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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SELECTIONS FROM INVENTIONS IN THE KEY OF C By BARRINGTON SMITH-SEETACHITT A Thesis submitted to the Department of English In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2008 Copyright © 2008 Barrington Smith-Seetachitt All Rights Reserved The members of the Committee approve the thesis of Barrington Smith-Seetachitt defended on June 12, 2008. ___________________________ Diane Roberts Professor Directing Thesis ____________________________ Ned Stuckey-French Committee Member _____________________________ Elizabeth Stuckey-French Committee Member ___________________________ Ralph Berry Chair of the Department of English The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii To the staff and my fellow alumni at the February 2003 Life and Living Program. I think of you often. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to my committee members, Diane Roberts, Elizabeth Stuckey-French and Ned Stuckey-French for their excellent artistic and editorial input, personal time, and moral support. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract vi INTRODUCTION 1 1. LUCK, STATISTICS, MAGIC 2 2. THE C-WORD 17 3. SURE, IT’S KILLING US BUT… 29 4. CALL ME ISHMAEL A CANCER SURVIVOR 37 5. SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE BE A CANCER SURVIVOR 44 6. MY STRATEGY ON THE GROUND 66 7.