Pullman – Further Annotations

Maybe I should stop bringing up my cat so much when people tell me stories about their kids. #Not https://t.co/6lwPeBOSYi

— G.B. Gabbler (@CircoFootnotes) November 14, 2015

Phillip Pullman on the "Young Adult" label and why he respects Lewis more than Tolkien… https://t.co/Ec0tuAXr3G

— G.B. Gabbler (@CircoFootnotes) November 10, 2015

"Homer's description of these metallic ladies as accomplished, smart, and strong has surprising… https://t.co/hm2j9yEJMv via @CircoFootnotes

— Linnea Tanner (@linneatanner) November 9, 2015

11/13/15. Odys Odelyn would hate this day. #TheAutomation #OCD #Evens #Odds

— G.B. Gabbler (@CircoFootnotes) November 14, 2015

P.S. I love that book!: REVIEW: THE AUTOMATION by G. B. Gabbler https://t.co/Qqu6saaN9i

— G.B. Gabbler (@CircoFootnotes) November 14, 2015

Watch students realize Arabic and Spanish aren't very different: https://t.co/yX8eJ6NG53

— G.B. Gabbler (@CircoFootnotes) November 12, 2015

…We are running out of “appropriate” bird idioms. Please give us some more to work with!

And despite the profound and unsettling discoveries of modernism and post-modernism, and everything they show us about the unreliability of the narrator and the fallacy of omniscience, some of us still, when we read, are happy to accept that the narrative voice has the right to comment on a character, whether tartly or sympathetically, and the ability to go into that character’s mind and tell us what’s going on there. Do we ever stop to wonder how extraordinary it is that a disembodied voice can seem to tell us what is happening in someone’s mind?

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