I've been selling myself short by only having a photo blog. I've been missing out on the true meaning of a weblog. Anyway I've been meaning to make one of these things for a while but I get occupied with my other blog.
The reason I'm up so late is because I'm writing a four paragraph essay! Yeah I would wait until the last minute... but at least I'm in a better position than I'm used to being in: I understand what the hell I'm doing. It's an essay on another essay. If you can comprehend that, I'm writing about Montaigne's essay "Of The Education of Children". Sounds easy enough, but it's literature from the 1500s, and a bitch to comprehend. But, I'm getting it and mixing it around in my brain.
One aphorism I'm particularly fond of is when Montainge states,
"It is no more according to Plato than according to me, since he and I understand and see it in the same way,"
If you don't know what an aphorism is and can't be bothered to look it up - an aphorism is a brief statement of truth. The way my professor put it, was, "It's that one zinger sentence that stands out like a gem,"
I have two and a half paragraphs to write, what the hell am I doing!?
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