...By necessity, I suppose, it is difficult for me to explain in English exactly what I mean. I can only say that an incendium is in its nature entirely different from the feu with which a Frenchman lights his cigarette, and both are very different from the stark, inhuman pur that the Greeks knew, the pur that roared from the towers of Ilion or leapt... Read More
I'll add that one to my list. I'm on a bit of a reading craze lately; I have the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings (50th Aniv. Edition, leather cover and all sorts of goodies) and Ubik on the list so far. In the middle of The Simarillion right now.
Okay, I feel like I owe y'all something, since you've been so patient both during my extended absences and my maudlin scribblin'. There's so much gorgeousness and gorgeousity out there in this great big beautiful world and the fact that I'm sitting around crying in my Cheerios is downright stupid.
I have a lot to be happy about; for example, today I realized that I... Read More
ya gotta love neil hannon. and to his eternal credit, he helped out with a famous irish comedy called father ted.
wrote this for the programe, my lovely horse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKqEU6jlNw
From Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross:
CHAPTER V
Sets down the first line and begins to explain how this dark contemplation is not only night for the soul but is also grief and torment.
THIS dark night is an inflowing of God into the soul, which purges it from its ignorances and imperfections, habitual natural and spiritual, and which... Read More
It's a shame that secular America is so bent on throwing out religion's babies along with it's bathwater.
And it's a shame that religious America... well, that more or less covers it I guess.
When it seems appropriate I try to remind folks that nobody enjoyed a good metaphor more than Christ
Have you considered doing a progressed chart? Sometimes it can help to see what Saturn is grinding over. My Saturn Return was a triple, direct over the natal point, retrograde back over it, and direct again. I know, that's a ways off yet for you, but Saturn isn't to be treated lightly at any time.
I won't let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It's the one good thing that I've got
I won't let you down
So please don't give me up
'cause I would really,... Read More
Tarnation! pygmy wasn't able to make it out Carolina ways this weekend after all; I wonder if the illness that struck me down on Thursday traveled via the intertubz to afflict her sweetness. Some other day, then.
I am sitting nude upon my knockoff Eames chair (formerly the possession of this great man) that so many of y'all have commented upon with a nice... Read More
My Fluxinatrix, I've missed you! I had a bout of illness (as opposed to a bout of injury, which is more commonly my wont), only to return to a new set of yours, which is both lovely as well as fodder for our ongoing alcohol debate. At least I was relieved to read in a previous entry that you don't like white wine.
Eventually, you'll find kindred souls at Your Current Institution, even if they wind up being staff and faculty rather than your supposed peers. I myself would give my eye teeth to be back in the ol' Ivory Tower, where I studied and worked until age 28, and have never quite gotten over it
I keep trying to write a journal entry detailing what my first week back in school was like, but it feels so uninspired. So, instead, here is a rambling collection of thoughts I have had during the past week.
1. My 19th-century Russian literature course is making me absolutely ache to take Russian language courses back up (yes, I took a year of Russian at... Read More
"At the risk of sounding like a completely egomaniacal cunt (FTR, I am not completely so; I have some small measure of humility), I am way smarter than most of the people" - that i am surrounded by.... ( i dont have classes, so had to change the last part...)
I feel this way about the people i work with. they are both intellegent, but are both so closed minded that they refuse to learn anything that is relevant in a modern world. does that make sence? im not so sure it does, but you aren't alone in your feeling.
Safe flight.