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...Consider: Brown's novel proposed an alternate history of Christianity, wherein a bitter schism took place shortly after Jesus' death, between the mean patriarchal faction who concealed Jesus' marriage and the nice faction consisting of startlingly liberal first-wave feminists. In other words, The Da Vinci Code recasts the history of Christianity into something that looks a lot more like the history of ... Islam, wherein an early schism took place between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. Could the book's passionate following in a predominantly Christian America express a secret, even unconscious sympathetic identification with Islam? Or a repressed...
While the television show will naturally reach a much larger audience than the course ever has, we hope that this extension of information beyond Harvard also takes place on the Internet and in other media forms other than television. To that end, it is encouraging to see that the show’s website already includes interactive online content that will enable viewers to participate more actively in the debates they encounter on the show. Each episode features discussion guides at beginner and advanced levels; there are also pop quizzes, discussion circles, and downloadable versions of the readings...
While the selection is limited, the atmosphere is rowdy, and the service is subpar, the Quincy Grille is the only place to get food where everybody knows your name. Whether ordering mozz sticks, chicken fingers, a cheeseburger, or sweet potato fries, chances are the person serving it is someone you had in section, someone you hooked up with, or your blockmate. While you can only pay for this greasy goodness with cash, you can always ask your teammate sitting at the table over to spot...
...novelist has is to the novel. I think that the notion that you would portray something as it really is in fiction is not exactly right. I think that fiction is not about portraying its topics with fact-checkable verisimilitude so much as understanding the sense of a place. And in that I think the trick is to be loyal to one’s own sensibility as a writer rather than any ideas about truth, which are really up for debate...
...noticed that a lot of the story takes place in Daedalus. Did you hang out there a lot as an undergrad...