Hey guys,

Sorry I haven't been too active, but I've been so busy ever since school started, it's hard to really keep up with the blogs. But anyway, I've been talking to a few people on AOL, and Chris, as some of you may know, has a 56k modem (By heavens! You don't mean... no it can't be) and his computer cannot load up this website. He just wanted me to let everyone know that he hasn't forgotten all of you.

Now keep in mind, if someone has already spoken with him about this and told all you guys on the Blog, my igorance is a mere lack of time.

Sam, you should look for the album Axis: Bold as Love by Hendrix, my personal favorite. The album art is not only psychedelic and intriguing, but the music itself just makes an incredible stance in the dialogical history of music, standing out like a branch on the tree of time, incredibly unique and all its own.

And regarding the Achebe article, I think he's wrong. Conrad used Marlowe as the second narrator for a purpose: so Conrad could show Marlowe's own hypocrisy. I could elaborate on this much more, but I'm a little too lazy and short on time. But anyway, you'll find in the instances that Marlowe stops telling the story throughout the book, you can find many hints and much symbolism of his own hypocrisy, thus reflecting the motif of whites claiming to practice idealistic imperialism, when in fact it's mere rascism and want of ivory and wealth. Furthermore, I believe the rascist aspect of Marlowe (not Conrad) is a minor part of the book. The main message I retrieved was the human condition that exists in every human being, and how different environments create different peoples (this goes back to another book I have to read for AP World, called Gun, Germs, and Steel, where Jared Diamond takes a marvelous stand on geo-determinism). I believe Conrad was trying to show the savage in us all, and how it can be released amongst us and how people can practice restraint.

Other than that, I've been chillin here in Vermont. I hope you all got the postcards I sent you, and I miss you all very much. Dylan, at some point I'm going to visit Sudbury Massachusettes to meet some family friends. They are also extreme liberals, and I think your family would love to meet them and perhaps we could get together.

Lata all