Tray # 14
iambarr | November 28, 2008
ho.ly.shit.
ray kurzweil is making a movie of “the singularity is near” and i’m going to squirm with fanboy adoration until it comes out. i remember thinking that about what the bleep, which turned out to be a film intro to a pyramid scheme for religious wackos. i’m fairly certain that this will be different.
and how [...]
iambarr | November 26, 2008
the apocalyptic revelation at the heart of the tragic has to do with a sense that no God or gods are looking down on the world to see that justice is done, or that, if there are gods, they are profoundly careless, indifferent, even sadistic.
iambarr | November 20, 2008
Chris Barr
ENG 230
Professor Carrol
11-20-8
Journal 10
Student: A
Today was a pretty interesting day at Portland West. For the first time, I had the opportunity to work with A one on one. I really like individual experiences because I can devote my attention to one person and have a more meaningful dialog. It allows time to work on [...]
iambarr | November 19, 2008
i want you to know something.
i want you to understand that i see bugs.
i see them in my sleep, but i see them while i’m awake.
i see so many things.
so many things that aren’t easily seen.
these things are not new to me, but also not known by me, there are secret things that hide behind [...]
iambarr | November 14, 2008
and the world is shifting around me. in a strange space, it seems. things are happening and not happening in configurations that i can’t sort out properly. i’ve been working non-stop for what feels like weeks and that tends to throw off my sense of time and linear proportion to an extent that, if i [...]
iambarr | November 10, 2008
Chris Barr
11-6-8
ENG 245
Professor Bertram
Gender Roles in the Sonnet Tradition:
An Analysis of Millay
Millay’s sonnet, “I Dreamed I moved through Elysian Fields”, is a moving poem about the speaker’s involvement in an erotic relationship and the similarity of that relationship to several prominent Greek myths. Her appropriation of the sonnet in order to reverse gender roles characterizes [...]
iambarr | November 10, 2008
Chris Barr
11-6-8
ENG 245
Professor Bertram
Gender Roles in the Sonnet Tradition:
An Analysis of Millay
Millay’s sonnet, “I Dreamed I moved through Elysian Fields”, is a moving poem about the speaker’s involvement in an erotic relationship and the similarity of that relationship to several prominent Greek myths. Her appropriation of the sonnet in order to reverse gender roles characterizes [...]
iambarr | November 8, 2008
even the word itself is expressively erotic.
i like that it begins with “o” because it foreshadows the sound that the inevitable climactic sensation it will bring. it’s appropriate that it begins with “or” because it reflects its own implicit choices.
but it’s the soft g that gives the word its squishy, lubricated sound that conjures the [...]
iambarr | November 8, 2008
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I had no intercourse with the world at that time and I imitated non of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Quite an [...]
iambarr | November 6, 2008
I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields
-Edna St Vincent Millay (1930)
I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields,
In converse with sweet women long since dead;
And out of blossoms which that meadow yields
I wove a garland for your living head.
Danae, that was the vessel for a day
Of golden Jove, I saw, and at her side,
Whom [...]
