Word of the Day: grotesque I realized today that when America takes over the world, everyone will be the same. I won't miss Thursday's Lit Trad class for any amount of money. Dr. Baldwin brought up the question of whether Dostoyevsky wants us to think Sonya is pure on some level or not. However, most of the class took the question as whether Sonya was pure at all and not as what Dostoyevsky wants his readers to think. Oh man, Chris was the only one who said no, she isn't, and people started attacking him left and right. Granted, the argument wasn't about what Dr. Baldwin was asking about, but it was grand. I'm just sad it was at the end of class. People said that Sonya was noble for giving herself for her family, but Chris said it was immoral and nothing was good about it because a) it's immoral and b) it wasn't helping at all, it was in vain. Dr. Baldwin had to intervene and restate the question and ask all of us, for Thursday, to find textual evidence to support our claim. But you know what? Chirs was looking at the simple question, not at what Dostoyevsky wants us to think about Sonya. If Sonya isn't pure on some level, it affects the entire rest of the book and the ending would be completely changed. It all rests on Sonya's purity that Dostoyevsky wants us to focus on. But...that probably won't get said by me or anyone else and Chris will win his little battle and look like a fool when we get to the end of the book. And that's fine for me. I'm left-handed. _____________________ They fixed the bells!