Following on from my last post, here's a poem:

Ode to Paan

O destroyer of speech,
stopped is my tongue
and stainèd are my teeth.

On and on I masticate,
but end there is none.

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I reckon I should do this for a living!

(For the record, the paan that my mum gave me whilst I was writing that last post, I'm still chewing it. :P)

Following Saturday night's geek-fest-o-rama of a Dr Who episode, can I just say (and I doubt I'm the first ( Read more... )

The last twenty seconds of the s3 BSG finale are just brilliant. But I can't believe we have to wait til early 2008 to find out what happens next!! Argh!

In other news, revision is driving me maaaaaad. Well, I say 'revision'. I mean, I've been working and stuff but it feels very inconsequential, not like proper work. Not sure when I'll get ( Read more... )

I'm three-quarters of my way through reading Simon Armitage's translation (or should I say imitation?) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and I've already spotted three typos! *tuts* Things like that upset me ( Read more... )

I wish David Tennant was *my* English teacher. Phwoar!

At home, mum's food is top.

Hehehe, I've managed to get Hot Fuzz into my extended essay. Well, more accurately, into a footnote, but still. Woo!

(UGH bloody essay I'm going to be here ALL night)

“As a rich, sensorially composite language characterized by what Metz calls ‘codic heterogeneity’, the cinema becomes a receptacle open to all kinds of literary and pictorial symbolism, to all types of collective representation, to all ideologies, to all aesthetics, and to the infinite play of influences within cinema, within the other arts, and ( Read more... )

ROSLIN & ADAMA 4EVA!!!!

[/battlestar geekery]

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Hm, I realise I haven't really updated this properly in a while. Maybe I'll get round to it at some point, but first I must attend to this pesky essay. Rargh.

But. I'm writing about Titus Andronicus, which is Shakespeare's bloodiest, goriest, most violent play, so it's all good - I get to ( Read more... )

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