9 April 2018: "It's in the future past..." --a student in my ENGL 360 class discussing the way that Junot Díaz plays with our conceptions of time in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Now I know that comment appears to make little sense to people who haven't read the book, but all of us knew exactly what she meant.
I always love returning to this text and teaching it. And in a semester/year (decade?) where I have been thinking some big thoughts, I am continually grateful for the novel's assertion that sometimes "The only way out is in..."
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