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"Musing among the vegetables?" A comparative analysis of  Mrs. Dalloway  to  Shrek , by someone who has neither watched nor read either in their entirety.  As I read  Mrs. Dalloway , something began to tug at my mind. There was an odd sort of quality about Peter Walsh that reminded me of someone else, and I wracked my brains trying to pinpoint what my subconscious was trying to get through to me. When I broke his character down to its barest essentials, I realized that his angry internal monologue and borderline incel behavior (despite his many wives), were directly reminiscent of Lord Farquaad from the iconic 2001 film,  Shrek . His snide judgement of those around him, as well as insistent claim upon a woman that he is repeatedly quite unpleasant to, solidified the comparison in my mind. (This is not to say that I dislike Peter, he’s quite a fun character - but for the sake of the comparison we’ll be focusing on his more negative traits and how those cau...

     One of the first days that we discussed  The Mezzanine  in class, we came upon the passage where Howie describes eight major "advances" he considers fundamentally changed his life. His eighth point is about brain cell death, and he lays out his theories on how and why it occurs. He introduces the topic by saying,      "One weekend I confessed to my mother on the phone that I had been worrying that over the past six months especially, my brain wattage had dimmed perceptibly. […] “It's true," she said, "that your individual braincells are dying, but the ones that stay grow more and more connections, and those connections keep branching out over the years[...]" This observation was exceedingly helpful. In a week or two following her news that connections continued to proliferate in the midst of neural carnage, I formed several related theories:..."     This, and the theories that follow, especially caught my interest because they were ...