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.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Tayler B. pd 3


       The thing that I found most interesting about the article was when he was talking about how he will never run out of source material to run out of source material. My favorite quote was "The essay-writer has no lack of subject-matter. He has the  day that is passing over his head; and, if unsatisfied with  that, he has the world’s six thousand years to depasture  his gay or serious humour upon". this quote means that even if you have nothing important going on in your life to write about. you can always do a running commentary on history. their is never a lack of material we are each a unique human being and what we say matters to people. we are almost never just repeating what other people have already said we can provide valuable insight to a situation we can make it funny or really sad. their is a never ending list of source material that this paper points out we can write about and that is extremely beautiful

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