![]() Students sometimes find out because they are searching for summaries. Virtually all of the scholarship and most of the online articles written about this novel refer to the Calcutec as “Watashi” and the Dreamreader as “Boku.” ![]() When teaching this novel, I deliberately choose not to reveal this difference in pronouns to students until they have finished the novel. Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke on Race, Writing, and Friendship.Kenneth Burke on Reading for Identification.Lost in Translation: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.Ray Bradbury on the Seduction of Space in The Rocket Man.Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read.Walter Benjamin on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.Simone Weil on the Generosity of Attention in Gravity and Grace.Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Ambiguity and Existential Courage.The Role of Reciprocity in Nature in Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes.Bridge and Door: Georg Simmel on How Separation Inspires Human Connection. ![]() ![]() Mary Oliver Finds the Antidote to Confusion in Literature.Transforming 1984: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Wonder With How We Read.Ethics of the Infinite: The Origins of Radical Responsibility in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas. ![]()
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