I'm sure one day I'll meet him and marry him. I hope my girlfriend doesn't mind. But observing standards of prose, character and eloquence of language is much better that than twittering on about Derrida or Barthes' 'Mort de'author', and always desperately trying to come up with something/anything to say I guess. That was going to be a stab at Zizek, but no - I do like some of the things he says. God damn it!
I'd imagine he's getting on in his years, but true love conquers all, right? Just throw some Zizek quotes at your girlfriend about openness and the need to fulfill your boundless free spirit. Actually, you might be the perfect person to ask. Do you know any books about the canon that focus on what made the writing great? Moreso novels. Big plans me has.
You are a genius, has anyone ever told you that? Who cannot be helped but be swooned by Zizek the love doctor? A few come instantly to mind. The first one is The Western Canon and Shakespeare: Invention of the Human, both by Harold Bloom, there is Why Read The Classics by Italio Calvino, a very good book which pretty much focuses on novels and few references to drama and ... one (I think) chapter on The Odyssey and that's about it. The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton, which is alright. Harold Bloom has this weird habit of giving Shakespeare way too much credit in the same way Eagleton gives Karl Marx way too much credit. If I think of any more I'll PM you.
That sounds good. That Eagleton one might be what I'm after, like the common qualities of a good story, not a Dummies book, but one that examines the greatness that literature would possess. How megalomaniac of me to ask such a thing, tsk tsk.
I'd strongly recommend reading at least The Western Canon by Bloom too, in that case. Bloom's book came out in I think the early 1990s, during the so-called 'canon wars', and written against the 'school of resentment' or academic criticism based on political world views, while Bloom is a staunch aestheticist.
Yeah, I never really got that part of the English department. I could handle all my eco-feminist interpretations (you say that now, and laugh, but wait, just wait), my p's and q's. Definitely the novel's aesthetics. Now where's my cookie cutter....
Watching Game of Thrones on Xfinity. It has the whole series up to the Season 5 Finale. #1- WHY WAS I NOT WATCHING THIS ALL ALONG?! This is actually pretty good! #2- Please tell me there are more Game of Thrones seasons coming. *An hour later* NOPE! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOT FOR ME! Too disturbing and graphic...
I wonder if @Mans lives anywhere near here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/?tid=sm_fb
Usually I'm not so much for spoken word etc., but I found this really powerful and impressive, so I wanted to share.
So this happened: (Read from bottom to top) This woman has never read any of my stuff. I've never had her in a workshop class before. And now I'm 100% certain that she is in for a gigantic disappointment.
I was actually pretty certain I would become the websites first stalker, so this would be a nice surprise
The woman has responded to my work. Her feedback deserves to be replicated verbatim for the sake of posterity. That was very humbling.
@Steerpike Edited to Add: And I got a tiny version if you want that as your profile. The curve needs to be adjusted to make it suitable for tiny viewing.
@Jack Asher I like that image. Looks like the cat has had a long day. His face would make a good avatar
Yes. It seems "I'm only looking for a workout/running partner in the area, that's all" is grindr code for "please send me medically detailed and close-up photos of your junk".
I'm currently playing Legend of Kay. It's a 2005 game re-mastered for current gen. The graphics and animation are abysmal, the plot is a huge cliché, but there's something oddly endearing about it that makes me want to keep playing it. Basically, it's a world that resembles Feudal China that's populated entirely of beast-folk (cats, gorillas, and rats.) You play Kay, a young, headstrong ninja cat. What makes this even cuter and bizarre that if you set the language to anything other than English, you can have the Ninja cats speak Spanish, French, German, or Italian. The thing that worries me is that Kay looks almost exactly like how I imagine my fictional catfolk character from my fantasy. Just give Kay bushy yellow hair and horns and there you go. I swear, if he meets a blind human assassin/ninja, I'm giving up. xD
My daughter is grumpy today. She believes that zero snakes in her bedroom is far too few, whereas myself and my wife believe zero to be exactly the right number of snakes. She's seen a corn-snake in the pet shop and wants one. This would entail feeding it dead mice (which could be useful when the cats bring them in). This task that would, no doubt, fall to me, when my daughter loses interest in the creature. Dead mice are available from the local pet shop, but since a snake requires only one a week, we'd have to keep a pack of deceased rodents in our freezer, with the food. Me thinks not somehow. The pet my daughter would really like is a dragon, but dragons are a little hard to come by these days.
Buy her How to Train Your Dragon or Skyrim. Wait, the latter is killing dragons so get her the first.
