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Beautiful, elegant, understated: I watched Brokeback Mountain. I don't think I've cried so much in a movie for a long time. I could ruin it with a long explication but there's no need. Just watch it. -
The Process of Being Just
Today I was to begin my Platonic lifestyle: wake up early, take exercise, eat simply but well, surround myself with only the most beautiful of words and the most uplifting of music, and spend my time concentrating on my current social function of being a philosophy student. I woke up at 11.45, magnetised to my sheets, self-loathing my discordant ( Read more... ) -
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I hate this a little. When the show is over, where does one hide? The writing is inscribed on a pixellated screen: a panellised monologue. A tube of ultramarine blue acrylic paint is being crushed under my foot along with a several pieces of lined paper, one containing notes on Plato’s view of justice; and I’m indifferent to these physical masses. ( Read more... ) -
House
I admit it. I'm a House addict. Or I am from today. Even though I had high tolerance levels for House, I didn't find it particularly entertaining or interesting. The novelty of having Hugh Laurie with an American accent limping about with a cane soon wears off. It's usually the same old set up: the introduction shows the main patient falling ill ( Read more... ) -
Modules, lunacy, cats.
On my bed is a large, soft-back copy of "Ethics: The Big Questions". It is a foot in length, approximately twenty centimetres wide and four-hundred and forty-six pages long. I also must buy a CUP version of Plato's Republic and an out-of-print introduction to him. After reading an excerpt from Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" the idea of embarking on ( Read more... ) -
Back on the Writing Wagon: Tracing the Ink Lines of the Past.
It’s time to write freely again without the irritating restraints of stress and essay-vernacular to hound me! Whooo! There’s something liberating about journaling and so what harm is there in it? So the past week has been ridiculous. I worked myself up into such an irrational and irresponsible stress that I practically ceased functioning mentally ( Read more... ) -
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Life is good at the moment. I won't even think of the essay until next week's tutorial. I actually had a decent lunch today, that is to say, I had lunch. I have my appetite back! Today is a day to be happy ( Read more... ) -
misery
it's almost two. miserableness. oh miserableness.
