#engl480 also what fascinates me most about the three pleasures is that many characters are REAL PEOPLE!!! who lived very recently!!! what are the ethics of writing these stories??? I would love to sit and pick Mr. Watada's brain ๐ฏ
#engl480 when I'm reading Nao's parts I feel like she's talking to me directly and I totally forget that Ruth is reading the diary too, thinking the same thing...
#engl480 kind of understand how this feels, though... when I've gone camping/away and shut off all my devices, it does feel like time and timekeeping feel different. I feel like I'm in a different 'time'
#engl480 pg. 172: "The world was restored to its place in time, and her mind was back online." wow!! so when the power is out and there is no Internet, is/does it feel like Ruth's world slipping back in time? kinda suggesting that the Internet is crucial to our current moment 1/2
#engl480 my reasoning: cortes as in hernรกn cortรฉs, and also bc part of cortes island is traditional lands of Sliammon people - and Muriel tells a Sliammon story about "Grandmother Crow, or T'ets" on page 96
#engl480 also thinking about the impossibility of condensing whole lives into one, two pages. how can we retain history beyond 'facts'? 2/2 https://t.co/K9ZGNGREJa