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.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Paul Isaacson, 7th period

I thought this memoir was cool. The guy kind of talked about things that he wanted to do, like he talked about how he wanted children. And then later in the story it talks about his children and their age. This memoir kind of showed the different views that people have on life. Like at the beginning, it talked about the main character and his memoirs that he wrote, and his boss told him, "well, what are you going to do after you have wrote about everything. You are just going to have to write the same things over again." But then the author said, "I could still wrote about children". And it kind of seemed like his boss didn't think there was that much to life. But he enjoyed life, and loved all of the little things in life. And there was endless stuff to write about for him, but for his boss, there wasn't.

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