February 2012
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“Leon once told me that what we hold in our heart is what matters.
The heart...”
– from Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng [p. 190-191]
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Anonymous asked: the philosophy library is one of my favorite places to hide from the outside world (though i'm a cs/math major). to just peruse the shelves, to chance upon plato's euthyphro, and to curl up in one of those red chairs. the silence is deafening~
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Turning (21st Century Women)
I am sorry
That in the twenty-first century,
You keep your distance if I turn
My back on you,
Because I am a woman,
And I might yell fire.
I am sorry that
In the twenty-first century
With a single look
You give me my space and sit a little further away
Because I might mistake your intentions,
Yelling fire.
Twenty-first century women say,
I am sorry
That you find it okay, anyways,
To...
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I want to write in a way that is earnest, but also...
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Anonymous asked: Do you blog for other sources? Magazines? Academic or Entertainment Blogs? Would you like to, just to get your name out there or perhaps for the sake of experience? : )
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Writing, Again.
When writing my papers I am trying to remember that “complication” is not always better.
Being fancy & artful with your words is great, but it actually shouldn’t be done unless you are extremely confident in the topic you are writing about and what you want to say.
I’m thinking back to some of the sample essays that we were allowed to read (all that received...
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“But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious...”
– Anna Wulf (writing in her blue notebook) from The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing [p. 521]
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Being on campus for five (sometimes more) hours a day almost five days a week is actually getting tiring.
I have a bunch of annoying gaps in my schedule, so even though I have less hours of class than last semester, it almost feels like more. None of my classes are back to back, so I’m always running around to make pit-stops, etc.
…Every day I visit my favorite library, where I can...
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“I closed my eyes and imagined how, if I had my way, I’d…spend my...”
– from The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy [p. 70-71]
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“I never really believe it when someone says that I’m a good writer. God...”
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“So long as rivers run to the sea, so long as shadows
travel the mountain slopes...”
– Aeneas to Dido, from The Aeneid by Virgil [Book 1]
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“On the good writing days, you feel like anything and everything can happen. When...”
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Anonymous asked: Hey!! Is it realistic (gpa and workload wise) to take the entire 45 sequence in one semester?? What would a 45 veteran consider a realistic load for an English major??
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Anonymous asked: so which English classes are you taking this semester?? Are you taking anything besides English?? How do you like your class??
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“Literature is analysis after the event.
[But]…the physical quality of...”
– Anna, writing about Ella & Paul in her yellow notebook, from The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing [p. 216-217]
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: Why I Left Dartmouth →
chelseaclintoninouterspace:
If you haven’t figured it out already, then I might as well tell you — I’ve decided to take an extended leave of absence from college. As one of my favorite teachers said to me shortly before I left, “Dartmouth is a tough school, not academically, but in a bad, social sense. While many students…
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http://falenburg.wordpress.com/ →
Instead of posting large chunks of text on my Tumblr, I am “outsourcing” all of my annoying academic musings to a WordPress blog.
I invite you all to comment, peruse, and enjoy its contents.
…Or not, because blocks of text seem to be so much less interesting than quick quotes and images these days.
January 2012
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smallthingsbeautiful asked: stumbled on your blog while looking for quotes to share with my tenth grade class. you've created something incredibly beautiful. i hope you don't mind but I'm steeling some of your own stolen goods for the blog I'm sharing with my class. love it all! keep posting!
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“And so their spirits soared
as they took positions down the passageways of...”
– The Iliad by Homer (as translated by Robert Fagles) Lines 638-647
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“…And that is why it is difficult for me to believe in love, or ambition,...”
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“She had a lot to learn, in the way of books and music and how to dress and talk,...”
– Bendrix on Sylvia Black, from The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene [p. 125]
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“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters...”
– Leon Bloy
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“What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with...”
– Bendrix, from The End of the Affair by Graham Greene [p. 6]
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A Portrait of the Artist
Just finished reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was my goal to finish this novel over Winter Break as a sort of prequel / training wheels in anticipation for Ulysses, which I will probably be tackling this semester.
…definitely an extremely dense and heavy novel full of Joyce’s characteristic usage of “epiphanies.” The style of...
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“The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close...”
– from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [p. 252]
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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in...”
– Stephen Dedalus, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [p. 247]
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“He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom...”
– from The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [p. 162, 170, 172]
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“Sometimes, though, I dream of good things. I dream that my son will grow up to...”
– from The Kite Runner [Graphic Novel] by Khaled Hosseini [p. 100]
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