As long as I'm on this giving-myself-too-much-credit-for-weird-connections-that-only-I- appreciate-in-subpar-final-papers kick, I thought I'd mention what might be the best one yet. Allow me to set the scene: The paper is on how Diaz expands upon the work of Derek Walcott (specifically, the poem of Walcott's that Diaz used as an epigraph) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I talk about how both writers use a lot of references to films and books and music and Spanish language, etc. in order to emphasize a search for idenity in the characters (or something like that... as I said, the paper isn't very good). But! I was listening to Vampire Weekend while writing and had the brilliant idea to title the paper "Walcott All the Way to New Jersey." Oscar Wao is set in New Jersey! Get it?! Get it?! I think I'm gonna add a footnote about it and my professor will be like, "Omg! Diaz used tons of footnotes and obscure references to things! This is so cleverly brilliant and brilliantly clever that I can overlook all the many downfalls of this paper having any clear progression! A+!"
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