Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flesh, charts the progression of an over-ripe and destructive appetite. The bohemian poet, Baal (Daniel Sussner '00), is an enormously charismatic man who desires to eat, fuck, experience and be everything, ultimately even death itself. He is forever yearning for the infinite "purple sky" and the "dark river" as he hurls himself through life. He despises the world of unctuous critics and bourgeois manners as he romanticizes the raw lower classes, but he eventually spews out both...
...believed were thereby blessed with a perfect existence for the next three years. I could not share in their joy, and I did not want their pity. By the end of the day, if I heard one more "I'm sorry" from a well-meaning (or malicious) future River resident, I thought I would have to become violent...
...feeling of being left out by the lottery did not end on that day. The entire spring was hard, because I had to readjust my thinking about what Harvard meant. As a first-year, I thought being a Harvard student meant living along the river, watching the rowers on the Charles, throwing frisbees on the MAC Quad on a spring day. Before I traveled to Currier for a welcome dinner on that day, I had been to the Quad once, by accident. We had to walk so far to get there, I thought it was off-campus...
Inspired by Professor James Kugel's description of ancient Canannite appeasement sacrifices in Literature and the Arts C-37: "The Bible and Its Interpreters," Adam G. Kosberg '00 "sacrificed" homemade voodoo dolls into the Charles River at midnight Wednesday to placate the "Quad Gods...
...when the whole world comes crashing down on you. It gets progressively easier to write, say, 1,000 words a day," he says. The transition from nonfiction to fiction was not awkward for Clark. "There is not a great distinction between the two," he says, explaining that he wrote River of the West as a story that happened to be based on actual events...