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[kleenexwoman]

I'm not going to be posting the text of my Snow Crash vs. VALIS paper because I don't think it's all that well-written, as far as my papers go, but here is the summary:

Snow Crash and VALIS are both about people who get infected by informational viruses that turn out to be religion, but in Snow Crash, the virus is bad, gods aren't real, and the way we see reality is determined by language, whereas in VALIS, the virus is good, the gods are real, and reality is an illusion created by us being language. This might be because Philip K. Dick was schizophrenic and Neal Stephenson most likely has the Asperger's.

ETA: Hooray for totally changing your mind about the point of your analysis 1 hour before the paper is due. Whatever.

Hopefully I can whip five pages of babbling into something that says that coherently, and I can do it before 5 PM.

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[blueeye-jedi.livejournal.com]

>ETA: Hooray for totally changing your mind about the point of your analysis 1 hour before the paper is due. Whatever.

Yeah, been there. Sucks. However, I have always found those papers easier to (re)write.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I ended up tacking another paragraph onto it--good thing, since it was already too short. I usually just write those off, since there's often very little I can do with the deadline...