ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture 1: The Wall
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As birds or butterflies, but looked more human. As long as the wings were furled, they felt no awe. In all of eden: this was the first omen. The second was the dream which woke the woman. She dreamed she saw the lion sharpen his claw. As for the fruit, it had no taste at all. They had been warned of what was bound to happen. They had been told of something called the world. They had been told and told about the wall. They saw it now; the gate was standing open. Every text has a context: are already existing cultural and literary settings or circumstances that inform, activate, and irrigate a text. The text is in active discussion with the context and they go back and forth so more accurately every literary text has many contexts; and every literary text wrestles with those contexts.
