Part of the first comment at the end of The poet who could smell vowels, which celebrates René de Saussure’s life.
“Thank you so much for your deeply human portrayal of the man Saussure. So often, as you say, we do (or perhaps must) reduce these human idea-factories to a few memorable phrases or greatest-hits concepts. [...]
Articulating Lawrence’s theories deadens them in the novel. the metaphors become dramatizations of his obscure language rather than open metaphors with the suggestion of what he’s writing about.
Similarly, The Rainbow is only successful because Ursula’s story is unfinished and unresolved. We don’t know what happens to her–only that she has the potential to become a [...]
Andrew Harrison. “D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Perfervid futuristc Style” and the Writing of the Body in The Rainbow“. Writing the Body in D.H. Lawrence. Paul Poplawksi ed. Greenwood Press: Connecticut. 2001. p43
Essay examins and summarizes Galsworthy’s attack on The Rainbow, Futuristic style of writing in the Ursula sections. Galsworthy attacks Lawrence’s reiterative style. Essay examins how [...]
Weeee! I didn’t even know this. I should walk through the MU Quad more often!
Link to Slashdot’s “Slashback” article… OSU’s blurb is at the bottom
Take Back The Sidewalk! Spread Firefox site too. :) :) :)
In Other News: I hope all you browncoats who are probably starting to loiter outside the theater in Portland all [...]
Quote of the Day:
Gav (7:53): I am complex like a centipede–many, many redundant simple parts.
*sigh* Trying to write a stupid paper… gawd. this is hard. Ridiculous how difficult it is to write a paper that I am actually interested in. Or… maybe I’m interested in it because it’s challenging. Maybe [...]
Wonderful complex ambiguity in Henry James’ stuff. My freshman year, I read Daisy Miller and started to write a cyber-punk “version” of that story (very bad. don’t ask for a copy) because I was so impressed with the skill involved in building and creating doubt, questioning, and a fundamental inability to know the truth [...]
So, today I had two meetings, neither of which involved me contributing anything accept laughter at Geff for leaving us to pick up his tab the night before after our Budget-request thingie. I was slightly annoyed at the website meeting though, because the first half was basically my boss and co-worker talking about security [...]
Oxymoron of the day: significant minorities.
Word of the day: kokusaika (国際化）：the discourse of “internationalization”. I’m reading about how that word actually seems to mean “Americanization” and the significance of that disparity. Kinda interesting.
This is what I’m working on right now. A five-page essay on nietzsche.
Give me feedback NOW BITCH!
Among the many related concepts explored in “On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche describes a human existence in which it is impossible to ever directly experience or understand what reality actually is. He [...]
First class was Japanese… at bloody 8am. Gawd. Coffee shops are not even open in time for me to grab some caffeine before class either. Stupid coffee shops. I’m going to really dislike that morning class. Oh well.
I walked into my second class all stoked and happy because it meets [...]