The Journal of the Core Curriculum V OLUME XIV E DITOR- IN-CHIEF Joseph Jerome A RT D IRECTOR Sonia Rowe L AYOUT D IRECTOR Danielle Nadeau P OETRY AND T RANSLATIONS E DITORS Matthew Kelsey Dygo Tyso E DITORIAL S TAFF Amanda Braun Imry Halevi Jeena Kim Drew Love Katie Martin Alex Raike Stephanie Shimada Kentaro Yoshida Michael Zisser D IRECTOR OF THE C ORE C URRICULUM James Johnson F ACULTY A DVISOR Sassan Tabatabai P UBLISHED by BOSTON U NIVERSITY B OSTON,MASSACHUSETTS MAY, 2005 Illustration Index Cover Joseph Jerome and Mayse Yaraghi -- Sketch after Leonardo Jessica Lowe vii Piano and Palm Leaf Danielle Nadeau 9 Lee Cobb as King Lear (courtesy Bettmann) 34 Eyes (courtesy Prentice-Hall) 57 La Mariée (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 60 Christ as the man of Sorrows (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 63 Landscape with St. Jerome (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 65 Allegorical Triumph of Federico da Mantefeltro (courtesy Olga’s 65 Gallery) 67 The Delivery of the Keys (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 67 St. John Altarpiece (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 67 Sleeping Venus (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 69 The School of Athens (courtesy Olga’s Gallery) 73 Statue from British Museum Elizabeth Hogg 76 Spanish Clocktower Elizabeth Hogg 93 Krishna and Arjuna (courtesy ISKON) 100 Hotel Nationale Daniel Hudon 101 Che in the Plaza Daniel Hudon 102 Cars in Havana Daniel Hudon 105 Outside a Cuban Bar Daniel Hudon 106 Plane Guard Daniel Hudon 111 Jamaican Sunset Sonia Rowe 122 Seated Girl Dygo Tosa 125 Jimi Hendrix Alex Brown 127 Australian Sunset Sonia Rowe 130 Willow Tree Ali Cumber 134 Don Quixote Daniel Hudon 138 French Farm Sonia Rowe 142 Beach Couple Elizabeth Hogg C OPYRIGHT © MMIV BY THE T RUSTEES OF B OSTON U NIVERSITY. 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Copy set in Garamond. i Table of Contents Veils of Oppression 1 COCO BALINSKI The Nobility in Candide 5 ANDREW DAVID Clench Your Fists, Grit Your Teeth . 10 TRANSLATED BY KASIA ZABAWA AND MATTHEW KELSEY Postscript to Gulliver’s Travels 12 ALYSSA BIGLEY Virgil’s Aeneid and the Terror of Terrorism 15 DAVID ROOCHNIK Childhood Memory 22 TRANSLATED BY GRECIA ALVAREZ Heaven’s Answer 24 NICHOLAS SHAMAN Odysseus 31 JON WOODING Subjectivity and Happiness 32 DREW LOVE Letter to the Berlinische Monatsschrift 38 MATTHEW KELSEY Analects 1 40 Reflections Upon Pierre Bayle 42 JOSEPH JEROME Prof. Pantagruel and the Circumference of WR150 51 KENTARO YOSHIDA Varieties of Destruction 54 ZACHARY BOS Second Thoughts 55 ZACHARY BOS Against Intelligent Design 56 MARTHA MUNOZ~ Chagall’s “La Mariée” 61 DANIEL JOSEPH Renaissance Art 62 MICHAEL ZISSER ii Aeneas as Role Model 72 JENNA KILEY A Conversion of Views 75 FLORA SMITH Sincerity and Seduction in Don Giovanni 80 JAMES JOHNSON Dome Around the Sky 87 BRIAN JORGENSEN Krishna and the Issue of Alternative Faiths 90 ALEX RAIKE Analects 2 96 Breakfast in the Freezer 98 MELISSA DEJESUS Cuban Episodes 99 DANIEL HUDON Gulliver in the Rousseauvian Isles 108 ERIKA CONNOLLY Modern Art 119 MATTHEW KELSEY Camus: Carnets 120 GEORGE KALOGERIS To learn to draw is a language 123 DYGO TOSA Goodbye American Experiment in Democracy 124 STEPHEN KALBERG Sestina 126 ELIZABETH KEENAN Rainy Saturday 128 AVERY ANA LUBELL To Okeechobee Canal 129 GRECIA ALVAREZ Don Quixote’s Quest for a Squire 130 SARAH CHANDONNET 80 132 TRANSLATED BY JAMES RIGGAN self 135 BETHANY PICKARD Adam to Eve in Old Age 141 SASSAN TABATABAI iii Editor’s Note he primary purpose of the Core Curriculum is to open up students to new ideas and horizons. This, the four- teenth edition of the Journal of the Core Curriculum, serves as a guidebook to the many worlds discovered Tthrough the Humanities and the Sciences. Gathered from works of students, faculty and friends of the Core, the reader will nav- igate across a vast sea of intellectual inquiry and literary creativi- ty. From poetry to analytical essays, thoughtful reflections to imaginative tales, the worlds contained within these pages are ripe to be explored and enjoyed. For my part, I would like to thank Professor Sassan Tabatabai for his continued support and guidance and Dean James Johnson for being the heart and soul of the Core. I must mention Zachary Bos who led us through the proverbial inferno and out into paradiso. Finally, I am without words to describe the diligence and patience of the staff—they produced this wonder- ful volume in spite of my fits of insanity. Words of thanks are hardly enough. From beginning to end, this collection represents the best that the journey through the Core has to offer. Bon voyage! Joseph W. Jerome EDITOR-IN-CHIEF iv Contributors GRECIA ALVAREZ is a sophomore in CAS from Madison, Wisconsin. studying English and Spanish literatures, with a DANIEL H UDON took advantage of his particular interest in translation. She is originally Canadian citizenship to visit Cuba “before Castro from Miami and is passionate about pro-demo- goes.” He will deny bringing back any cigars, and cratic movements in Cuba. She hopes to someday certainly not to win friends and influence people. contribute to the emancipation of her people He teaches Natural Science in the Core. through her writing. JOSEPH JEROME is studying the development COCO BALINSKI is a sophomore planning to of Western Culture, with a particular emphasis on major in Secondary English. She enjoys exploring the influence of the Pax Romana on early Boston, reading, running, and riding fixed-gear European thought, through the University bikes. Professors Program at BU. However, in lieu of ALYSSA BIGLEY is a sophomore in CAS, actually doing any research for this topic, he studying French Language and Literature. She instead spends most of his time attached to the hails from Voorheesville, New York. Core Office or the Core House as a self-described Core nut. ZACHARY BOS may very well be on the payroll of the Danish Butter Cookie Corporation ...the JAMES JOHNSON is at work on Masks and the investigation continues. His current projects Making of Modern Consciousness, a book on the include translations of Machado, a retelling of practice and rhetoric of masking in modern and evolution in verse, and research into a possible early-modern Europe. His essay on Mozart is programme of phylopoetics. drawn from that material. S ARAH C HANDONNET is a sophomore BRIAN JORGENSEN is Assistant Professor of English major in Core, who loves crayons, hates Humanities and English in CAS, as well as an being late, and lives her life according to fortune instructor in the Core. His areas of scholarly inter- cookies. est include ancient philosophy and Renaissance and modern poetry. ERIKA CONNOLLY is a sophomore in CAS, majoring in Music. A native of New Jersey, she DANIEL JOSEPH is a sophomore, hailing from plays piano and cello, and plans to study music Merrimack, New Hampshire. He is studying theory in graduate school. Erika owes her inspi- towards acquiring a major in English in CAS. ration in part to the late Canadian pianist Glenn STEPHEN KALBERG studied History and Gould. Sociology in Seattle, New York, and Germany, ANDREW DAVID graduated from Core in where his writing career began and ended (most- 2003, but he never really left. With his post-Core ly). He then lived down and out in Boston until involvement in the Core Current Affairs the Core Curriculum discovered and rescued him Association and as RA of the Core House, he (despite his long red beard). He has now taught spends more time in the office now than ever. He for 15 years in the Core and the Sociology thanks Dean Johnson, the Core faculty (especially Department, where he teaches courses on socio- Professor Richardson, his original discussion logical theory and comparative political cultures. leader, who still speaks of ziggurats), the CCAA, GEORGE KALOGERIS is a poet and transla- Zak, Liberty, the Core office staff, Joe for putting tor. and elsewhere. He is an instructor in the first- all this together, and his Core House residents. year Core. His book of poems based on the note- MELISSA DEJESUS is an English major in books of Albert Camus will appear in the fall. CAS. She is originally from the Midwest, hailing E LIZABETH K EENAN (CAS 07) is an v English major with a love for 18th century and ry workshop. Romantic literature. She can usually be found play- DAVID ROOCHNIK teaches regularly both in ing piccolo for the BU marching and pep bands or the Department of Philosophy and in the reading her favorite books. Elizabeth is from Humanities portion of the Core. Before joining Hamilton, NJ. Boston University in 1995, he was an Associate MATTHEW KELSEY thanks his parents for Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at making his “thousand-mile journey” easier to the Iowa State University and a Visiting Associate bear, and also thanks Dyana for her unending Professor at Williams College. In 1999, he was a patience during the journal-making process. recipient of Boston University’s Metcalf Award J ENNA K ILEY, an International Relations for Excellence in Teaching. major, joined the CAS Class of 2008 from NICHOLAS SHAMAN, a Psychology major Freehold, New Jersey. from Briarwood, New York, is a sophomore in DREW LOVE is a junior Philosophy major with CAS. an English minor from Aurora, OH. In his free FLORA SMITH is from McAdoo, Pennsylvania. time, he enjoys reading, creative writing, working She is studying International Relations and is pur- with the BU Editorial Society, volunteering with suing minors in both French and Italian.