3 hours remain.
Posted By iambarr on February 1, 2010
goodbye hannaford.
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2 days remain.
Posted By iambarr on January 29, 2010
there is a bit of a thrill, yes, along with a severe fuck of a chill at the weather and the world and the prospects for the future, taking a leap – a mental leap, a financial leap, and a leap of logic mixed with naivety, but mostly just caught in the wonderpuzzlementawe at the out-of-place where-do-i-go and what-do-i-do-now combined with a heavy dose of sweet-christ-what-is-my-place-in-the-wild-vortex-of-things-now-
interrobang.
big
motherfucking
interrobang.
and so i admit, i feel, i accept that there is finally a cusp (a favorite i’ve pretended to feel for so long) and there is actually a sincere sense of positive potential and open acceptance for whatever the hell might come my way.. but of rent and food and bills – i have six months of a future life paid and accounted for on torn pieces of graph paper in my head, on actual printed receipts, and strewn about as numbers in cells and imaginary boxes of nonexistent spreadsheets, and at the end of all the strings of partially formed equations just after the equals sign, there is a figure, a figure that, on the whole it has the smell of fried onions, so i guess i’ve just got to take that as a sign that these things are there to be accepted rejected embraced loved feared-
-and sweet jesuschrist, 5-hour energy comes in pomegranate now-
but the crazy disjointed feelings of elation and potential growth are dampened slightly by the feeling that things will never be the same, a feeling that always pokes me in my nostalgia nerve, so i can’t help but wonder after all if i’m doing the right thing (dampened slightly, i said – no going back, of course)..
these thoughts do not last..
(and neither did the ones before..)
so there is a new living space in which to grow and a new life cycle in which to define myself – all experiences and memories from here until sometime over there will be of an altogether new order, flavor, quality – one tinged with the foggy outlines of drastically altered perceptual cues.. the old days are falling away
but, wait – i’m getting off track
none of this is what i came here to say.
what i want to say, what i need to say is…
goodbye guardshack of solitude.
sweet barbed-wire sunsets, wish me luck~
obscure grammar question:
Posted By iambarr on January 9, 2010
pronouns
if two gods are speaking about themselves, they would use capitalized personal pronouns I and We and Us. right?
the imperative word “let’s” is a contraction of “let us.”
if spoken by gods, the phrase would be “let Us.” right?
so in it’s contracted form, would it be “Let’s?”
strangely, almost seems like it should be “let’S,” if anything..
a good day
Posted By iambarr on January 9, 2010
there are white castle burgers in the machine today.
say what you will about white castle.
say what you will about cheeseburgers in a vending machine.
i am impervious to your disapproval.
today is a good day.
You’d better watch out..
Posted By iambarr on December 18, 2009
One of these things..
Posted By iambarr on December 18, 2009
Describes my current situation:
1. Eloi, Eloi, Lema Sabachthani?
2. Father into your hands, i commend my spirit!
3. It is finished.
12:36. a draft.
Posted By iambarr on December 17, 2009
Intro:
Now that you know more about Conrad’s life, it’s important to place his life and his work in a larger social and historical context. My goal is to introduce the modernist movement and explain it’s relationship to the many other movements of the time.
-realism, romanticism, dadaism, lost generation
Definition of Modernism is elusive. Definitions are often circular, too vague, too narrow. More useful to outline the conventions, influences, and attitudes of the time that would later be calledthe Modernist Period.
Difficult to accurately pin Modernism to a specific time.
not modernism, but modernisms
-modernism vs high modernism (pre and post WWI)
-Frank Kermode’s paleo vs neo (pre and post WWI)
-modernism as a reaction to WWI
-modernism as beginning in 1910
Virginia Woolf:
“On or about December, 1910, human character changed”
this statement, written in 1924, was a modernist mantra for its time
-writing about the london scene as a modernist epicenter
-periodicals Blast, Vortex captured the energy of the time
Necessary to go back further in time to understand the age of modernism
Significant works in multiple disciplines:
1890 – Frazer’s “Golden Bough”
-first modernist mythology. viewed myth from a cultural perspective, not theological.
1900 – freud’s “interpretation of dreams”
-heavy emphasis on the unconscious and underlying motivation of human behavior
-stream of consciousness as a view into the subconscious
1905 – einstein’s “theory of relativity”
-turned objective, concrete physics completely around to reflect a more observer-oriented science
1912 Jung’s “psychology of the unconscious”
-again, an emphasis on the underlying thought process of human motivation
-inner consciousness over outer action
These groundbreaking revolutions of hard science and social science contributed to what would later be called the Modernist Movement, one branch of which is literary modernism.
Literary Modernism
Precedents:
Romanticism (1798-1832) – Reaction against restrain and universalism of the enlightenment. Rejected logic and reason as the highest ideals. Celebrated spontaneity, subjectivity, purity of nature.
-Blake, Shellley, Keats, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe
Victorianism – (1832-1901) – Emphasis of nationalism and absolutism. Humans over and above nature. Highlighted themes of Protestantism, patriarchy, and industrial sophistication.
-Dickens, Hardy, Kipling, Wilde
Realism (1830-1900) – Accurate, detailed portrayal of contemporary life
-Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Maupaussant, Tolstoy, Twain
Modernism as a reaction against these:
-emphasized humanism over nationalism
-argued for cultural relativism
-blurred dichotomies (civilized, savage)
-antiheroes or uncategorizable characters
-challenging the teleology of the world
-reflected a shift from objective view to subjective view
Conclusion:
All of these can be seen in Conrad’s works, especially in Heart of Darkness (1899) and Lord Jim (1900). These were written 11 years before Woolf’s comment, 15 years before WWI.
This makes Conrad is one of the first modernist writers. Writing at the tail end of realism and voctorianism, his work still contains some of these conventions, combined with a new modern perspective.
a mission:
Posted By iambarr on December 17, 2009
it is 11:05.
research, plan, and write notes for a 7 minute in-class presentation on literary modernism.
due at 13:30.
Considering.
Posted By iambarr on December 12, 2009
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
-Alfred North Whitehead