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...Romantics? Okay. You could write about…Wordsworth. And the Luddites! Wordsworth in relation to the Luddites...
...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.” My tutor looked thoughtful, although she may just have been trying to suppress her disdain...
...Despite my enthusiasm for the concept of thesis-writing (and the concept of six months of academically-sanctioned self-involvement is very appealing), the process of choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense...
...performing, Fey doesn't plan to do much more of it. A former member of Second City, she says she goes out for auditions but has never landed an acting part--the closest she has come being a callback for Down with Love. So in addition to keeping the writing gig she has had for seven years at SNL, she's also working on a sitcom-development deal at NBC. And she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts. "My role model is Harold Ramis," she says, referring to the writer of such movies...
...still trying to write a decent song. I'll get there." PAUL MCCARTNEY, former Beatle, on why he hasn't considered retiring...