lenny bruce is still not afraid

Everyone from Eric Bogosian to Kenneth Tynan to Mort Sahl can agree that Lenny Bruce was irreverent, controversial, ground-breaking. But what about you? What have you found in L. Bruce's autobiography that merits attention? In the spirit of that question, I want you to do two things for Tuesday's class. First, I want you to find a section of Bruce's autobiography--an event, a description, an explanation--that strikes you as illuminating, interesting, exasperating, confusing, troubling. In short, something that makes you think. Second, I want you to write a half-page to a full-page account of what that section brings into focus--or brings into collision--for you. Bring three copies of your writing to class on Tuesday. If you need a nudge to get you started, consider L. Bruce's observations on pleasure and the body. Or language and innocence. Or loneliness. Or violence and war. Or entertainment. (Or, of course, forget all of these, and dig into the book on your own.)

For Sunday's blog post, please select from the following topics:

1. Give us a Lenny Bruce-inspired, stream-of-consciousness rant about something that Cornell undergraduates should care about, dammit.

2. "I'm not exactly sure, but I think that Thank You Mask Man is sort of about. . . ."



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