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iambarr | December 26, 2008
spend two minutes picturing the people closest to you crying. then another two minutes picturing them laughing. i promise, it’s a pretty fun game. but it produces drastically different effects in the reverse order.
iambarr | December 17, 2008
ho. ho. ho. i’m about to lose my shit. i’m afraid of everything that can happen in life. there is no sunshine. everything is going to be dark forever. help me, please.
iambarr | December 17, 2008
i want to watch a god die. i mean, physically. i really want to see it. crucifixion. discorporation. hanging. or even a good old burning at the stake. someone needs to pay. there needs to be bloodshed. the mortals have suffered long enough. it is time for a more divine justice. i find it hard [...]
iambarr | December 15, 2008
Throughout Great Expectations, the theme of haunting is presented by Dickens in several ways. By using motifs such as ghosts, death, and the uncanny, he carefully develops this theme in portraying Pip as a complicated sort of lost soul. Through his use of intertextual references to Hamlet, repeated inclusion of doubles, and complex connections between [...]
iambarr | December 14, 2008
we spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. we were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintances were in the same condition. there was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and [...]
iambarr | December 14, 2008
the japanese are a beautiful people whose thousands of years of elegant history have all been leading up to the invention a truly human-looking robot in order that they might teach it to have sex with octopi.
iambarr | December 11, 2008
“the paradigms of apocalypse continue to lie under our ways of making sense of the world. thus, for example, the great systems of western philosophy – such as christianity or marxism – make sense of the world by imagining a future in which the world is fundamentally different, in which our world has ended forever.”
iambarr | December 4, 2008
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is much the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of [...]
iambarr | December 3, 2008
iambarr | December 1, 2008
Doubles One of the most remarkable aspects of Dickens’s work is its structural intricacy and remarkable balance. Dickens’ plots involve complicated coincidences, extraordinarily tangled webs of human relationships, and highly dramatic developments in which setting, atmosphere, event, and character are all seamlessly fused. In Great Expectations, perhaps the most visible sign of Dickens’ commitment to [...]
