An Experiment in Teaching the Essay: Lapse

Session 4 [Continuation from past three posts]

Well, I missed a day, and I’m not about to write an entry now. Such is life. When Chicago gets a beautiful, cloudless 82 degree Sunday in early April, my ethical obligations to take advantage of that day overrode my ethical obligation to stay inside and write. I’m sure you understand.

I did, however, bring my Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Marx, and spent a little time reading these things while taking advantage of the noonday sun, hoping that it will let me see some more truth. In reality, I opened up the Kierkegaard, read a few paragraphs, and my mind started racing. The very fact that I had started to construct a problem made me see things and think about things that I hadn’t thought before. Before, I was just reading it for the sake of “understanding,” but in a general, purposeless way. This time, I was reading with a purpose; I was hunting for something, and I was finding it.

I hope to have a full entry tonight and get this problem situated before I hit the sack so I can start on the problem tomorrow. Tomorrow, I would like to take a few of the Kierkegaard sections, analyze them, and digest them for the purpose of writing the paper.

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