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I've been in denial about this since I've been old enough to know what "virginal" means, but now it's official:
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I have my first apartment! It's all mine. I will have a key, and a door, and maybe even a bed^1.
I've only ever had my own room twice in my life before, and I lived with other people, so this is a momentous occasion in my young life. SO MUCH CONTROL. I will be an aesthetic dictator. And I will have guests! (It's so typically me that the first ( Read more... ) -
Forget Experience.
Movies can teach us everything we need to know.
Instead of suffering through years of disappointing friendships, I could have watched High Noon and learned that friends are people who show up when you need them to do something unpleasant with you ( Read more... ) -
pyramids and Die Zauberfl
I just dreamt that extraneous encouraged me to join him in being a freemason. He assured me that it would solve all my personal problems. It made so much sense to me that he was a freemason; it like, explained everything.
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Dante criticism makes me sweat
"Just as the pilgrim stands in the place of Narcissus's image looking up at his original, so does God, therefore, stand as the Original Narcissus gazing down at His image in the pilgrim" (McMahon, 'Satan as the Infernal Narcissus' ). -
Think Sleep
While in the middle of last week's essay crisis I (re)discovered my ability to think during my sleep. This used to manifest more subtly as the knowledge that my essay would be improved if I slept on it (proverbially, not literally). However, last week while taking a three hour nap break I thought about Bacon's influence on Thomas Browne (don't ask ( Read more... ) -
There's no theodicy here
It will be so good to make things again that aren't essays. Lately, when I stare into space in the middle of reading a sentence, I'm fantasizing about what to cook for Christmas dinner, or the breakfast parties I want to have. Because of my prolonged illness, I'll be working into ninth week, but I'm so close to being free. I still haven't properly ( Read more... ) -
"Courtesy steeped in the symbolism of redemption"
I've just spent five or six hours in the library, forcing myself to read more than fidget, and my efforts were rewarded ( Read more... ) -
Thanks, Ralph
"'Take things more easily. Don't ask yourself so much whether this or that is good for you. Don't question your conscience so much - it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions. Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best, and your ( Read more... ) -
Free association
where I'm coming from ( Read more... )