Autumn, at twenty-three
I’m teetering at the edge of some important discovery about life, but I’m not quite there yet. Surrounded by fall-scapes within beautiful Oakville—crimson roses, brick walls, and opal-leafed trails—I greet autumn of twenty-three with mixed feelings. I feel calm, compared to the hyper anxiety of twenty-two akin to a yellow torrent of falling leaves. At…
Exploring Monocultures
A monoculture, by definition, is a homogenous environment with little to no diversity, in which “every organism follows the same path of development.” According to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Revenge of the Tipping Point, a monoculture can refer to a group of cheetahs in the Oregon safari in the 1970s, or a small American…
Book Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise was a very strange novel. It was a wild ruckus of a ride, but I do wish to focus on one theme: fear of doom. This fear pervades the majority of the novel. It’s the creeping panic that rises at the thought of an ending, bleak with no hope. It’s the question surfacing…