Feuding brothers riddle the Bible, but the Jacob and Esau story always stuck with me. I think it may be due to a childhood favorite book by Katherine Paterson, eponymous with the title of this entry: Jacob Have I Loved.  Because the speaker of the quotation above was God, it has always seemed especially haunting, in particular because the Bible, ( Read more... )

I won't get into spoilers (I know there are a few west-coast Losties on my friends list). But...

loophole, mm?

Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes ( Read more... )

Haha.

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

Just for the record ( Read more... )

Regency Hero Dress Up Doll by *savivi on deviantARTAn LJ friend posted her Regency dream man, and I had to check out the link.... it's rather fun ( Read more... )

We are the latest generation, the latest bead
to slide off the broken string of the ages, one seed.
This our chronology is all the laud we can muster
for our share of the human diaspora, a diaphanous cluster
of souls.

We have no lord; we have fashioned instead
The graven images of our own selves, unsatisfied
With our own deity, we can not settle on a ( Read more... )

He spilled out of his eyes irresponsibly,
Split the table in half with his asymptote slice
And twice exuded his negative space
To seep between my atoms, homing like anthrax.
And he, like human Rorsach blots
Spread into my consciousness
And cancelled all my
Fractious comments.  And nature abhorred
The matter between us,
Deleting it all
Like a careful surgeon.
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 After asking harassing Columbia today, I found out that I got into Teachers College too! Now I'm officially in to all four of my grad schools, and I'm a lucky, lucky girl.  Obviously, I will only be able to attend one, so now I will let the games begin. . . ie, start begging for money...

Respond to this post and I'll give you a list of 5 topics I associate with you.  Respond to these topics in your own livejournal and pass on the prompt.  Mine respond to Ariane, who amended the prompt to be more question-y ( Read more... )