Supercool Ultrafun Summertime Reading List from Hell! … not really Written by Shawn Funk You are doing great if you can read one book a month during your summer break! If you can read two a month, even better. But please, don’t be inspired by the nitwit from Microsoft, who tells everyone he reads 100 books a year; this is impractical. Reading is as much about thinking and imagining as it is about reading the words on the page. Don’t get caught up in quantity. Don’t read a book just to get to the end. Enjoy it as it unfolds in your mind. Passively skimming a book won’t activate your…
Obscenity at its Finest: Dirty books you can find at the U of L Library By: Shawn Funk “What is obvious is that the words in these cases have been dirtied by the mind, by unclean mental associations.” D.H. Lawrence, Introduction to Pansies Language is constantly evolving, meanings change, new words are created, old words fall out of use. We classify our words too, and we give them different values. Some words are “good” while other words are “bad”. Some bad words are also called dirty words, and dirty words get lots of attention; the others not so much. For example, there are many four-letter words beginning in the…
