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Travesties

By Erin • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: Honors Thesis, Literature, Research, history

Several ideas which appeared in Artist Descending a Staircase are elaborated upon in Travesties. A number of characters who are mentioned in the earlier play here appear onstage and state for themselves the opinions which other characters only touched on in Artist. Several passages seem to come almost verbatim from the earlier play’s discussion on […]


Deer in the Headlights.

By mablaa • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: General Technology, Research, history

OK, time to get started here. The above photo shows me in the lap of Alma Mater, the “nourishing mother” of scholarship, bearing an expression which adequately conveys my sense of frightened excitement as I stand upon the brink of a senior thesis. This new blog will chronicle my year-long journey through the personal nirvana/hell […]