it's been raining a lot yesterday and today. last night was better -- lightning where the clouds light up and lots of thunder. today was more drippy. i'm going to the belmont stakes on saturday: anybody have any tips on horses? still trying to figure out dracula and how it fits into the literary scheme of things. i keep getting distracted by all of the white skin and crumbling stone buildings and unspoken sexual menace. i haven't felt like such a cure girl in a while.
grendel:
Do you ever find, as an English grad student, that trying to unearth the symbolism in books ever sort of sucks out their soul? Or do you think it just deepens your appreciation of them?
golightly:
well, there are some things i've written papers on thaat i don't care if i *never* read again. but mostly i think thinking about books deepens your relationship to them. and i work more on historical stuff, so it's not just "what does it mean?", more like "what did it mean then?"