Paper Update

Just finished revising the introduction. Much happier with it now.

I decided to quote Helen Vendler at some length, and I have a feeling I'll have to revise that out when this becomes a writing sample or they'll never let me into a PhD program. In a way I wish I didn't know that. My problem is that I'm trend-obsessed enough to reject things I like because they're not cool, but not quite enough to adopt things that are trendy if I don't like them, so I end up just kind of lacking.

Here in the stove, we do like Helen Vendler, although we think she's wrong a lot (and sometimes crazy) when it comes to particular readings. She taught us a lot back in the day.