From f103b8b637a7b868b864c5e7c49e3feada1291ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:07:30 -0500 Subject: update: mostly literature --- jones-la/letter.tex | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ jones-la/quick1.tex | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 jones-la/letter.tex create mode 100644 jones-la/quick1.tex (limited to 'jones-la') diff --git a/jones-la/letter.tex b/jones-la/letter.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d22a4a --- /dev/null +++ b/jones-la/letter.tex @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +\headline={\hfil 10 May, 1703} +\nopagenumbers +\noindent Dear People of Salem, \bigskip + +You each and all embody the corruption of Godgiven morality, and I condemn you on His behalf. +There is no excuse for your unjust convictions of myself, my wife, and our fellow countrymen. +Your rascality forces me to die for your indulgences---something no man ought face without cause, of which I know you to have had none for you heathens would have taken any confession, regardless of its truth simply to save your reputations. +My name has been preserved but not without the loss of fibrousness throughout the great providence of Massachussets. +Had I falsely confessed as you sinners wish, I would become equally corrupted; I would be a co-conspirator in the murder of my wife and of Rebecca. +And it is by your illicit errors. + +Parris, you could not see past your own greed and conniptions. + +Putnam and Goody Putnam, you have wrought upon us your ineptitudes, and you have permitted no man to escape your lust. +Both of you lust yet for power, for land, for wealth without bound. +It is not a Godfearing man's prerogative to accuse his fellows of wizardry and bewitching. +But it is that of a scoundrel. + +And Abigail, you have committed the gravest sin yet: false witness, adultery, and disrespecting God Himself. +It is not my position that you are deserving of hanging or of burning at the stake. +But Abigail, girl, you have atonement yet far beyond any reasonable amount for any singular person. + +God scowls at your souls, for the barbaric murder of Rebecca---the godliest woman any of you have set your eyes save Mary of Nazareth herself. +For the inhesitant killing of Elizabeth. +For thine false witness and thine worship of those other than Him. +For the ineptitude and for your inconsiderations. +How may you walk free from your sins when you could have prevented every death by your very own hands. + +If Danforth were but an iota less hasty, if Parris had listened to but a fragment of Rebecca's words, if Abigail and her goons were not trusted beyond the word of god Himself, if Putnam had admitted to a singular falsity, if Corey's witness were not neglected beyond sense, perhaps I would not be hanged. + +\bigskip +\noindent Yours truly, +%\noindent Fuck you, +\smallskip\noindent John Proctor + +\bye diff --git a/jones-la/quick1.tex b/jones-la/quick1.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66d210d --- /dev/null +++ b/jones-la/quick1.tex @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +\input mla8.tex + +\numberfirstpage +\clas{AP Lang} +\name{Holden} \last{Rohrer} +\prof{Jones} +\header +\title{``Enchanted Objects'' in the Great Gatsby} + +In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby's enchanted object is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. +Nick considers it to be enchanted or magcal because the green light is a symbol---a symbol of longing. +I have no enchanted object of similar magnitude to Gatsby's because I don't long for much; in fact, what could be considered an enchanted object is already close to me. +For my ``enchanted object,'' I would probably list something given to me as a gift by my grandmother---a small metal rod that vibrates at a particular frequency. +It, specifically, holds no special emotional or symbolic importance, but I value it greatly because it represents my family, somewhat. + +Both my sisters and I have one of them, and I believe my grandmother got them from a trip oversease somewhere, and they are not unique or rare. +But I value it because the object is representative of her relationship with me and my immediate family. +She's an admirably giving person, and the small metal rod represents that despite its lack of intrinsic or attributed individual value. +Separate from Gatsby, I don't think the enchantment of the object could be lost---I already own it, and it's not associated with any longing or any conflict which could possibly be resolved at some point in the future. +So it is static. +The enchantment of the object is derived from a general sense of emotional attachment to it, but like Gatsby's enchantment, it is valuable and relevant. +The object holds value despite its materialism. + +\bye -- cgit