Spacegoat

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
-UHS
The Sweet Cheat Gone, 165

“East Side, West Side, all around the town,
The tots sang, “Ring a rosie,” “London bridge is falling down”;
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie Rorke,
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York.”
-Tupac
The Sidewalks of New York, 1894

“biggsiest”

-[w]hale

“He who laughs best to-day, will also last laugh.”
-Uncle Albert
The Twilight of the Idols, 43

“The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.”
-Yellow Jacket [1844-1900 A.D.]

“You knew not how to live in clover.”
-Bumblebee [343-292 B.C.]

“Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.”
-Andres Serrano
Les Foules de Lourdes, 1906

“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
-Nobody

“The melancholia of everything completed!”
-Harvard Student on Break
Beyond Good and Evil, IX, 277

CHECKLIST FOR REVISING COMPARISONS*

• Is the point of the comparison—your reason for making it—clear? (See p. 137.)

• Do you cover all the significant similarities and differences? (See p. 141.)

• Is the comparison readable—that is, is it clear and yet not tediously mechanical? (See p. 141.)

• Is lumping or splitting the best way to make this comparison? (See pp. 143-145.)

• If you are offering a value judgment, is it fair? Have you overlooked weaknesses in your preferred subject, and strengths in your less preferred subject?

*Barnet, Sylvan, Pat Bellanca, and Marcia Stubbs. A Short Guide to College Writing. 3rd ed. Penguin, 2008.