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 "Today is gone
Today was fun
Tomorrow is another one
From there to here
From here to there
Funny things are everywhere."
-Dr. Seuss

"It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so plesantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily.  Doubts creep in.  Then one becomes resigned.  Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.  I'm a little anxious ( Read more... )

 "Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.  My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
                                  But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose leaves
I do not know"

-T.S. Eliot

i sat on the subway this morning composing a livejournal entry.  of course, i didn't get to write it down so i don't remember it at all ( Read more... )

“On the whole, I do not much mind; because what I like is to flash and dash from side to side, goaded on by what I call reality.  If I never felt these extraordinarily pervasive strains - of unrest or rest or happiness or discomfort - I should float down into acquiescence.  Here is something to fight; and when I wake early I say to myself Fight, ( Read more... )

Dorothea Olkowski says at every moment, we experience two kinds of becoming: one of exteriority (the isolated image that we see before us) and one of affect, memory, recollection.  So, when you look at a tree, you see the tree itself, and simultaneously see/experience memories related to trees and feel things related to the memories.  I think.
We ( Read more... )

"For the frist time, the body no longer couples itself up with the world, it clasps another body, applying [itself to it] carefully with its whole extension, forming tirelessly with its hands the strange statue which in its turn gives everything it recieves; the body is lost outside of the world and its goals, fascinated by the unique occupation of ( Read more... )

i'm facing trouble from the copyrighting elite.
they're much worse than the media elite.
snooty british men with sticks up their butts.
won't let me do dalloway because i'm not an 'established dramatist'.
i'll sue!  i'll fight!  i'll kick some copyrighting ASS!!!

in other news it almost wasn't sunny today but then it changed its mind, and i am very ( Read more... )

hello friends.  it's been awhile.

so i'm still doing the whole new york/grad school thing.  i am slowly getting more and more adjusted to life in the city.  i'm living in a beautiful apartment with good friends and i'm really lucky for that.  the program is difficult in multiple ways, though definitely invigorating and exciting.  i don't often ( Read more... )