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Apr 28, 2024
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LAS 194 - The Grand and the Simple 3 hours
The great French writer Marcel Proust observed that the self of today is often unable to recognize the self of yesterday and unable to accurately envision the self of tomorrow. Does our life include a multiple collection of selves (10-year-old David in a baseball uniform, 17-year-old David in a jail cell, 25-year-old David in a cyclone in Japan, and an older David teaching a university course on the different Davids)? Or do we have one true self that always remains invisible to us, just around the corner, just out of reach? Who the h-e-double hockey sticks am I, was I always this person, will I always be this person? This class will discuss how different people, places, events, and decisions (made and unmade) influence the self. We will explore through writings, films, and discussion how every moment could be the one that defines us to ourselves or others and how in the next moment that can all change.
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