Read Patrick Madden's essay, "The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things". This essay can be found on our class webpage under SLCC documents. The excerpt comes from his book of nonfiction entitled Quotidiana.

After reading , respond to the prompts below in a thoughtful and well written response. Be sure to put your name and period in the title.

Assignment: In a paragraph (about 200 words) respond to either the author (what do you find interesting about his take on essays), or write a response on how you personally view his perspective. Refer to specific parts (passages or quotations) of the essay as you reflect and respond. or write a reflection as the post/article relates to you personally.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Mikeyla Thomas
Pd.5

I believe Patrick Madden's theory on writing essays, and how you can never really run out of ideas to write about. In the piece I read he told a quote by Scott Russell Sanders saying that we "sleep" through half our lives and only wake up when something stir us out of our daze. Most people go through there lives with out noticing that they are in a daze, and miss out on a lot. Patrick Madden wants to stay out of the daze and write about all of the experiences he has. If you live by his theory when writing you will never run out of topics.
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