Et ego in arcadia

Rethinking my thesis

After reading, rereading, and rerereading As I Lay Dying for two and a half weeks, and finally dropping it from my reading list, I am now 2/3 of the way through Absalom, Absalom! and am no closer at drawing a formative conclusion that can relate it to the rest of my thesis either. I am definitely considering, especially at the behest of my primary thesis adviser, Prof. John Bishop, that I should stick with The Sound and the Fury as my subject of interest and target of critical pressure for my thesis. I have 14 pages from mostly the Quentin Chapter alone, and at that rate, at roughly 10-12 pages per section, will have enough to meet the 40 page minimum requirement for my thesis, after the introduction and conclusion is taken into account.