September 2011
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“In the beginning was the Word, which is to say, the signifier.”
– Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, trans. Dennis Porter (via proustitute)
Oh, Lacan. You really know how to whip a girl into a semiotic frenzy.
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I was SO productive today.
I spent 5 hours studying in the grad student center and cleaned the shit out of my room.
I didn’t run this morning because of lady times, but I walked to and from campus (that’s a 40 minute walk, altogether).
I have to read 20 pages in German and write a paragraph about them in German. I have to decide what I’m writing about for my Lit Theory paper and do some outlining.
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mikeythemethmatician:
I ain’t sayin she a gold digger but she did move west to california in 1849.
bahaha.
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T R: “Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered... →
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions…
German is pretty much the best.
Sometimes I forget how much I love Jack's...
But then I remember again and my life gets that much better.
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“She is a tornado.
He is a man. He is solid and humble.
She tells the story...”
– Jeanann Verlee, the telling (via grammatolatry)
Freckles pile at her feet.
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I was A Disturbance in class today.
But Derrida said “if we may be permitted to garden this botanical metaphor” and I just couldn’t keep my shit together. I laughed aloud and everyone looked at me.
And then I kept thinking about it later in class and cracking up again.
PUNS.
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Two days until Third Eye Blind.
eeeeek! :D
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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by...”
– Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses (via wordpainting)
Terrific novel. Terrific quotation.
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‘Cause I remember what we said as we lay...
This afternoon I doubted my knowledge of the day of the week and even the time. My professor was late for class and the other student wasn’t there, so I thought I had the day and time and the room and everything wrong.
I just put all my deadlines into iCal.
October is going to suck. November and December will be a lot better.
Breathe. And breathe again. And keep breathing.
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“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation...”
– David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman)
I just want to bake all of the things.
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“I hate and I love. Why? You might ask.
I don’t know. But I feel it happening...”
– Catullus, fragment 85, translated by Anne Carson (via senseofchampagnechic)
Thanks, PhD school...
…for teaching me sweet medieval German insults.
The dwarf in “Erec” just called Erec “Abscheu der Sonne,” which means abomination of the sun.
Abomination of the sun.
Awesome.
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– ― Jonathan Safran Foer (via bookwormshaven)
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