Response to Questions: Ongoingness

Response to QuestionsNameInstitutional AffiliationDate Sentences I developed the amnesia that some people call pregnancy brain. Nursing an infant creates so much lost, empty time. It was a different nothing from the unrecorded nothing of the years before; this new nothing was absent of subjective experience. Toward the end of my thirties, and into my forties, my entries became further abbreviated.I no longer believe in anything other than the middle, but my students still believe in beginnings. Recently I became not quantifiably old but qualitatively old. Reflection Questions 1 How is Manguso’s book, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary a book inside a book? 2 Manguso appears to have his own style of writing her memories that keep the reader entertained. Describe this writing style. 3 What does the writer means when she says, “During my pregnancy, I wouldn’t remember anything. Information seemed to enter my brain and dissolve”. Question 3- Question Response Manguso’s book, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary is a narration about her diary that she started keeping twenty five years ago. Manguso...