Quotation from Atwan02

"Mulched perhaps in its contradictions it (essay) promises no sure objectivity just the condiment of opinion on the base of observation." - Edward Hoagland.

This Quote by Edward Hoagland stood out to me during the reading of Atwano2 because of the imagery that it created in my brain as I read it. The word "mulched," is what first caught my eye. As I think of "mulch," the image of a solid limb or small tree being inserted into a mulching machine that is violently thrashed as it is torn apart, and watching the little bits of wood fly in every direction on the other side. I believe that though this quotation is small, it is open to several meanings depending on how it is interpreted. One might think that the use of the word "mulched," might be illistrating how an essays contradictions may shred it up or make it lose its credibility. I however percieve the meaning of the word "mulched," to illistrate the innumeral amount of ways that a writing can be created or interpreted, which I believe is also true.
The rest of the quote also simply makes sense to me, because simply put, an essay is materialized inside of a persons head as the matter of the essay pertains to an expirience or observation that the author may have made. And the subsequant opinions illustrated in essays are the child of those observations that where made. This is characteristic (In my opinion) of all forms of expression from painting, to music. As a writer of music I know that my music is written off of particular feelings or emotions that occur when I observe something about life or events that I take in and those observations turn into formed opinions that dictate my feelings on the matter.