qato

have just decided to read all of nabokov's novels. progress so far:

lolita
bend sinister
despair

for those who may be unfamiliar with nabokov's literary trajectory, the first two on my list were written in english in the u.s., but despair he wrote in russian in germany in 1932 and translated into english himself much later. i like this bypassing of a separate translator, which...
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my favorite foods:

green olives
dill pickles
nime chow
spinach
barbecue potato chips
chunky peanut butter


i love:

mindless repetitive tasks
getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist's (he always says i
picked good parents--little does he know i was found
under a cabbage leaf)
getting my back adjusted by the chiropractor
popping zits, boils, abscesses, etc.

X: i was sitting here and thinking that every room has windows and doors and lamps and couches, and that there's something i should figure out...

Qato: *growl* *snarl* *snort*

Y: why are you mad at X, Qato? 'cause you don't have weird tripped-out thoughts?

Qato: i DO have weird tripped-out thoughts. when i'm walking home drunk, i think, "wow, that house is purple".

Y:...
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my upstairs neighbor's car got stolen last night. right out of our driveway.

in charles darwin's journals from the voyage of the beagle, he describes various species of lizards he encounters on the galapagos. he observes one species digging its burrow, and remarks that rather than scratching alternately with its two forelegs, it scratches with the hind and foreleg from the SAME side, switching to the two legs on the opposite side when it tires.

quote of the day:

"we all know that lionesses are just as powerful as regular lions."
--pontificator on evolutionary biology

just saw tan de repente, a new argentinian film. i recommend it.

today my best friend euler told me he'd come up with a nifty little formula:

e^i*theta = cos(theta) + i*sin(theta)

i remain skeptical.

here ends the inaugural journal entry.