Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a pogrom in the dark heart of medieval Europe, a young Jewish man is castrated for having seduced the local tax collector's wife. Through his agony, he hears a voice telling him to go to Jerusalem. It is a popular idea. Half the world seems headed in the same direction, whipped by Pope Urban II into the frenzy that will later be called the First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli...
...dark upstairs at Satch's, and the audience of 20 or so is looking around, trying to figure out what's going on up on the small stage. Gradually, the lights come up and the booming theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard...
After I finished my other two term papers on light and dark imagery in "Romeo and Juliet." I gave all three to Robert N. Watson, assistant professor of English. The following is the finished product, with both excerpts from the papers and Watson's comments...
...thought of "Light and Dark Imagery" manages to be both terribly simple and terribly scattered. The paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...
...dark when he awakened. Her hair was spread over his shoulder in a wave... She turned to him... "I believe in love," she said. Her face hung over...