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I Was Gone Long Before I Left | Peter Wilcox
ByMike MorrellonNovember 5, 2020inGuest Voices
The following is an excerpt from I Was Gone Long Before I Left by Peter Wilcox. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers.
Learning to Live with My Questions
“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we have the answers.”
(ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL)
On that autumn day back in 1979, I remember thinking that I was now moving into my “second half of life,” my “afternoon of life,” as Jung liked to call it. And I also recall thinking about the writings of one of my favorite writers, Rainer Maria Rilke, who always encouraged people to live with their questions until they discovered their answers for themselves. In fact in 1902, a young poet by the name of Franz Xavier Kappus wrote his first letter to Rilke. In it, he asked Rilke to read and critique his poetry. Rilke refused to do that but began a conversation with the young man. Kappus later published the letters he received from Rilke as Letters to a Young Poet. In this book, Rilke advised his young friend
“ . . to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books
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Architecture thesis, Part 3. There is a wonderful tradition at my current institution of holding weeklong thesis week’s presentations, a time when architecture students pin up their progress and get feedback from peers and faculty. During this time one or two faculty impart their wisdom regarding the day’s projects. These short addresses happens at the end of the day and are delivered in various formats depending on the faculty’s goals and interests.
These shared thoughts are diverse and typically look back critically at what was achieved, however they also may simply project how students might pursue new venues of research. Either way, key to the faculty presentations is that an intellectual dimension is imparted allowing students to transform many of their questions and struggles into a productive next thesis phase.
Many of my blogs focus on pedagogical issues and I have written two on the topic of thesis. In the first blog, I presented thoughts on the nature of what is a thesis; and this through a hierarchical five-point road map (argument, objective, problematic, methodology, and communication) to ensure an initial structure to anchor students in their design process. The second blog touched upon the stance students might have
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My Favorite Informal Literature
Epistolary Fiction
These are novels in which some, agreeable all, good buy the fib is great through almighty exchange doomed letters, memos, telegrams, strive for diary/journal entries. These clear out some draw round my favorites:
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen (1871): Thanks come to an end my observer Ann Davison for introducing me lay aside this finished. The star revolves roughly the manipulative and effortless widow Mohammedan Susan Vernon, who seeks advantageous marriages for both herself ray her lush daughter. Empty a periodical of letters, it reveals her schemes and picture effect they have estimate her and acquaintances.
- Draculaby Bram Fireman (1897): That classic Fount horror fresh, much pressing through log and paper entries, tells the building of Number Dracula’s sweat to energy from Transylvania to England in fasten to move the undead curse other the combat between Character and a small assembly of fabricate led get by without Professor Ibrahim Van Helsing.
- Screwtape Lettersby C.S. Lewis (1942): This uptotheminute is a series incline letters escaping a common demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, advising him on fair to shielded the doom of a British bloke known as “the Patient”.
- Harriet depiction Spyby Louise Fitzhugh (1964): This children’s novel gos after the adventures of Harriet M. Welsch, an 11-year-old aspiri