Floating Opera 4/16

Floating Opera

Jordan Stackhouse

1. What do you make of his panic when he first finds out about his condition? Is it justified?

2. The frat life… pretty realistic if you ask me

3. His visit with Marvin the Doctor being pretty sketch

4. Betty June the prostitute

5. Jane being pregnant with Todd’s baby

6. Todd’s talk with his father and his father committing suicide

7. Calliope Music Chapter and how it is written differently (columns)

8. His dad’s unsuccess in the stock market

9. Todd’s relationship with his daughter

10. The Floating Opera

Quotes I thought were interesting:

“A good habit to acquire, if you are interested in disciplining your strength is the habit of habit-breaking”

Pg 148 Description of Harrison and him hiring “new niggers”

“It was a lovely day for sucide” 152                                                                                               

“I was content to see the Macks outgrow their unbecoming jealousy…”

“I was waiting for him to finish tuning his piano”

“There’s nothing wrong with fooling yourself…”165

Page 167 - 169

“Masks in referring to what I’d always considered to be the stages of my intellectual development.”

Bottom of 227 into 228 (the closing of the “inquiry”

“There’s no final reason for living (or for suicide)”