The Politicization of Plagiarism

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. 

- E.E. Cummings 

Ursula's Demand

Do not consider me now 
as an elegant female intending to plague you, 

but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. 

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 

Marching Orders

What does reason know?
Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then & Now

Slab Work

Rage

I liked being a person.
I wanted to keep at it.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Round & Round

All go to one place: 
all are from the dust, 
and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:20  

The Indifference Death Knell

The Memory Pool

A Spoonful at a Time

Quiet Assertion

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves?
Even while we're still alive?
We wish to assert our existence, 
like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.


- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin  

Silver Linings

The Descent

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 

Grief That Does Not Speak

Vicissitude

The Wide World

The universe is wider than our views of it.

-Henry David Thoreau 

The Chain We Forge

"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling.

"Tell me why?"

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost.

"I made it link by link, and yard by yard, 

I girded it on of my own free will, 

and of my own free will I wore it."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 

Jealousy

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster,
which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

-Shakespeare, Othello

Nobody's Perfect

Backdraft

I took a deep breath 
and listened to the old brag of my heart.

I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar