"A compulsion toward over-informedness is most apt to occur in individuals who have been arrested at a graduate school level of development.... If the desire to shine as a pupil is sustained too long it can cause even the most committed worker to work badly.... When she attends directly to her gut, [Joyce Carol Oates] writes powerfully, but the star pupils in the creative writing classes of America are more apt to get praised for fine expressions than for attending to their gut; sensibility, not force, is what teachers leap to praise, which may indirectly explain Miss Oates's almost invariable tendency to over-write"--Film Flam
Saw the Bruce Lee martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (for the second time) at the Royal. No deep thinking, just fun. [My favorite part: the Battle of the Guards.]
John and Kathrine came over and picked most of the remaining cherries. They stayed for dinner, which was pizza.
We set up the VCR-DVD player with the upstairs TV. But the satellite dish connection to the converter came loose and it took Father a while to reconnect it.
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