I started to create a blog for my capstone class when I thought that class is really about incorporating all of the classes I've taken and making one whole or something. I don't really know; I've been an English major for under a year still. With that thought, though, I decided to make only one blog even though I have two different classes (Emergent Lit and the capstone one) that require blogs. I feel like most of the students in one class is in the other anyway.

I ordered most of my books from the internet this semester, and today more of them came in. I got my copy of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets today. I put it in my pocket and kept it with me as I headed to nutrition class. I read some of it before nutrition class started.

This part of my blog is a funny thought about Friday's lecture in Emergent Lit. It relates to something I learned in high school Latin class. On Friday we talked about a circle that was divided in half. Inside the circle represented literature. In one half of the circle was literature that filled the reader up. Dr. Sexson called it 'plenosis.' The other side was literature that emptied the reader. It was labeled 'kenosis.' When we talked about plenosis, we talked about things like comedies where a man "gets the girl" and goes on to do what we implied happened after that--a "walls of Jericho situation." It seems, at least to me, that the word plenosis comes from the Latin word plenus, which means full. It's not very funny, but it is a little bit funny because plenus is also the Latin word for pregnant, which is the end result in plenosis-type literature.