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...writer is a resident tutor in Quincy House...
...don’t know,” I told my tutor. “I like riots, especially ones involving sledgehammers. Also, um, Thomas Wolfe. I don’t mind Dreiser. Dickens. Victorians. The Romantics...
...Exactly,” my tutor said, nodding her head significantly and leaning back in her chair. “Exactly...
Because this is the tail end of my junior year, and because I am concentrating in History and Literature, where theses are de rigeur, my tutor and I have been discussing potential thesis topics. Although many of my classmates have submitted thesis-research grant applications in which they use the word “agency” a lot, I have only gotten as far as free-associating about nineteenth-century machine breakers...
...know, the Luddites used to pound down mill doors with this giant hammer they called ‘Enoch,’” I told my tutor. “They named it after one of the guys who built power looms, and as they smashed they’d chant, ‘Enoch made it!/ Enoch will break it’ in time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers...