Posts in the category “writing”

Brains and Behavior

Brains and Behavior

Some thoughts on Hilary Putnam’s views regarding logical behaviorism

The Paradox of Popularity

The Paradox of Popularity

I took a class in the Fall of ’94 called Desire and Power in Western Literature. I hated the class and I’m pretty sure the professor, Dr. Snodgrass, didn’t like me very much. I wrote this rambling, terrible excuse for a term paper, in November of that year. It is titled “The Paradox of Popularity: or What does the 1994 MLB strike have to do with being a Tom Petty fan?”

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.

Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

An essay on gender roles I wrote in college in 1994

Ending Lists

On list groupings and the correct use of commas

Never Stop Questioning

“The important thing is to never stop questioning.” That quote is often attributed to Einstein. I cannot confirm that he ever actually said this. But I doubt I would hear many arguments if I suggested he was one of the greatest thinkers in history. Is “questioning” really all that important? I guess it depends on

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

An essay on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by David Gagne

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

An essay on A Farewell to Arms by David Gagne September 18, 1995

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

An essay on A Farewell to Arms by David Gagne

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

An essay on The Sun Also Rises by David Gagne

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.