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...seem superfluous and irrelevant. But a writer who wishes to create realism and truth does not stick only to necessary details. Life, Wood argues, is “full of surplus detail,” like the cigar. If reality does not distinguish between indispensable and “gratuitous?? details, neither should the writer. In scrutinizing works, Wood “asks a critic’s questions and offers a writer’s answers.” His experience in both professions makes him particularly apt to do so.Still, readers looking for a revolutionary approach...
...year, I wouldn’t have minded continuing to live with the kids from that group. But many of us blocked with other people, and we were randomly assigned housing for a second time in our Harvard careers.As a result of this second–and I think gratuitous??randomization, my House experience was somewhat disorienting and left me searching for a real community at Harvard. “Community,” however, can be a pretty nebulous term. Was I looking for a group of kids from Texas? Did I want to live with other...
...still not certain why I’ve taken the classes that I have. In some way, they seem almost gratuitous??they’re not really practical and almost certainly will not factor into any future career. When I sit in section, surrounded by Divinity School students and devoutly religious undergrads who liberally sprinkle the discussion with direct quotes from Scripture and refer constantly to their well-worn pocket Bibles, I feel useless. So much of what they regard as fundamental truth appears, to me, the equivalent of a fairy tale. Approaching the material from...
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