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by any other heteronym...
I am working on my poetry unit...which I'll be teaching for a few weeks. I've decided to add some Portuguese flavor by incorporating some Fernando Pessoa. I probably won't use this poem, but I love it and thought I'd share.
I Don't Know If the Love You Give Is Love You Have
I don't know if the love you give is love you have
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robot love
Juls! Thank you so much for the snail mail. I was so excited when I opened the envelope and saw what was inside. I fell in love with these when you made that post the other day. They're the cutest, coolest things ever. Love it! Thank you! *huggles*
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resting on the shoulders of your name
Do you ever feel like people can see right through you? Like they can look into your eyes and look right into your soul? I hate it. I hate that some people have the power to see me at my most vulnerable. It's too intimate. I want to hide behind my sunglasses now. -
virginal dreams
Book 11: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch [Dai Sijie]
This was an odd sort of novel with an odd sort of protagonist-- a middle aged Freudian scholar who returns to his native China after studying psychoanalysis in Paris for eleven years, Oh! And, as the author keeps reminding us again and again, he's a virgin. I was never completely engrossed in or ( Read more... ) -
Queen or Nothing
Book 10: Anne Boleyn (Norah Lofts)
I've always been fascinated by the story of Henry VIII and his six wives. (And often looked upon strangely when I tell people that Katherine of Aragon is my favorite queen. You have a favorite queen? They ask. And why poor Katherine?) I had just been to watch The Other Boleyn Girl (good movie, even better book) and ( Read more... ) -
do I have to wear an apron for this?
Book 9: The Future Homemakers of America
This is a book about friendship, about women and the lives they lead, the mistakes they make, the challenges they overcome. A product of the 80s and brought up in an environment where women are empowered to become anything and everything they wish to become, I often feel angered by stories of women who are ( Read more... ) -
The man was a force of nature no mortal could possibly control
Book 8: Cat's Cradle [Kurt Vonnegut]
It's hard to believe that I had never read this book because I am a huge Vonnegut fan. I love his writing style, his unconventional sense of humor.
Although I didn't like this as much as Slaughterhouse-Five, my favorite of his books, this was still a fantastic and entertaining read. I love the way it is separated ( Read more... ) -
i know the world is black and white
I've been meaning to post this, but kept forgetting. The Bell Jar is being made into a movie. And guess who's playing Esther.... no other than Julia Stiles. I can totally see it. She's always reminded me of Sylvia Plath. There's just something about her. I'm so excited! [Probably more excited than a normal person should be...]
Like I said in my ( Read more... ) -
when you've been stealing from yourself
Book 7: Jemima J
(Jane Green)
I had never heard of this book or its author until a few days before I started reading it. Still, I read the back, categorized it as a "chick read" and decided to give it a go. And I was right; definitely a girly book, a story about a British woman who loses a bunch of weight and discovers that being super skinny does ( Read more... )
