Overall, I found the reading pretty difficult to understand but I think I understood the main point the author was trying to make. I struggled a lot with the vocabulary and since his writing was very structured and boring, I simply wasn’t as interested as I should’ve been. His thoughts were kind of abstract as well so that’s also why I had difficulty reading it. Back to our discussion of Cliche, yes, I could relate the reading back to our discussion. I think the example of the Grand Canyon had a Cliche behind it. When people visit the Grand Canyon, they go to the Bright Angel Lodge, or take photos, and do things normal tourists would do, which is cliche, but if you wanted to break out of that “box”, and you really wanted to experience something for what it is, you can either be dragged into it, or explore it and call it your own, like the example of the tourists in the village because they had a genuine experience.
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prof Groom Said:
on September 11, 2006 at 4:32 pm
What constitutes a genuine experience for Percy? How do the tourists know they had a genuine experience? How might this relate to Percy’s idea of the surrendering of soverign experience?