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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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The first cartoon will go here, about quorum sensing, where someone reads from a book, and lifts a sleeve from the lab bench. The spill has grown.
http://aem.asm.org/content/78/16/5473.full?sid=34137b08-31e1-4a9b-8564-672ed8104951
Thank you, for reminding me how much I love cartoons.
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https://rozchast.com/cartoons_unclassifiable.shtml
https://www.seagravegallery.com/content/feature/96/artworks-863-edward-weston-kelp-1930/
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https://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?4887
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https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fabric/mOFIEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=finlay%20fabric&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
The Kleiner 16th edition of Art Through the Ages was first read in 2006 among a full course load, and with a hostile elderly woman demeaning herself with slides to the thin audience of girls at eight in the morning. I took notes to get through, then. I am reading the updated textbook now.
The 3.2-mile walk this evening yielded this and a 2021 edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train (1950).
https://images.app.goo.gl/BXdcM
I take Prehistoric to Gothic this fall, which is out of sequence. The Kleiner 16th edition will also be in use.
I took care of my gym teacher's partner today - she taught me in the nineties when I was eight through eleven years old. She had not changed; she was still in shape in her seventies. She said she sees the children she taught all over the area, and it was very gratifying to be remembered.
The one observation I made about those two from August 2025 - they were still unhappy and searching, for something, within each other. The inequitable equation between them remained, no matter how many good deeds they did.
"Last time, Mabit discussed ways yisurim address the past; now, he takes up two ways they can be a function of the future. The easier of the two to understand is protective yisurim, where a moment of suffering now stops the righteous person from acting in a way that will damage him/her (especially spiritually, I think he means).
He gives the analogy of someone who gets a thorn in his foot and therefore misses a boat that turns out to be doomed to sink; I think he means Gd sometimes hinders a person from a path that would lead them down a bad road."
https://www.torahmusings.com/2021/09/yisurim-punishment-and-repentance/
From my forensics class this fall - slippage facilitates adipocere. I do not stare too much into this abyss. I can say that I have a working knowledge of it after all those shows I watched for the A&P, now.
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