The Brief Arlington Reader; Canons and Contexts

by Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Z. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780312415532
• ISBN10: 0312415532
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-02-10
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction: Reading and Writing in Context	1	(30)
A Word about "Canons" and "Contexts"	1	(2)
Reading in Context	3	(7)
Writing in Context	10	(21)
1 Writing and Speaking: Worlds of Words	31	(72)
MAGNET ESSAY Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook	31	(6)
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself."
CONTENTS for Joan Didion's On Keeping a Notebook: A Writer's Purposes	37	(10)
Why I Write	37	(2)
Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism	39	(2)
Interview (1977)	41	(2)
Last Words	43	(1)
Interview (1999)	44	(3)
Robert Capa, Ernest Hemingway, Sun Valley Idaho, Nov. 1940 (photograph)	47	(1)
Eudora Welty, Listening	48	(5)
"Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it."
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue	53	(5)
"Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all-all the Englishes I grew up with."
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue	58	(11)
"For a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal, Castilian) Spanish nor standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?"
Gloria Naylor, The Love of Books	69	(7)
"I felt trapped within my home and trapped within school, and it was through the pages of books that I was released into other worlds."
Anne Fadiman, Never Do That to a Book	76	(5)
"Just as there is more than one way to love a person, so is there more than one way to love a book."
Stephen King, Write or Die	81	(2)
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out."
Elie Wiesel, Why I Write: Making No Become Yes	83	(6)
"We had all taken an oath: 'If, by some miracle, I emerge alive, I will devote my life to testifying on behalf of those whose shadow will fall on mine forever and ever."'
John Trimbur, Guidelines for Collaborating in Groups	89	(4)
"Groups are not forms of social organization to enforce conformity; they are working bodies that need to consider all the available options and points of view. For this reason, groups need to encourage the discussion of differences and to look at conflicting viewpoints."
Natalie Behring, The Entrance Exam (photograph)	93	(1)
DIALOGUE Giving Good Advice: How to Write	94	(9)
Roger Rosenblatt, Never Correct Anybody's English
James Thurber, Telling Stories
Rita Mae Brown, Kissing Off Ma Bell
Ernest Hemingway, Write Every Morning
Peter Elbow, Freewriting
Anne Lamott, Getting Started
Donald M. Murray, Creating a Design
George Orwell, Let the Meaning Choose the Word
Natalie Goldberg, Don't Marry the Fly
Jane Kenyon, Have Good Sentences in Your Ears
Katherine Anne Porter, You Do Not Create a Style. You Work...
Wendy Bishop, Revision Is a Recursive Process
2 Identities: Who We Are and How We Got That Way	103	(90)
MAGNET ESSAY N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain	103	(5)
"Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion."
CONTEXTS for N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain: Storytelling	108	(21)
Stories Take Place	108	(5)
East of My Grandmother's House	109	(1)
I Invented History	110	(1)
Oh Yes Miss Marshall	110	(1)
Disturbing the Spirits: Indian Bones Must Stay in the Ground	111	(2)
A Storyteller Begins by Listening to Others' Stories	113	(4)
Grandmother Aho and Al Momaday (photograph)	113	(1)
My Grandmother Was a Storyteller	113	(2)
Two Stories from The Way to Rainy Mountain: Ko-sahn and the Meteor Shower and The Arrowmaker	115	(2)
A Storyteller Creates a Voice	117	(4)
The Native Voice	118	(1)
The Whole Journey and Three Voices	119	(1)
Interview (1986)	120	(1)
Listeners Understand a Story in Terms of Other Stories They Know and Create	121	(9)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757	122	(1)
Kenneth Lincoln, Word Senders: Black Elk and N. Scott Momaday	123	(1)
Arnold Krupat, The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon	124	(2)
Paula Gunn Allen, Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970	126	(3)
Marion James Porter, Easter Sunday, New Orleans (photograph)	129	(1)
Barry Lopez, The American Geographies	130	(6)
"As Americans, we profess a sincere and fierce love for the American landscape, for our rolling prairies, free-flowing rivers, and 'purple mountains' majesty'; but it is hard to imagine, actually, where this particular landscape is."
Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country	136	(4)
"I felt inferior to people in town because we grew our food and made our clothes, while they bought whatever they needed. Although we were self-sufficient and resourceful and held clear title to our land, we lived in a state of psychological poverty."
Esmeralda Santiago, Jibara	140	(6)
"I wanted to be a jibara more than anything in the world, but Mami said I couldn't because I was born in the city.... If we were not jibaros, why did we live like them?"
Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker	146	(7)
"The typical Asian I imagined, and the atypical Asian I imagined myself to be, were identical in this sense: neither was as much a creature of free will as a human being ought to be."
Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze	153	(11)
"I did not cause my father's illness, nor could I have cured R. Yet for all this grownup knowledge, I am still ten years old, my own son's age, and as that boy I struggle in guilt and confusion to save my father from pain."
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joining the Church	164	(6)
"Mama wasn't the only one to change. I could never shake the idea that if only I hadn't dared fate to punish me, by crossing my legs the wrong way around, Mama wouldn't have become sick and gone to the hospital."
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Yes, Ma'am	170	(6)
"On all counts it is better for a gender crosser to pass rapidly to the other side, and making the crossing rapid ought to be the purpose of medical intervention, such as facial surgery, and social intervention, such as counseling on gender clues."
Judy Brady, I Want a Wife	176	(3)
"I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.... I, too, would like to have a wife."
Pam Spaulding, New York City 1989 (photograph)	179	(1)
DIALOGUE Interviews, Codes, and Conversations: We Are What We Speak	180	(13)
Studs Terkel, Marko Anichini, Stone Cutter
Joan Galway, Louise Nevelson: Monumental Work with Thanks to No One
Alice Walker, Eudora Welty: An Interview
Kenneth A. Brown, Steve Wozniak: Inventing the PC
Cathy Davidson, Laughing in English
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Signifying
Beth Kephart, Playing for Keeps
Robert Coles, Two Languages, One Soul
3 Places: Where We Live and What We Live For	193	(62)
MAGNET ESSAY E.B. White, Once More to the Lake	193	(6)
"It seemed to me, as I kept remembering all this, that those times and those summers had been infinitely precious and worth saving. There had been jollity and peace and goodness."
CONTEXTS for E.B. White's Once More to the Lake: Changing Descriptions	199	(8)
Advice for Beginning Writers: Three Passages from Strunk and White, The Elements of Style	199	(3)
Write with Nouns and Verbs	199	(1)
Use Definite, Specific, Concrete Language	200	(1)
Place Yourself in the Background	200	(2)
The World Described from the Barn Roof on a Saltwater Farm in Maine	202	(2)
Clear Days	202	(1)
Foreword to One Man's Meat	203	(1)
Scott Elledge, E.B. White: A Biography	203	(1)
Once More to the Lake in the 1990's	204	(3)
Thomas E. Franklin, Ground Zero Spirit (photograph)	207	(1)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective	208	(10)
"I ask you ... to approach language from the Pueblo perspective, one that embraces the whole of creation and the whole of history and time."
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	218	(6)
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village	224	(10)
"One of the things that distinguishes Americans from other people is that no other people has ever been so deeply involved in the lives of black men, and vice versa.... This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure	234	(6)
"We allow the chemical death rain to fall as though there were no alternative, whereas in fact there are many, and our ingenuity could soon discover many more if given opportunity."
William E. Rees, Life in the Lap of Luxury as Ecosystems Collapse	240	(5)
"We are accustomed to expecting a future of more and bigger, of freewheeling technological mastery over the natural world. But that road leads inevitably to a dead end."
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women	245	(7)
"I belong to a Clan of One-Breasted Women. My mother, my grandmothers, and six aunts have all had mastectomies. Seven are dead. The two who survive have just completed rounds of chemotherapy and radiation."
Wendy Johnson, Heavy Grace	252	(2)
"Both my parents died at the end of 1998, each of them on a Monday, a little less than three months apart.... I spend my Mondays planting dormant, bare-root plants for my parents."
Alon Reinfinger, Fence on the U.S. Border with Mexico (photograph)	254	(1)
4 Education: Thinking about Knowledge and Growth	255	(79)
MAGNET ESSAY Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood	255	(10)
"I was a bilingual child, but of a certain kind: 'socially disadvantaged,' the son of working-class parents, both Mexican immigrants."
CONTEXTS for Richard Rodriguez's Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood: Cause and Effect in Memoir	265	(14)
"I Am This Man": Writing a Memoir Defines a "Self"	266	(2)
Interview (1994)	266	(1)
Slouching towards Los Angeles	267	(1)
Rodriguez's Memoir Defines "Self" within a Cultural Tradition	268	(5)
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude	268	(3)
José Antonio Villarreal, Poncho	271	(2)
Rodriguez's Memoir Defines "Self" within and between Social Class Boundaries	273	(2)
Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy	273	(2)
Rodriguez's Memoir Defines "Self" within a Political Movement to Change Education	275	(4)
New York Times, Ending the Bilingual Double-Talk	276	(1)
Paul Zweig, The Child of Two Cultures	277	(2)
A Memoirist Looks Back at His Former Self	279	(3)
Interview (1999)	279	(3)
Carrie Mae Weems, The Kitchen Table (photograph)	282	(1)
Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society	283	(7)
"What do I do if one of my kids starts choking? I go running to the phone...I can't look up the hospital phone number.... Out on the street, I can't read the sign. I get to a pay phone. 'Okay, tell us where you are. We'll send an ambulance.' I look at the street sign. Right there, I can't tell you what it says."
Shirley Brice Heath, Literate Traditions	290	(10)
"In the home, on the plaza, and in the neighborhood, children are left to find their own reading and writing tasks: distinguishing one television channel from another, knowing the name brands of cars . . . choosing one or another can of soup...reading price tags at Mr. Dogan's store."
Adrienne Rich, Taking Women Students Seriously	300	(7)
"And in breaking those silences, naming our selves, uncovering the hidden, making ourselves present, we begin to define a reality which resonates to us, which affirms our being, which allows the woman teacher and the woman student alike to take ourselves, and each other, seriously: meaning, to begin taking charge of our lives."
Lynda Barry, The Sanctuary of School	307	(4)
"I was with my teacher, and in a while I was going to sit at my desk, with my crayons and pencils and books and classmates.... It was a world I absolutely relied on. Without it, I don't know where I would have gone that morning."
Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average"	311	(8)
"This is what a number of students go through, especially those in so-called remedial classes. They open their textbooks and see once again the familiar and impenetrable formulas and diagrams and terms that have stumped them for years. There is no excitement here.... There is, rather, embarrassment and frustration."
Howard Gardner, Who Owns Intelligence?	319	(14)
"Intelligence' should not be expanded to include personality, motivation, will, attention, character, creativity, and other important and significant human capacities."
Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957 (photograph)	333	(1)
5 History: Interpreting and Reinterpreting the Past	334	(72)
MAGNET ESSAY George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant	334	(6)
"It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism-the real motives for which despotic governments act."
CONTEXTS for George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant: Cause/Effect in History Writing	340	(12)
Why Did Orwell Shoot the Elephant?	341	(5)
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden	341	(1)
John Kaye, History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8	342	(1)
Alok Rai, Orwell and the Politics of Despair	343	(1)
Michael Shelden, Orwell: The Authorized Biography	344	(2)
Why Did Orwell Write "Shooting an Elephant"?: Character as Historical Cause	346	(3)
Stephen Spender (1950)	347	(1)
Christopher Sykes (1950)	347	(1)
Edmund Wilson (1951)	348	(1)
Why Are Historians Interested in Orwell's Writing?	349	(4)
Robert Pearce, Orwell Now	349	(3)
Margaret Bourke-White, Henlein's Parents, Reichenau, Sudeten Section of Czechoslovakia, 1938 (photograph)	352	(1)
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence	353	(4)
"We hod these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?	357	(1)
"I could work as much and eat as much as a man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments	358	(4)
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."
Linda Simon, The Naked Source	362	(5)
"Instead of reading Morison's rendering of Columbus's voyages ... students might read Columbus himself: his journal, his letters to the Spanish monarchs. Then they can begin to decide for themselves what sort of man this was and what sort of experience he had."
Jane Tompkins, "Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History	367	(17)
"The dilemma posed by the study of European-Indian relations in early America is that the highly charged nature of the materials demands a moral decisiveness which the succession of conflicting accounts effectively precludes. That is the dilemma I found myself in at the end of this course of reading, and which I eventually came to resolve.... "
H. Bruce Franklin, From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars	384	(16)
"The logic of this comic-book militarism, put into practice for each of America's wars since Vietnam, is inescapable: photographers must be allowed to image for the public only what the military deems suitable."
Gary Trudeau, The Draft: My Story/My Story: The Holes	400	(4)
"I ruled out applying for conscientious-objector status because I was able to imagine scenarios in which I would be capable of taking life, and I assumed that my draft board would be able to imagine those scenarios, too."
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (photograph)	404	(2)
6 Society and Politics: Human Rights, Social Class	406	(76)
MAGNET ESSAY Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman	406	(10)
Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?"
CONTEXTS for Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman: Narration and Comparison-Contrast in Cultural Confrontation	416	(16)
Which Differences Count-and How? Contrasting Stereotypes with Authentic Experience	416	(4)
Interview (1982)	000
Sara Blackburn, Review of The Woman Warrior	418	(1)
Interview (1998)	419	(1)
"What Is Chinese Tradition and What Is the Movies?"	420	(7)
Interview (1982)	420	(1)
Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea	421	(2)
Frank Chin, This Is Not an Autobiography	423	(2)
Frank Chin, Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake	425	(2)
Which Kinds of Truth Emerge from Fiction?: The Genre of The Woman Warrior	427	(6)
Imagined Life	428	(1)
Paula Rabinowitz, Eccentric Memories: A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston	428	(4)
Ernest C. Withers, I Am a Man (photograph)	432	(1)
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal	433	(7)
"I have been assured ... that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or broiled...."
Harriet Jacobs, The Slaves' New Year's Day	440	(2)
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
Frederick Douglass, Resurrection	442	(5)
"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address	447	(2)
"...This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Patricia Williams, On Being the Object of Property	449	(9)
"One of the things passed on from slavery, which continues in the oppression of people of color, is a belief structure rooted in a concept of black (or brown or red) antiwill."
Ngugi wa Thiongo'o, Decolonising the Mind	458	(8)
"What was the colonial system doing to us Kenyan children? What were the consequences of, on the one hand, this systematic suppression of our languages and the literature they carried, and on the other the elevation of English and the literature it carried?"
Wole Soyinka, Every Dictator's Nightmare	466	(5)
"It took centuries for societies to influence one another to the critical extent needed to incite the philosophic mind to address the concept of the human race in general, and not simply as members of a specific race or occupants of a geographical space."
Stephanie Coontz, Blaming the Family for Economic Decline	471	(5)
"The solution to poverty in single-parent families does not lie in getting parents back together again but in raising real wages, equalizing the pay of men and women, and making child support and maintenance provisions more fair."
Robert Reich, America's Anxious Class	476	(5)
"Americans can build a new middle class and a new ladder into it for the under-class. But without the redoubled energies of American business, the sturdy middle class that was once our country's defining quality will continue its steady erosion."
Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, 1987 (photograph)	481	(1)
7 Science and Technology: Discovery, Invention, and Controversy	482	(74)
MAGNET ESSAY Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution as Fact and Theory	482	(8)
"Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. And human beings evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered."
CONTEXTS for Stephen Jay Gould's Evolution as Fact and Theory: Definition and Argument in Science	490	(21)
Forming a Definition: Genus and Differentia	490	(5)
Knight Takes Bishop?	491	(2)
Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics	493	(1)
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind	494	(1)
Defining "Theory"	495	(7)
Nonoverlapping Magisteria	497	(2)
Phillip E. Johnson, The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism	499	(3)
Political Dimensions of Definition	502	(2)
Interview (1998)	503	(1)
Defining "Evolution"	504	(8)
James Gleick, Stephen Jay Gould: Breaking Tradition with Darwin	504	(3)
Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, Punctuated Equilibrium at the Third Stage	507	(4)
Henry Groskinsky, Replaceable You (photograph)	511	(1)
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave	512	(4)
"In the world of knowledge, the last thing to be perceived and only with great difficulty is the essential Form of Goodness.... Without having had a vision of this Form no one can act with wisdom, either in his own life or in matters of state."
Isaac Asimov, Those Crazy Ideas	516	(9)
"It takes courage to announce the results of your creativity. The greater the creativity, the greater the necessary courage.... After all, consider that the more profound the breakthrough, the more solidified the previous opinions; the more 'against reason' the new discovery seems, the more against cherished authority."
Charles Darwin, Understanding Natural Selection	525	(5)
"It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and in-sensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."
Edward O. Wilson, Microbes 3, Humans 2	530	(3)
"I am unwilling to give up entirely the quest for successful species. So let me use subjective, human-oriented criteria to pin some gold medals on members of the world's fauna and flora."
Natalie Angier, Men, Women, Sex and Darwin	533	(10)
"It needn't be argued that men and women are exactly the same, or that humans are meta-evolutionary beings, removed from nature and slaves to culture, to reject the perpetually regurgitated model of the coy female and the ardent male."
Helen Epstein, Something Happened	543	(12)
"In thousands of years of human history, not a single person is known to have been infected with HIV until 1959. . . . Now 16,000 people become infected with HIV every day and 7,000 people die of AIDS. Why have these horrible viruses started killing people in such vast numbers now and never before?"
Walker Evans, Ford River Rouge Plant, Michigan, 1947 (photograph)	555	(1)
8 Ethics: Principles and Actions	556	(87)
MAGNET ESSAY Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail	556	(14)
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law."
CONTEXTS for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail: Definition and Argument in Ethics	570	(19)
Defining "Moderation" and "Extremism"	571	(7)
Woodrow Wilson, The Making of the Nation	571	(1)
Brooks Hays, A Southern Moderate Speaks	572	(3)
Eight Clergymen's Statement	575	(2)
Connor and King	577	(1)
Two Christians' Responses to King's Views on Morality, Justice, and Law	578	(4)
T. Olin Binkley, Southern Baptist Seminaries	578	(2)
Will Herberg, A Religious "Right" to Violate the Law?	580	(2)
Debating "Justice" and Invoking the Power of Ballots and Boycotts	582	(8)
Martin Luther King Jr., Boycotts Will Be Used	583	(2)
Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Defines "Black Power"	585	(4)
Leonard Freed, Martin Luther King Jr. after Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, 1963 (photograph)	589	(1)
John Donne, Meditation	590	(2)
"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
Jeffrey Wattles, The Golden Rule-One or Many, Gold or Glitter?	592	(6)
"The objections that have been raised against the rule are useful to illustrate misinterpretations of the rule and to make clear assumptions that must be satisfied for the rule to function in moral theory."
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience	598	(13)
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Lewis H. Van Dusen Jr., Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy	611	(7)
"Those who justify violence and radical action as being in the tradition of our Revolution show a misunderstanding of the philosophy of democracy."
Anna Quindlen, Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha	618	(3)
"While women are represented today in virtually all fields, including the armed forces, only men are required to register for the military draft that would be used in the event of a national-security crisis."
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty	621	(6)
"I'm saying that you shouldn't buy that new car, take that cruise, redecorate the house or get that pricey new suit. After all, a $1,000 suit could save five children's lives."
W. French Anderson, Genetics and Human Malleability	627	(5)
"I will argue that a line can be drawn and should be drawn to use gene transfer only for the treatment of serious disease and not for any other purpose. Gene transfer should never be undertaken in an attempt to enhance or 'improve' human beings."
Joel Sternfeld, Hanford Reservation, Hanford, Washington, August 1994 (photograph)	632	(1)
DIALOGUE Prescriptions for the Good Life: Living by the Rules	633	(10)
Confucius, The Analects
The Ten Commandments
Fundamentals of Islam
Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Moral Perfection
Society of Professional Journalists, Code of Ethics
Cheryl Mendelson, Serving Meals
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Andreas Capellanus, The Rules of Courtly Love
Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, The Rules
9 Work, Play, and Creativity: Expressing Our Values	643	(87)
MAGNET ESSAY Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	643	(9)
"But when, you will ask, did my overworked mother have time to know or care about feeding the creative spirit?
"The answer is so simple that many of us have spent years discovering it. We have constantly looked high, when we should have looked high - and low."
CONTEXTS for Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: The Reaches of the Imagination	652	(12)
The Black Arts Movement	652	(2)
James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes	652	(1)
Amiri Baraka, The Myth of Negro Literature	653	(1)
The Debate about the "Black Matriarchy"	654	(4)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action	654	(2)
Looking to the Side, and Back	656	(2)
Walker's Revisions of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens for publication in Ms.	658	(2)
The Black Reading Audience	660	(5)
Interview (1983)	660	(1)
Toni Morrison, The Pain of Being Black	661	(3)
Albert Einstein Poses for a Sculpture (photograph)	664	(1)
Linda Hogan, Hearing Voices	665	(3)
"As an Indian woman, I come from a long history of people who have listened to the language of this continent, people who have known that corn grows with the songs and prayers of the people, that it has a story to tell, that the world is alive."
Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth	668	(3)
"It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set It dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life."
Ursula K. Le Gumn, "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?"	671	(7)
"A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; it takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium."
Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination	678	(7)
"Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye. The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do."
Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida	685	(6)
"Managers can sit-for hours at a time if they want-but it's their job to see that no one else ever does, even when there's nothing to do, and this is why, for servers, slow times can be as exhausting as rushes. You start dragging out each little chore because if the manager on duty catches you in an idle moment he will give you something far nastier to do."
Ntozake Shange, What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here?	691	(8)
"We knew something about the land, sensuality, rhythm and ourselves that has continued to elude our captors...What am I talkin' about? A different approach to the force of gravity, to our bodies, and what we produce."
Annie Dillard, The Stunt Pilot	699	(11)
"My eyeballs were newly spherical and full of heartbeats. I seemed to hear a crescendo; the wing rolled shuddering down the last 90 degrees and settled on the flat...When I could breathe, I asked if we could do it again, and we did."
Gjon Mili, The Ballet Dancer (photograph)	710	(1)
DIALOGUE Reviews and Analyses: Commenting on Performance	711	(19)
Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Peter Prescott, I Hate This Book
George Bernard Shaw, Hamlet
Bruce Weber, Once Again That Hulking Creature Remains Nameless
Michiko Kakutani, The Word Police
M.F.K. Fisher, The Perfect Dinner
David Owen, The Chosen One: Tiger Woods
John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Rhetorical Index	730	(10)
Index of Titles and Authors	740