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...premise is intriguing: Scarry claims we imagine best when guided word by word, as in great literature. Whatever we imagine without this guidance is dull and unsatisfying compared to the detail and life our imaginings attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples). She claims that the "ordinary enfeeblement of images has a striking exception in the verbal arts, where images somehow do acquire the vivacity of perceptual objects, and it is the purpose of this book to trace some of the ways this comes about." Literature contains structures and formats that allow...
...maintain that a large part of the population is condemned to failure from the outset would require a ruthlessness that Americans cannot muster except in jest (which might be why American comedy is largely about outrageous losers, like Kramer, Dilbert and Homer Simpson...
...Homer would like to see Dorm Crew's early fall clean-up receive as much publicity as the Freshman Arts Program or the Freshman Outdoors Program...
...best way to attract people is to get a group of people out there saying, 'This is not bad work," Homer says...
...There is good management career potential there," Homer says. "If you can get your classmates to clean bathrooms, when you graduate you can probably get anybody to do just about anything...