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I think that in the view of expanding our diverse reading, we should not repeat an author. I see "ebock"s point that picking a text automatically excludes 'texts' by the non-literate. However, this is an English course, so I assumed that, in taking the course, I was only going to learn about texts in English. So I'm not sure I see a problem with this.

I like the book Zami, but I can't think of a particular reason to read this book next. I'd like to hear more about Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. 

Also, I was thinking about Laura's question: what do we do. I really think the first question is should we do something? But perhaps that was implied in the question what do we do: like the author in the story who started feeding neglected children and then gradually stopped.She, it seems, answered this question in the end by not 'doing' anything. So what she did was nothing. Or perhaps you could see it as listening to the mother's wishes.

Related to this: When reading this story I was really thinking about the question: in what ways is the question about what to do in this social location related to the question of what do we do about abortion. In what ways is it different. Some the arguments presented in the reading were similar to the ones I've heard for abortion. Did anyone else think they were similar or different? Does our decision of what to do in this situation affect what we do about abortion? Is what they're doing any different? In what ways?