Monday Seminar: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor

Zoom Room: Every Other Monday Evening: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83082301498?pwd=ls65j4u9mbDPqEbL2WeNs07FSHjlzs.1 , United States

"BESIDES THE NEUTRAL EXPRESSION that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck. Her eyes never swerved to left or right but turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it. She seldom used the other expression because it was not often necessary for her to retract a statement, but when she did, her face came to a complete stop, there was an almost imperceptible movement of her black eyes, during which they seemed to be receding, and then the observer would see that Mrs. Freeman, though she might stand there as real as several grain sacks thrown on top of each other, was no longer there in spirit."

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Thursday Seminar: “The Birds,” by Aristophanes

Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1

"What misfortune is ours! we strain every nerve to get to the birds,(1) do everything we can to that end, and we cannot find our way! Yes, spectators, our madness is quite different from that of Sacas. He is not a citizen, and would fain be one at any cost; we, on the contrary, born of an honourable tribe and family and living in the midst of our fellow-citizens, we have fled from our country as hard as ever we could go. 'Tis not that we hate it; we recognize it to be great and rich, likewise that everyone has the right to ruin himself; but the crickets only chirrup among the fig-trees for a month or two, whereas the Athenians spend their whole lives in chanting forth judgments from their law-courts."

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Monday Seminar: “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville

Zoom Room: Every Other Monday Evening: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83082301498?pwd=ls65j4u9mbDPqEbL2WeNs07FSHjlzs.1 , United States

"In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo, in the harbor of St. Maria—a small, desert, uninhabited island toward the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water.

On the second day, not long after dawn, while lying in his berth, his mate came below, informing him that a strange sail was coming into the bay. Ships were then not so plenty in those waters as now. He rose, dressed, and went on deck."

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Thursday Seminar: “The Clouds,” by Aristophanes

Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1

Join us to read "The Clouds" by Aristophanes, even if you missed "The Birds" last week! William James Hickie translation available on Gutenberg.   Login on Thursday, July 24 at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1  

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Thursday Seminar: “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois (Part I)

Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1

“Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
“Of the Dawn of Freedom”
“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
“Of the Meaning of Progress”
“Of the Wings of Atalanta”

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Monday Seminar: “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois (Part II)

Zoom Room: Every Other Monday Evening: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83082301498?pwd=ls65j4u9mbDPqEbL2WeNs07FSHjlzs.1 , United States

"Of the Training of Black Men"
"Of the Black Belt"
"Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece"
"Of the Sons of Master and Man"
"Of the Faith of the Fathers"

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Monday Seminar: Acts of the Apostles

Zoom Room: Every Other Monday Evening: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83082301498?pwd=ls65j4u9mbDPqEbL2WeNs07FSHjlzs.1 , United States

"Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, “Leaders of the people and elders. If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is ‘the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.’ There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”"

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