Week 35
Some writers will forever be identified with a time period. Ken Kesey will forever be labeled and pigeon holed into the 1960s, along with the Grateful Dead. The movement in the 60s was the psychedelic revolution. The first “acid tests” were happening and LSD was being introduced. Kesey, part of the counterculture movement, and his friends became known as the Merry Pranksters. They were notorious for their “acid tests” and use of LSD. It was his experience with LSD that altered Kesey professionally and personally. While he worked at a psychiatric ward, he had hallucinations about an Indian sweeping floors. Thus, this became the foundation for his novel.
Have a good week and we will talk more!
Here are your assignments/Agenda for Week 35:
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posted by fdileo @ 4:51 PM
18 Comments:
Mr. DiLeo, I think an extension for the first 90 pages of Cuckoo's Nest is very advisable.
I mean, come on. The speaker is neurotic. I end up reading the same page for like, 5 minutes. And I still don't get it. All I know is that he's half-Indian, paranoid, and big.
This book hurts. We might be trucking a bit too hard; no, we are trucking too hard.
I'm almost in tears right now, and Leandra is burnt out, and Mark thinks Kesey should read his own book and suffer the agonies of annotations.
Extensions help.
-Latesia
I too think it is "advisable".
Actually, more than advisable.
As I read this book, it continuously manages to kill me from the inside out. I've actually scribbled in the book...I drew the line at the point where I started hating it...(yes, an actual line, I highlighted over the line too).
If I have to read any further, I'll end up in the exact same mental hospital we're reading about, and I swear my name will write itself on those pages, conveniently editing itself into every Cuckoo's Nest book ever printed.
I beg you, Mr. Di Leo, stop the pain, or at least spread it out a bit further....
-Mark, or what's left of me
This is Leandra... I've been annotating since yesterday and today and I've only got to page 72.... I am indeed burnt out from annotations and would like to know if we could have till Tuesday (checking wise)....
I still have to finish that essay and do three chemistry packets...
- Leandra
This book is unwillingly giving me a labotomy....I...can't even type without using "...". I can't even use complete sentences... stuffs book in mouth and swallows whole....
-Leandra
Okay, really Mr. DiLeo. I'm getting kind of desperate hear. I can't do 90 pages of tomorrow. I'm dead serious, I really can't. I agree with Mark: this book is killing me, and I'm losing my mind.
Me and Leandra laughed hysterically for 4 minutes over the phone because of Cuckoo's Nest.
It was the bad type of hysterical, the type you wish you weren't hearing.
But really, can we at least have Tuesday? Cuckoo's Nest is not pleasant. And just...no
Testiment to how haggard Cuckoo's Nest is running me, look at the amount of typos in my last post.
Kesey's LSD ramblings suck to annotate. And I'm done complaining now. Bye bye, DiLeo-kun; it's been fun; hopefully I'll make it to class tomorrow.
-Latesia
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Hi Mr. DiLeo,
Thanks for the updates. I'm really enjoying Cuckoo's Nest.
See you tomorrow.
Sarah
What...
you guys scare me...
I'm SAVING myself with -chemistry homework-
This book KILLS me
-Mark
He only has 2 minutes before I just give up entirely on ever having a coherent thought process ever again..
okay===tues is the day
THANK YOU MR DILEO I LOVE YOU
I love you Di Leo kun! kukukukukukukuku!
-Leandra
P.S.- <3
OH MY GOODNESS.
Thanks a lot DiLeo-kun!!!! I love you!!!
rawr!!!!!
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You all are such whiners :D
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