My students sometimes ask me, "Why do we have to read? Can't we just watch the movie?"
Reading what someone else has written, with words I wish were mine, connects me in a way that movies or television can't. My friend Chella has posted on her blog a Langston Hughes poem I had never read before. It says what I can't.
She also e-mailed to me the NY Times article by Maureen Dowd.
What's happening isn't a movie. I wish it was only that.
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i'm touched that you linked the hughes poem and dowd article. must figure out how to link sites within my text. c
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