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So I Talk About a TV Show instead of a Movie

The TV show The Society is really good. I had originally decided to check out this TV show after watching the movie Blockers on Netflix, and I thought that the actresses that portrayed the daughters in the movie were really good. I checked out the actresses Kathryn Newton and Gideon Adlon and found that they star in the same show and that was how I came to discover the show, The Society. The Society is about a group of senior high schoolers who were stuck in a place that looked like their high-society town after their field trip got canceled. Only there were no people left nor was there a way to go outside or communicate with people from outside. At first, everyone thought it was a free pass from their parents so they partied and got on with their friends, only to learn that no one was going to get them. A group of campers then volunteered to search through the thick woods that surrounded their town and when they came back with a dead friend, only then did they all know that they were ...

The World of Marginalia and What Could Have Been

As I read through Sam Anderson's "What I Really Want is Someone Rolling Around in the Text" , I remembered myself in high school. I had always been an intense note-writer and I can fill out at least two to three 100-leaves notebook in an academic year for each subject. I don't really remember where I first saw the marginalia from but I did had a bit with it when I was in high school through university. Sam wrote about the art of marginalia and the importance of it to him and what it could be to people. The habit of marginalia boomed through 1700-1820, and here I am imagining those books and notes with yellowed pages and wonderful scripts. I was especially surprised to see that he could apply this to fiction novels. I agree that marking up a book is a way to personalize it and make it your own and it's a whole new sensation to be actively talking with the book as you go. It will also be interesting to see the exchanges of marginalia and footnotes of renowned author...