Monday involved rhetorical analysis
Oct. 27th, 2025 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI agreed to help A. with her English assignment involving a rhetorical analysis of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, my favorite speech of all time (probably, altho I also really like the one in Julius Caesar). A. wanted to also look over the First Inaugural, which we only got halfway through before I said, look, the assignment is on the Second, the First is annoying and honestly not a great speech or a great look and it is getting late.
I thought I knew the Second well, but after my third attempt at summarizing it for A., I had realized things about that speech at a conscious level that I had only ever felt before. I now fully understand why that speech gives me the Happy Chills every time I read it. So short. So vicious. Love it. So much FAFO energy. Totally owning everyone’s complicity in the whole thing. And I do mean owning in every possible variant meaning.
I put together the Lego Sherlock Holmes. Fun set!
I thought I knew the Second well, but after my third attempt at summarizing it for A., I had realized things about that speech at a conscious level that I had only ever felt before. I now fully understand why that speech gives me the Happy Chills every time I read it. So short. So vicious. Love it. So much FAFO energy. Totally owning everyone’s complicity in the whole thing. And I do mean owning in every possible variant meaning.
I put together the Lego Sherlock Holmes. Fun set!