I shall! I actually don't mind the sound of that, for some reason. I'm looking for something long, dry and static after this MA - and I've heard it's also talking just bellow the surface about a lot of Enlightenment philosophy like Locke, John S. Mill, David Hume, and Emerson. I'm familiar with two of those, but I'll be reading Emerson pretty soon anyway - so it's all good.
That's an understatement. Bloom loves Shakespeare. I even think at one point he said that Shakespeare "invented humanity" or something like that.
Well, that's as good a guess as any. Maybe some people think Thomas Edison invented humanity, but it turns out that's not true. He invented lots of other things (spandex, miniskirts, platform heels, tramp stamps, hip-hop, Sex on the Beach, cable news, Saturday Night Live, bobbleheads, the designated hitter, Silly Putty, lava lamps, bifocal lenses (or was that Ben Franklin?), whoopee cushions, bell bottoms, deep-fried Snickers bars, miniature golf, breakdancing, mullets, sparkly vampires, aqueducts, mood rings, the metric system, Cocoa Puffs, non-alcoholic beer, debit cards, patchouli, truck nuts, cyberterrorism, the Higgs boson, Mongolian throat singing, streaking, Steadicam, shaky cam, inline skates, VHS, zip codes, Esperanto, thong underwear, Greco-Roman wrestling, grapefruit spoons, labradoodles, unicycles, and gravity), but not humanity.
No, Harold Bloom invented sitting around on his ass bitching about any writer who has the unmitigated gall and bad taste to still be alive. Come to think of it, that's humanity, right? You have an airtight case!
Wonderful. ^.^ It's settled. I know Bloom hates David Foster Wallace, but loves Delillo and Pynchon. I don't want to say Bloom hates writers who have popularity, but someone else will eventually.
My phone kept freaking out so I temporarily transferred my sim- and sd-card to an unused Sony Ericsson my brother had laying around. The insides of my dear old Samsung are now soaking in some distilled water, which, according to my brother, is about the last chance to save it (but really he thinks it's doomed). So yeah, I now realized how spoiled I am, because I miss android and whatsapp and I really don't know where's what on this phone. /firstworldproblems
Mercury is the first world. Venus is the second world. Earth, alas, is the third world. Mars is the fourth world. Etc. etc. etc. all the way out to Asgard and places like that.
Wait, does that mean that to the Sun, Earth and beyond are considered insignificant, Venus is the enemy and Mercury is her ally?
Balancing my character being overly whiny and my character pushing it home how much some stuff sucks is difficult. Every time I reread I feel like I glanced over his feelings too much, so I edit it in and then reread and find what I wrote too verbose and self indulgent, like some tween's blog about the struggle's of middle school. So on and so forth ad infinitum. Bah. On real life news however. I just swore into the Marine Corps yesterday , going to boot in August.
Something something walls, something something blanket of freedom. Nah, letters only. Otherwise I'm completely cut off from you wonderful folks, sadly.
Ok, just letters/words. Let's not get you into trouble. ... I just missed the meaning of that post, didn't I? Well, have fun!
I am writing a semi-autobiographical short story which I will actually finish this time because it is a school assignment. Two of the characters in it are real people with altered names and appearances. I have very mixed feelings about them, and it's interesting to try to paint them in a somewhat negative light without making them worse than they actually are.
