Monday, October 27, 2008

Assignment for Wednesday

Called it Wednesday at midnight, if you wish.

I'm groggy and feverish, but not so groggy and feverish that I didn't notice that people did very well last week writing about whatever they felt like.

So, write an essay about any aspect of Lilith's Brood that interests you. You are welcome to use or ignore the anthropological material we talked about today; you are also welcome to use other texts from earlier in the semester, or not. You can certainly do something relating to human nature - but you don't have to.

One warning: the pitfall with this kind of assignment is that you can set yourself up to argue something which is simply too obvious to bother with. Reviewers especially should spend a minute asking themselves if they are dealing with an obvious argument, or with an argument that takes some of risks.

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