khwilt's profile

I am a 31 year old wife and mother prone to fits of misanthropic humanism on par with Margot Channing from All About Eve. Recently, during a subsequent reading of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces several coincidences between the book and the rest of my life arose. Strangely enough, such facts say so much without really saying anything.

I once thought I had found an ounce of fame after having been published in a briefly significant magazine catering to those types who would spend their last three dollars on literature instead of food or shelter. Now, as the folly of youth falters, I’ve immersed myself in academia—teaching College Composition, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Humanities courses to a very small group…

I am a 31 year old wife and mother prone to fits of misanthropic humanism on par with Margot Channing from All About Eve. Recently, during a subsequent reading of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces several coincidences between the book and the rest of my life arose. Strangely enough, such facts say so much without really saying anything.

I once thought I had found an ounce of fame after having been published in a briefly significant magazine catering to those types who would spend their last three dollars on literature instead of food or shelter. Now, as the folly of youth falters, I’ve immersed myself in academia—teaching College Composition, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Humanities courses to a very small group of students in an equally small Southern town. Unlike those who feel prolific in the poverty often associated with the arts, I think teaching provides a perfect cushion. Where else can I sit around for hours analyzing the use of the color green as a symbol for Limbo in post-Romantic literature and consider it working, much less get a monthly check for it?

The gambit is clear; I wish to dive into the wreck of modern culture with a wry élan… that is—food, music, literature, film & other finds. At times, updating is sporadic at best because I am either too busy to be bothered posting anything or I simply took a vacation from my online identity for awhile. So be it.