Assigned Friday to A-day

For Tuesday, respond to elements of magical realism and their apparent purpose in the reading selection. Write exactly one coherent, sensible, and specific page. Phrases such as *really makes you feel like you are there* or *really really brings out the emotion of the characters* will result in immediate zeros. That will earn you a big BS: Be Specific. Write about the selection you read and YOUR thoughts, not on some nameless imagined *reader* upon which any wild notion could depend. I suggest that you focus your one page focus on a single important idea (important to humanity as well as to the book): time and memory; history and difficulties knowing it; isolation and alienation; dangers of half-understandings; the nexus of scientific ways of knowing and primitive intutions.