For this week, we'll be doing a fun Class Exercise: Pathways 6.3, the "Active Object" (p. 105). The first part of the exercise is essentially Show and Tell -- you're to choose one item that you keep in your room, apartment, or house that you associate with a particular event or some meaningful activity that you have participated in as you wore or acquired that item. You may respond either via a brief video recording introducing your object to us or a photo of you with your object and telling us why you chose it. Whichever option you chose, you're to also write about the event you most remember as connected to that item, and post what you've written here for the class to respond.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky