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Thank you, Battle of Evermore....
Today I bought an old German-made mandolin....I've just been getting back into the guitar, so this is an exciting new venture. "Hans Hauser......Guitarrenbaumeister....Lindau, Germany" which apparently means something along the lines of Hans Hauser Guitar Builders. Eeeeeee! I wonder what I shall name it. Yes, naming your instruments is ( Read more... ) -
Today
Today I saw not one but two girls walking around using their umbrellas as parasols.
And more nuns, again, too. The strange thing was that today their habits appeared to be a powder blue. I've never seen that before. They're always in pairs.
And I realized, for some uncanny reason, that I actually enjoy studying vocabulary for the GRE. -
"feel its texture"
"Let your muscles react in some way as you say or write your thought. See which part of your body the thought wants to erupt through. Some researchers have found that children have a physical reaction―a piece of tension-release in some part of their body, a shiver or a jiggle―when they figure something out."
Writing With Power Elbow (1981) -
"the watergaw is a broken rainbow, a broken shaft of rainbow you can see sometimes between the clou"
Honors Thesis is Done. Hard to fathom. Now I'm free to read other things, too.
"A watergaw wi its chitterin licht...
An I thocht o the last wild look ye gied
Afore ye deed!
An I think that mebbe at last I ken
What your look meant then."
O McDiarmid. -
remember
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Audrey Niffenegger's | Her Fearful Symmetry |
First, let me say that Audrey Niffenegger is a brilliantly creative woman. She has such an extraordinary talent for writing about characters that resonate with readers in such remarkably intimate ways. She weaves realism with what is supernatural with what is beautiful and what is disturbing. This is true of The Time Traveler's Wife, and as soon ( Read more... ) -
there there
In Literature Lost, the shrillest of recent books on the crisis, John Ellis blames the whole mess on the dynamics of professionalization-on, that is, the pressure to publish something, anything, that is novel or startling or upon which a reputation can be built. The publish-or-perish desperation has only increased as the readership for what is ( Read more... ) -
and the winner is
Myndology Disc BoundI have been tempted to buy these for weeks, but I thought nine dollars per one subject notebook was too steep. But, alas, I have succumbed to them upon discovering that the bookstore still had one each of precisely the colors I wanted (this seemed like a moment of truly divine intervention on the part of the notebook god). I was ( Read more... ) -
NOT in water
So my existential crisis this week is choosing notebooks. I initially had this driving notion to buy a huge 5-subject behemoth for each class, as an affirmation of all the heavy/substantial work I'll be doing, for each and every course! How cute of me. As I was going to classes I realized that the little giants were weighing me down/I can barely ( Read more... ) -
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Do you ever outline an entire paper - thesis, topic sentences, evidence, quotations, and all - only to start writing the introduction and ask yourself new questions which collapse the paper plan in its entirety, thus sending you right back to where you started. Ugh! Sometimes I feel limited in exploring the complexity of certain questions because ( Read more... )