Today a young lady whom I met at a conference in June, and to whom I spoke for only a matter of minutes, but with whom I have since been carrying on an intense correspondence by way of lengthy, frequent and flirtatious e-mails while she has been travelling around France with her husband and I have been travelling around Britain with myself, this woman, who in our correspondence has variously referred to me as 'sunshine', as her 'muse', and as 'too young and gorgeous to attend a singles party' ( 
) today wrote to invite me to collaborate with her on the translation, adaptation and updation (this is a word I have invented) of a medieval French epistolary love poem with 'suggestive emails in place of the letters. And perhaps substitute the courtly-love ideal with the more 21st-century one of open marriage...'
I am still not really sure what all this means, but she is coming to my house-warming party on saturday, so perhaps I'll find out...
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'the subject designates that virtual point in which reflection itself is relfected back into "reality" - in which, for example, (my perception of) the possible future outcome of my present acts determines what I will do now. What we call "subjectivity" is at its most elementary this self-referential "short circuit" which ultimately invalidates every prognosis in intersubjective relations: the prognosis itself, as soon as it is uttered, bears upon the predicted outcome, and it is never able to take into account this effect of its own act of enunciation.'
- Slavoj Zizek, For they know not what they do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Verso, 1991)
) today wrote to invite me to collaborate with her on the translation, adaptation and updation (this is a word I have invented) of a medieval French epistolary love poem with 'suggestive emails in place of the letters. And perhaps substitute the courtly-love ideal with the more 21st-century one of open marriage...'
I am still not really sure what all this means, but she is coming to my house-warming party on saturday, so perhaps I'll find out...
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'the subject designates that virtual point in which reflection itself is relfected back into "reality" - in which, for example, (my perception of) the possible future outcome of my present acts determines what I will do now. What we call "subjectivity" is at its most elementary this self-referential "short circuit" which ultimately invalidates every prognosis in intersubjective relations: the prognosis itself, as soon as it is uttered, bears upon the predicted outcome, and it is never able to take into account this effect of its own act of enunciation.'
- Slavoj Zizek, For they know not what they do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Verso, 1991)
once again i'm forced to dial my reading comprehension skills up to a 9 on the scale. Good to have ya back man!
You know with a kitty, all you need to do is get 'em fixed, then their shots and they're good for a year until the next shot. Food and litter=no big whoop. I am a slob and I manage to do it. See once you get one that's it, it's over. I can't remember the last time I ate tuna but the kids sure remember their last helping!