Alphonso Lingis

Philosophy of language. Useful in stories unit. (Previously centered on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God). This essay makes a point similar to that made by the NY Times Article "This is Your Life (And How You Tell It)." I've been listening to Anna Karenina; Tolstoy makes a similar point in his interest in propriety. People so frequently act and speak according to who they think they and others should be, not who they are.

"every notary bears within him the débris of a poet." -Flaubert