For my second choice essay, I read a rather peculiar article by Don Marquis titled 'The Almost Perfect State'. I picked this essay because out of the corner of my eye, I saw a reference to the Bolshevik group in Russia, which would inference Communism to be the main drive of the essay. This was not the case. The article, weird enough, was about how people should work as hard as they possibly can so they can plan out the last 10 years of their lives to be as debaucherous as possible. Marquis described this phase as the almost perfect life.
He believed that during the non-almost perfect phase of your life, you should live as prudent and sober as possible. He also then goes on to say that after your years of work, "[you] shall be the ribald, useless drunken outcast person [you] have always wished to be." Basically in Marquis perfect life, you get to #YOLO out for as long as you want when you're really old.
After Marquis has finished his details about this perfect end to life, he tells a very fatalistic tail. It is at this part where I believe Marquis to be a bit insane. From this point on, he rabbles on about things like Martians teaching humans things and kissing hot dog sandwiches. His writing style also gets more erratic, including many ellipses and capital locked words. He downgrades the style of the way humans do things on Earth, and then ends up saying that we all are nothing more than a low spot on Earth. What a cheerful way to lure in your readers.
No comments:
Post a Comment