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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
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I found this behind the Stedman House, windswept to a wall. I immediately took it home and set my hairdryer on it. With a little ironing, this will stage quite a note.
...of interior design. I am still searching for the song that captures my mood today. I love Caetano Veloso's cover of this song, but it mismatches.
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=58148
Therefore, the thoughts in one's mind at the time of union govern the nature of the two who enter.
I was thinking of the presentation of the proprietary fishing lure of the mind witnessing this trajectory. It didn't help that the June 3, 2014 review of APOe4 by the Roses, who maintain its validity in predicting the onset of its carriers, looked up at me. Whenever I allude to what I want, I tack backward, with an unsettling thesis, to never take that path again. If the resurgence of Vaucluse is mapped to the geographical coordinates in our bodies, then how to distinguish between love's fulfillment, or an organic symptom? I know you tire of the pathologizing, but it recurs so that I can find the treatment, and forestall the activating injury.
Is allowing the fulfillment, and holding you here, the highest expression of Petrarch?
https://books.google.com/books?id=HhEcDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA20&dq=L'appart%20%22facture%20d'%C3%A9lectricit%C3%A9%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=L'appart%20%22facture%20d'%C3%A9lectricit%C3%A9%22&f=false
This is light reading for supervising the turtle outside. I flipped through the recipes, the choux and such, not seeing these in my future until the reversal of the upward trend of gracilis crescentic inner thigh inflating my pant size > 6 female.
I had a dream last night of a tropical location with miniature rice paper houses with box turtles with saffron orange plastrons.
https://books.google.com/books?id=75S7Kfeuw3EC&lpg=PA26&dq=dream%20dictionary%20turtle&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=dream%20dictionary%20turtle&f=false
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/19/5317
It means a lot to my niece that she has a room when she visits in the new house, which is two houses down from where she lived with us until she transferred to her father's custody. I have been searching for a pink to tone down the Pepto bedroom with a bed and display tables for the dollhouses we have accumulated.
https://www.farrow-ball.com/en-us/paint-colours/sulking-room-pink?gclid=Cj0KCQiAxrbwBRCoARIsABEc9sh8IdwPY_T3fzZLaAqL6tPm-Gy0_vq4WGcwswnXm1v99QUsI9O5eNAaAmB8EALw_wcB
https://www.farrow-ball.com/en-us/paint-colours/peignoir
I need to order samples.
The responsibilities that I have here are my maternal grandmother, who starved to death with bedsores when I do not intervene, my niece, and the expenses of this property, of which I am part. Having acquired it with already 30,000 of equity was a wise investment. Maybe you can come over sometime when I am off? I should unpack my bed from storage and fix the gas fireplaces.
I do not see Christine senior living out the year, but she still has a will to live despite the negligence of the facility. I would never want anyone to end up this way, but I am not abandoning her.
You would have to be brave if you came to Montrose. I would pay for you to stay at the Hilton or the Hotel Roanoke. My gesture of good faith, since you drove here another time.*
I am now willing to part with it, and I mean by selling the Stephenson house. I pay for a third of the mortgage, and cannot live there. I can begin with a fresh slate, and my mother can downsize, and retire if she wants, when this arrangement ends.
Unfortunately, disentanglement is not so easy. I face paying my part indefinitely and making enough to have my own life. I pay 500 a month to the appreciating asset that keeps that situation solvent. While I am off from school for a few weeks (after May 7th), I am working overtime. I will finish the Card and Exercise 91.
With my certification exam in early June, I have decided to maintain my schedule without overtime. Perhaps, May 27th, a paid holiday.
I am successful with a sustained, long-term effort like drilling a test bank.
I will finish the bank Monday, and retake the exam in full Monday before the exam, Tuesday, June 4th.
I wasn't given an assignment for Thursday and Friday while the manager is out. I worked on questions yesterday. I will today.
I am at Smith Mountain Lake today. I plan to work on the test bank tonight. I started Nancy Kress's Probability Moon this morning at 3:45.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1KMGCfGTU2EC&pg=PA36&dq=nancy+kress+probability+moon+%22xenobiology%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid-8TZ04aHAxW-FFkFHRaFDZAQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=nancy%20kress%20probability%20moon%20%22xenobiology%22&f=false
I will finish tonight.
We swim on Mondays here.
I am finish my other two books, and catching up on lectures. I work July 3rd and 4th.
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/untitled-pink-palace-64817
https://x.com/nyrbclassics/status/439112827354107904?fbclid=IwY2xjawG6rOtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcffcehT54Q3H0XJFtUzxyhibcB30IjbkwypemitgYsBbILsKmz_mAAlew_aem_kBWTBWXqhdRGJGnt0J5yrw
It is interesting that the preface to this book is indebted to the assimilated Berlin philosopher on the run, Walter Benjamin:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Enchantments/yUv_DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
To be read, too:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Illuminations/mV06rdTclagC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
"The fundamental motive here is one – a religious experience, a spiritual effervescence – sometimes feverish, ofttimes tranquil; in short, the birthpangs of a Jewish soul. This creation is private and personal – if you will, even subjective. Essentially, it is the ger's intimacy with the Holy One. The king has brought me into his chamber,' and no stranger will trespass into the inner sanctum. Nothing is more a matter of the heart than gerut, and, in the channels of the heart, can there be room for external involvement?"
https://etzion.org.il/en/holidays/shavuot/conversion
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