ENGL 104W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dumpster Diving, Foodborne Illness, Urban Art
16 Sep 2016
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The word dumpster = proprietary word that belongs to dempsey dumpster company: the word should b capitalized but most other places you find the word it is lowercase. Speaker began dumpster diving ~1yr before becoming hopeless: prefers scavenging . Lives from the refuse of others (his nice = sound & honorable: uses scrounging when meaning to be vague, people sometimes use foraging to be nice. Speaker uses this word to refer to the gathering of nuts/berries. Forages according to the season & opportunity: finds dumpster diving too cute of a phrase and inaccurate b/c lacks ability to lower self into dumpsters (true divers do this though to find better food) Would prefer to live as a slightly-less wasteful consumer due to what they have learned as a scavenger. Lived w/dog (lizbeth) in a house on avenue b in austin: as savings ran out, put the little income he had into rent, necessities came from dumpsters.
