Well, I guess technically this is an "Honors" course, as it's HON 201, but most of us enrolled are English students, and an English professor's teaching it, and it's called "Multi Disciplinary Approaches to Reading, Writing and Research". We're reading all sorts of crazy books, the professor's favorites.

I'm currently reading one called "Cosmicomics" by Italo Calvino. This chapter I'm on is cracking me up. Essentially, this character, Qfqfq (all the characters have consonant-only names so far) and his "family" have been around since before the Milky Way galaxy began, and he's talking about making the first sign in the universe:

"So the situation was this: the sign served to mark a place but at the same time it meant that in that place there was a sign (something far more important because there were plenty of places but there was only one sign) and also at the same time that sign was mine, the sign of me, because it was the only sign I had ever made and I was the only one who had ever made signs. It was like a name, the name of that point, and also my name that I had signed on that spot; in short, it was the only name available for everything that required a name."

The chapter's just amusing me--the whole thing's written like that. Boggles my mind. So, now I'll go back to reading Just thought I'd share.