Lots of interesting conversations developing across the groups this week:
Tortola Tailspin focuses on Blair’s defense of the mysterious creature, quoting Blair’s scolding:
And just because it looks unlike men, you don’t have to accuse it of being evil or vicious or something.
Just because its nature is different, you haven’t any right to say it’s necessarily evil.
(My own thoughts—does the fact that Blair himself turns out to be a thing undercut his plea for cultural relativism?). In terms of the movie The Thing, several students thought the book was better—though our purpose should not really be judging which is “better”; rather, how are they different? How are the thematic trajectories of the two texts different?
And in non-shapeshifting alien-related posts, Matt provides an excellent model for using a recurring image (that of water) to get at deeper themes of “The Comet,” while Britt highlights the spatial metaphors of height and depths used in DuBois’s story.
