• Admin things?
  • Or interpretive problems with Light in August?
  • Or other questions, or other issues?
• Let's take a look at recent journal entries.
• Other points for discussion:
  • Sitting on two of the backless stools at the counter, [...] [...] And the dinner there is cheap. (174–75, ch. 8).
  • She covered herself, sitting on the bed, still, down-looking. [...] [...] For sweet Jesus. (192; ch. 8)
  • The horse was not even trotting now, [...] dappled by moonshadows. (210; ch. 9)
  • Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. [...] go on now get out of here (220–21; very beginning of ch. 10)
  • The whiskey did away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. [...] and then told them he was a negro. (223–24; ch. 10)
  • Another damn black Burden, he said. [...] [...] In a hundred years they will be white folks again. (247–48; ch. 10)
  • His name was Calvin, like grandpa's, and he was as big as grandpa [...] [...] over a question of negro voting. (248; ch. 10)
  • ... and perhaps the last few pages of ch. 11.