oh ok I'll answer one last question lmao (first: Brasil is really really big. So naturally I can't speak for everyone)

in my experience, in general, people will have two surnames: one from the maternal family and one from the paternal family, in that order. So three names is the norm, but not necessarily the most common.

Sometimes the name is composed, like 'Lin Manuel' (this name isn't very brasilian, but it serves my point). Composed names are very common btw. 

so the convention goes 1. First name (composed or not) 2. Mother's last name (composed or not) 3. Father's last name (composed or not)

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now, if a name is composed how do I know if the 'Manuel' in 'Lin Manuel' is a surname or part of the first name, since it's not hyphenated? well you can't know, there's no rule. So we go by feel: if it sounds like a composed name, it probably is... probably... maybe

all of this is cultural, there isn't a law about which order or how many surnames you should have, and some people just use the names they like the most. General rule of thumb: someone goes by first name in conversation, but in a more formal environment by their first and last names (I'm including the whole composed name, but again, it depends)

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Useful for lots of purposes, even outside of a pandemic-

but I SURE am not enjoying teaching this way. I don’t like it much in my limited experience as a student either. I think I’m making it work pretty well all things considered, but it’s frustrating and generally less rewarding and sub-optimal in a hundred small ways that all add up to a huge headache,

@oceannocturne replied to your post: Me, An Fool:  Okay, I can catch up on my drafts...

I got up to like 1400 but over the last for months or so I was able to get it down to 70 through hard work and Procrastinating Homework!! ��

The one about failed catharsis, is that an Actual Thing? Cuz I really want to read it now :D

Technically, yes, but sadly I can’t show you because I wrote it for one of my classes and we have rules against that kind of thing (all those three examples were things I’d written, two during my masters and one during my final year of undergrad). What I can give you are the main sources I used!

So the book in question was Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, which is a title worth a paper all on its own.

Narrating Pain: The Power of Catharsis by Richard Kearney in Paragraph (jstor link)

My argument in the face of that was that Deane blurs the lines between ‘story that really happened’ and ‘ghost story’; real people become ghosts and ghosts become real. Essentially what I said was that by asserting that a ghost story ‘really happened’ and then writing a story that actually really happened as if it were a ghost story, Deane implies that stories - i’ll quote myself - “add to and become that which haunts, and that which haunts becomes that which traumatises”

"The Storyteller": Narrative Authority and Cultural Nationalism in Brendan Behan's Short Fiction by John Brannigan in Journal of Narrative Theory (jstor link)

With that one ^, I started to argue that in telling stories, truth disappears, or is hidden. Narrative authority, the authority of the storyteller, dislodges truth; every storyteller filters a story through their own lens, and over time the essential ‘truth’ of the story slips out of view because you can’t trust the authority of the storyteller. The story that actually really happened, through telling and retelling, slips around. The truth becomes inaccessible, because you can never trust storytellers enough. Storytelling also acts as the passing-on of history, which itself acts as the passing on of the traumas of the past. Telling your kids traumatic, unresolved stories (like stories of the Troubles in Ireland, which is what Reading in the Dark is) passes the trauma on to them. They have no closure and they’re too far away in time from the real events to get any. In this way telling and retelling without closure becomes pathological:

“pathological mourning produces an interpretative crisis not only for the analysand, the witness who “experiences” the loss without knowing who or “what it is he has lost,” but also for the analyst, a witness whose task it is to facilitate the analysand’s negotiation of this unconscious loss.”  - Traumas of Nation and Narrative, by Nicole M. Rizzuto (jstor link, but open access)

But I think the coolest thing is that, while within the novel silence is the only catharsis, the very fact that the novel itself is also a story about history and trauma and the telling of stories complicates the ultimate conclusion. Maybe the novel itself is an act of catharsis; maybe it ignores its own conclusions and obsessively re-tells trauma the same way that the storytellers inside the novel do.

oooo what play? :D

Thank you! 

Secondly, these are some good EU choices 😄 Apologies for disorganized rambling thoughts 

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan:

Jedi Apprentice - Starts with them meeting for the first time and goes through the early years of their relationship. These are YA so they’re a really quick read (maybe an hour each) but I am so fond of them! And Qui-Gon’s terrible taste in gifts will never get old to me.

Legacy of the Jedi - Similar style to JA. A series of vignettes following a theme through four generations, from Dooku to Anakin.

Cloak of Deception - Takes place right before TPM. 

Kenobi - Kind of a stretch, this is set after RotS during Obi-Wan’s exile on tatooine, but every other chapter he monologues at Qui-Gon’s ghost.

Obi-Wan:

Jedi Quest - Same as JA, but with Obi-Wan and Anakin. 

Rogue Planet - Okay, this is... one of the weirder ones. It seems to be hit or miss, but I really enjoy it. A lot of weird world building and force stuff.

Labyrinth of Evil - Takes place right before RotS. Very typical Luceno, a lot of plot, politics, cat-and-mouse schemes.

Revenge of the Sith novelization - Ok hear me out, don’t skip this based on the title! Sure it rehashes the plot of the movie but it’s so so so good. There are people who hate the prequels and love this book. The writing is grandiose and tragic and heartfelt, and Stover nails the characterization. If you’ve seen a tumblr gif set of Obi-Wan being sad, there’s a 90% chance the quote came from this book. 

...Full disclosure I have not read a single old republic book; they’re on my to-read list but I haven’t gotten around to it yet 😓😓😓 

Thrawn is the best! He’s the (original) answer to the question ‘what would an imperial threat look like post-RotJ?’ And Timothy Zahn wrote such a creative and unexpected solution: an alien in a racist/human-centric regime, and a non-force-sensitive nonetheless a match for jedi/dark jedi... and he uses art to win battles! It’s so cool! The Thrawn trilogy is widely regarded as sw classics and some of the best of the old EU.

Thrawn -  I actually think the new canon novel is a fantastic introduction to the character as well as being more accessible for new fans, so this is a really great place to start.

Heir to the Empire / Dark Force Rising / The Last Command - Required reading.

Outbound Flight - I just wanted to throw this rec in here based on your question, since it has a lot of both Thrawn and Obi-Wan