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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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https://www.wallacecollection.org/blog/june-treasure-of-the-month-2020/
https://www.wallacecollection.org/collection/rainbow-landscape/
Morrissey sang this on his eighth studio album Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006).
My favorite track is "Dear God Please Help Me" which I first heard the cover on my favorite album by Marianne Faithfull, Easy Come, Easy Go (2006).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlPMh61NDQ
Another favorite cover by Smokey Robinson (1965):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rdh7SThoDU
I bought this to support a local independent bookstore because there is a box turtle featured; not a self-help memoir enthusiast. I also bought a photo puzzle of kites on the beach where I frequent and Matt Haig's The Life Impossible...and another clean copy of Asimov's Robots and Dawn. Atticus ripped the cover off mine in a cabinet in the office.
https://images.app.goo.gl/LXnt5
https://books.google.com/books?id=sN_UEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Robots_of_Dawn.html?id=3gsDbkG2inYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Atticus turned three yesterday. We are doing something for him this weekend. He is going to Honeytree with his sister (separate building) this summer.
Yes, Easy Come, Easy Go (2008) remains one of my favorite albums, but second to Give My Love to London (2014).
Atticus is iffy on routinized toileting with his peers. The sister who runs the place told Keith that he was drinking out of the toilet yesterday. He is still better off there than with his mother in the house in the polypharmaceutical cloud.
Unrelated:
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/7/6586
Every year that I work July 4th, it gets busier and busier. Yesterday, my student from California, who attends Liberty, was dumbfounded it could be so busy with such sick patients. Apparently, the regulated industry on the West Coast never takes new graduate nurses. I reminded her of the unique mandatory staffing ratios of her home state.
Thank you, for reminding me of the article above about brain-derived insulin. I will read that again.
Yesterday, I ran around all the buildings a lot at work, and I awoke this morning with a charley horse bolting my right leg up in bed. A quick draft of milk of magnesia was curative.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7025716/
"The demonstrated efficacy of IV magnesium to prevent eclamptic seizures (Eclampsia Trialists 1995), and the neuromuscular suppression (loss of strength, diminished reflexes) which can manifest when high parenteral doses of magnesium are used (Somjen 1966), both suggest that magnesium could potentially play a role in reducing neuromuscular excitability. Although the mechanism behind skeletal muscle cramps is unclear, if a threshold for depolarization needs to be reached within motor neurons to initiate cramping, anything which conceivably reduces excitability might provide cramp prophylaxis. Hence, if magnesium supplementation were to truly suppress excitable tissue, it might also suppress muscle cramps. This would be consistent with the description of symptoms said to arise from severe magnesium deficiency, which include muscle cramping, though probably as a manifestation of tetany (Bilbey 1996; Hall 1973; Shils 1969)."
I need to spend some time on the spoliation of the panels, roundels and sculpture of the Arch of Constantine (312 C.E.), which were taken from Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius. This was treated hastily on last night's quiz, but I will have to write about it in essay on the midterm, which I take early because a midterm after working twelve hours is a non-start item.
https://books.google.com/books?id=SLETEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&dq=arch+of+constantine+spoliation&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv2ZfHt4-QAxVRE1kFHRU7Gi0Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=arch%20of%20constantine%20spoliation&f=false
I need to read the Artscroll Sukkot book today. This is my favorite holiday, and I do not have the means to celebrate it for now, I am I inspired in the sense of being sheltered. The letter Peh forms a Bet, which is a Beit or house within the world. I have oak leaves on my desk for this Exercise.
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