knowledge always comes in paris or more

I am reading John Irving's Cider House Rules. The first part is about orphans and orphanage. It reminds me of the various books and movies I have encountered lately about orphanage:

1. The Kite Runner (book), a orphanage in Afghanistan
2. The Italian (movie), an orphanage in Russia
3. Cider House Rules (book), an orphanage in Maine, US

Comparative study of the orphanage? I don't know. But after these encounters with orphans in arts, I want to help.

Oh, also when I was reading Lomesome Dove, there's a boy Newt who was brought up as an orphan although Captain Call was be his father, and I was surprised that for 17 years nobody could tell the resemblance between father and son. Then in Cider House Rules, Homer Wells and Candy had a illegitimate son then claiming the boy was adopted, and for 15 years or so nobody could tell the likeness between parents and son. These scenes really bother me.

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I just finished TTC (The Teaching Company)'s lecture on Mr. Lincoln, and learned about his life and the civil war. Then the next lecture I listened to, by accident, is Abolitionism, Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the American Civil War. It's like reinforcement learning. Today I started a new course on Argumentation. The professor will give two historical arguments as examples throughout the course, and one of the arguments is the Lincoln-Douglas debate. How timely! A few days ago I had never heard of the famous debate.

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When I was waiting in a long line today in school, I was reading Cider House Rules and was at the passage about Angel. When it was my turn to talk to the person behind the counter, I saw that his name tag said Angel. What chance!

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One more... On Monday, my friend Allen Poe told me about a musician who plays a musical saw, and I laughed at the idea. On Sunday, Mike and I watched the movie Delicatessen, and the main character plays a musical saw. Wow!