nolite te basterdes corborun... oh you know what I mean!

I revisited and revised a blog post from over a year ago to submit to Vermont College of Fine Arts as a critical essay on an application and thought that I would post it here. It is (hopefully) quite a bit tighter than my original posting. You can find the original post here.

Revised Version

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was not required reading i…