I've half a mind to let it fall to pieces,
this bothersome identity which I've
expended so much verse to keep alive,
shoring it up with some impassioned rhesis.

I weary of the wrangling to derive
what kind of person I am.  For this thesis
the spirit-draining struggle never ceases,
nor does the longed-for entity arrive.

I am a man who rages at his ( Read more... )

"I showed my heart to the doctor, he said I just have to quit
then he wrote himself a prescription and your name was mentioned in it
then he locked himself in a library shelf with the details of our honeymoon
and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse and his practice is all in a ruin"

"Snell reports statistics that are absolutely astounding: records survive of women in fifteenth-century london as full apprentices and guild members in the silk trade; in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the statutes of the masons' and carpenters' guilds are addressed to "systeren and bretheren"; until late in the seventeenth century women, in ( Read more... )

Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day,
But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlasts not May.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

I should

NEVER EVER EVER

put my glasses anywhere but where I always put them.

(but I'm glad to have them back)

To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside ( Read more... )

Chapter two in what is (I hope) close to its final form, has exactly 111 footnotes.

Amazon is always quick to tell me (via email) whenever they've got their hands on a new Plutarch (or one of the old ones goes on sale).  Why Plutarch?  I can't have bought more than three books by Plutarch in my life, and only two of them (if that) can have been from Amazon.

When recovering from an illness, do not embark upon a hilarious chain of events that ends with you stranded all night at the Southeast Grind.

When one enters "Towards  a poetics of metrical determination" (the tentative title for the first chapter of my thesis) into Translation Party, it reaches equalibrium at  "The Poetics of quantitative analysis."  Someone should write a thesis called "The Poetics of quantitative analysis."