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I'm writing a paper, right now, for an interdisciplinary class that I'm taking- Jewish Interpretations of the Human Condition. We get this rather broad and vague writing assignment, and are asked to relate to some quantity of the different readings that we encountered on the topic of the last few weeks. This is the third of these papers that I'm writing (3 during the semester, and another larger one that we'll get for the final).
Each time I write, I find, when I'm well into the paper, that there are a host of terms that are similar and that I don't know how to disentangle and differentiate. If I could do that, I could start from scratch and write a different, much more sophisticated paper. But it has taken me 4ish pages to get to the point where I can even Start to think about how they are different, and I don't know how I would really define each one in a way to clarify which means what. And frankly, I don't have the time to start from scratch after writing what I think is a perfectly good paper. I'm not disappointed with the work that I'm turning out. It's just that I wish I could see on to how I go that next step. It's exciting to see what it might be, or where it might go- but frustrating to see that just as I'm finishing a piece of work.
This time, the ideas that are feeling entangled have to do with holiness, significance, home, homeland, and connection, all in the context of dealing with place/location/space from a Jewish perspective. (And now back to finishing that selfsame paper.)
Each time I write, I find, when I'm well into the paper, that there are a host of terms that are similar and that I don't know how to disentangle and differentiate. If I could do that, I could start from scratch and write a different, much more sophisticated paper. But it has taken me 4ish pages to get to the point where I can even Start to think about how they are different, and I don't know how I would really define each one in a way to clarify which means what. And frankly, I don't have the time to start from scratch after writing what I think is a perfectly good paper. I'm not disappointed with the work that I'm turning out. It's just that I wish I could see on to how I go that next step. It's exciting to see what it might be, or where it might go- but frustrating to see that just as I'm finishing a piece of work.
This time, the ideas that are feeling entangled have to do with holiness, significance, home, homeland, and connection, all in the context of dealing with place/location/space from a Jewish perspective. (And now back to finishing that selfsame paper.)