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TIME: 30 min.
DISTANCE: 3.6 mi.
TOTAL: 47 mi.
NOTES: Still with the shin splints. OW.
SHIRE-RECKONING: We see a Black Rider on the crest of the hill.
Professor Rabkin knows a good deal more about utopian literature than I do, so I found this lecture both interesting and enjoyable. He even brought me around on the subject of nomenclature. He uses eutopia for imagined societies which are unequivocally good, dystopia for imagined societies which are unequivocally bad, and utopia as the set containing both those subsets AND the imagined societies which are ambiguous. (He talked some about author intent, but that ended up getting kind of lost in the shuffle.)
Bonus points for discussing Herland--and he reminded me that it should, of course, be taught in juxtaposition with The Handmaid's Tale.
DISTANCE: 3.6 mi.
TOTAL: 47 mi.
NOTES: Still with the shin splints. OW.
SHIRE-RECKONING: We see a Black Rider on the crest of the hill.
Professor Rabkin knows a good deal more about utopian literature than I do, so I found this lecture both interesting and enjoyable. He even brought me around on the subject of nomenclature. He uses eutopia for imagined societies which are unequivocally good, dystopia for imagined societies which are unequivocally bad, and utopia as the set containing both those subsets AND the imagined societies which are ambiguous. (He talked some about author intent, but that ended up getting kind of lost in the shuffle.)
Bonus points for discussing Herland--and he reminded me that it should, of course, be taught in juxtaposition with The Handmaid's Tale.
