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I kept on creeping just the same
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Mar 22
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Jessie Morgan
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Dat truck dah is trash.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Mar 16
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Jessie Morgan
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Dat truck dah is trash.
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What would he do, or rather what ought he to do, in such a crisis of a lifetime?
Part II on "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chestnutt and "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E. Hopkins
Mar 8
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Jessie Morgan
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No man is brave enough to face such a situation.
Part I on Pauline E. Hopkins, "Talma Gordon" (1900) with Charles Chestnutt, "The Wife of his Youth" (1898, 1899)
Mar 1
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Jessie Morgan
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February 2024
With silent lips.
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
Feb 9
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Jessie Morgan
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January 2024
Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.
Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)
Jan 20
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Jessie Morgan
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Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)
Jan 12
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Jessie Morgan
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It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Jan 5
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Jessie Morgan
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It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance.
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December 2023
Notes friends tied to the doorknob
"Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye (1995)
Dec 23, 2023
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Jessie Morgan
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November 2023
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1848)
Nov 25, 2023
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Jessie Morgan
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Although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want
Edward Winslow, from "Mourt's Relation"
Nov 17, 2023
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Jessie Morgan
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His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Washington Irving
Nov 10, 2023
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