Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Third Article..a little late but hopefully worth it

This has been bothering me for days, and it's part of the reason my third posting is so late (big apologies Mr. Duncan!!!!). After bouncing some paper ideas off my fiance' (my paper is going to explore some of the ideas in "Liking What You See"), he said, "That reminds me of a story we read in EN101." This was the class that we met in but I didn't remember it, not at first. All he could remember was the character's last name being 'Bergeron'. Well, after trying to find a short story with only that clue, not an easy feat, I found it!
It's a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron". It's set in 2081 and humans are finally "equal", they've achieved this through a "Handicapper General" whose job it is to make sure no one is better than anyone else whether by brains, talent or beauty. I think its a good contrast to "Liking What You See", more extreme than callignosia but along the same line of thinking.
-Liz

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