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I finally finished my essay on Vico and now have one more essay to finish before I enter dissertation phase of the course. The odd thing about this essay is, contrary to all the others, it's going really well. And the problem with that is I really can't be bothered: I know what my argument is, there's nothing to wrestle with. It's turned out to be an interesting project though, examining the argument that moral/ethical philosophy is best 'done' through literature rather than philosophy per se.

At the end of the day though, I just really need a break. I haven't really taken more than two days off in a row for the whole year and I'm really flagging. My head's just full of theories and I need to go and run around in a field for a bit just to return to normal. I was even playing frisbee the other day and, apart from fucking up my ankle, I started thinking about dog phenomenology.

After this course I'm going to need professional help.

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So, here's some stuff for y'all:

Some of my favourite opening lines of books. If you guys have got any that I need to read let me know.

"The only advice I can offer, should you wake up vertiginously in a strange flat, with thoroughly installed hangover, without any of your clothing, without any recollection of how you got there, with the police sledgehammering down the door to the accompaniment of excited dogs, while you are surrounded by bales of lavishly-produced magazines featuring children in adult acts, the only advice I can offer you is to try to be good-humoured and polite"
Tibor Fischer - The Thought Gang.

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know".
Albert Camus - The Outsider

"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."
Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

"We remain unknown to ourselves, we seekers after knowledge, even to ourselves: and with good reason."
Nietzsche - The Genealogy of Morals
(A contentious choice but for anyone familiar with his work, his inclusion in literature may not be completely amiss)

"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed into a monstrous insect."
Kafka - The Metamorphosis/ The Transformation

Its famous probably because its about as far as most people get with the book:
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed."
Joyce - Ulysses

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Some vids

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Katarina Fritsch:

It's a bit of a shame because you don't get much of a sense of the scale from these pics but they are huge











take care folks