Moonie's Ramblings

[Prof. Moonie]

I think people should do this more often during group discussions. 3nodding Especially when some people forget parts of what they want to talk about.

"He that would speak, rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him 5 or 6 minutes to recollect, that, if he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has anything to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent" (535).

I totally agree that last part. I hate when people interrupt me when I'm trying to say something. Especially if I'm really going on talking about something.

The piece continues talking about how this is different from the British lifestyle, where the "[British House of Commons] speaker [becomes] hoarse in calling to order" or are "cut off... by the impatient loquacity of those who you converse with, and never suffered to finish it" (535).  

[Prof. Moonie]

*chuckles* This part amused me - a Swedish minister is giving a sermon to the Susquehanah Indians. One of the Indian orators stood up and responded: "It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider" (535). xd  

[Prof. Moonie]

Booyah! You show that minister! biggrin

After the minister shared some parts of the Gospel to the Indians, the Indian speaker shared one of their sacred tales. The minister responded in disgust and called the tale simply a "fable, fiction, and falsehood" (536). "The Indian, offended, replied, 'My Brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that we, who understand and practice these rules, believed all of your stories: why do you refuse to believe ours?" (536).  

[Prof. Moonie]

And that finishes that piece. *goes to write the section for that reading*

When I'm done, I'm going to go take a shower.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Holy smokes. Most of the my response about Benjamin Franklin's piece takes up most of the page. And I didn't even quote everything that I responded to. I ended up ending the section about Franklin's piece with this: "There are plenty more statements that I enjoyed reading in this piece, that it would be hard to quote them all without posting the entire text."  

[Prof. Moonie]

Okay. I'm off to take a shower now.  

[Prof. Moonie]

I'm back.  

[Prof. Moonie]

*finishes reading the second reading requirement for her 19th c. class**starts the third one*  

[Prof. Moonie]

Hmm... I better eat some lunch before I start the third reading. 3nodding  

[Prof. Moonie]

Off to eat some lunch.  

[Prof. Moonie]

*waiting for lunch to finish heating up*

I'm going to be going to town after lunch. So I'll talk to you later.  

[Prof. Moonie]

I'm back from town. I've decided to starting reading the required reading for my Environment & Human Life class instead of the third reading for my 19th century Literature class, since I already finished the CR for it. I can read that reading later. Still need to read Julius Caesar for my Shakespeare class... but I'm still pretty familiar with the storyline, since I've covered it before in the past... so I'm waiting to do that. xd  

[Prof. Moonie]

So why am I doing the Environment class homework right now? Because for the Lab section, there's a quiz we have to do before the day of the Lab (Friday). So... I want to get that done and over with, before I worry about the rest of the stuff.  

[Prof. Moonie]

It's very interesting reading this scientific article. It's a bit different than other scientific articles I've read, mostly because this is a generalized essay-like article rather than the usual hypothesis/theory/etc. on a particular subject (i.e. lynx hunting hares).  

[Prof. Moonie]

This is so true: "As Coleridge said, 'Genius resides in a
combination of a child’s sense of magic and an
adult’s trained mentality."