4th Blog Entry

Icon 1: The lorax
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a. "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I'm asking you sir, at the top of my lungs - that thing! That horrible thing that I see! What's that thing you've made out of my truffula tree?"-Lorax

b. " They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"-Lorax

c. Emma Marris described the Lorax character as a "parody of a misanthropic ecologist". She called the book "gloomy" and doubted it was good for young children. Nevertheless, she praised the book overall, and especially Seuss for understanding "the limits of gloom and doom" environmentalism.- Wikipedia

3. I could possibly add the quotes that I found as well as add a critic's point of view on the book and how I do and don't relate. maybe directly relate the story of the Lorax to my moral and ethical portion of my artist statement.

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a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax
b. http://www.catinthehat.org/history.htm
c. http://greenopolis.com/goblog/green-groove/lorax-dr-seuss-introduces-children-environmental-issues

Icon 2: David Sedaris

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94A245q7O4Q

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a. "I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met."
b. "Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face."
c. interview:
What was the piece you were doing for Esquire?
It was the first thing I did for them. I didn't think it was that successful, because I felt really responsible for the people who worked there [in the morgue]. They were all really excited about the article coming out, so I had to be a reporter. But also I kept thinking what they would think when it came out, so I couldn't repeat a lot of the things that they had said, because it would make them sound insensitive.

3. How dr. seuss really got me into storytelling and how it can be one of the biggest joys to listen to and read about. David Sedaris is one of my favorite storytellers and authors.

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a. http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/sedaris.html
b. http://www.barclayagency.com/sedaris.html
c. http://literati.net/Sedaris/