“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, November 9, 2012

Reading

One great thing about these Rice students—they are all incredible close readers. It's still the meat and potatoes of any kind of art or cultural study. Doing it well is a skill you can learn, up to a point.

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