Noel Fitch . . . believed great literature "grapples with truth, with the big questions about life and God and nature." While the Bible contains truth about salvation, great literature contains truth about how to live in a world where absolutes and the definition of perfection are "shrouded in the dust and cloud of the human condition, of our finiteness and sin." Literature reflects the ambiguity of the world, and from that literature students can learn to deal openly and honestly with their doubts and experiences.
“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The perks of being an indexer.
So I picked up a little job last week marking all the indexed terms in a book that the Point Loma Press on campus is reprinting: For Zion's Sake by Ronald Kirkemo. It's essentially a history of the university, filled with crises and conflicts and nostalgia, church politics, Wesleyans and Nazarene prevening grace. I got to read snippets of it as I flipped through highlighting names. This was one of my favorites, about a mid-20th century lit prof:
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ReplyDeleteThat's quite the niche marketing campaign you've got going—individual appeals. I guess it makes sense in an age of self-publishing. Kudos on the Tim O'Brien endorsement...
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