nature is ancient

[starfrosting]

She sneaks up from behind/Come on, you deserve it!



"By writing about the bathhouse, Delany seeks not, he says, to 'romanticize that time into some cornucopia of sexual plenty,' but rather to break an 'absolutely sanctioned public silence' on questions of sexual practice, to reveal something that existed but had been suppressed. The point of Delany's description, indeed of his entire book, is to document the existence of those institutions in all their variety and multiplicity, to write about and thus to render historical what has hitherto been hidden from history. A metaphor of visibility as literal transparency is crucial to his project." (joan scott, 'experience')

I don't feel like tagging but please know I'm thinking of you and would like to know what books you're by.

Whoa, I'm done with my thesis! It's due the day after tomorrow. I need to write a paper on Arendt. I'm exhausted from staying up late last night at a debaucherous and very gay frat party. Hungry. Kind of incoherent, but filled with energy from the shifting light, blue skies all day thick clouds and now the slow slide of twilight. (And a beautiful hawk, cream-colored underbelly, swooping by me while I speeded up on the Taconic. Mmm, spring!)

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CONGRATULATIONS!

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

:^)

"'And even now, running my own department, it hasn't been easy to sneak in a rescue job that wasn't in the budget.'
'Since when does that matter?'
'New company policy.'"

That makes it sound so boring. But she's talking about recuing her fellow dybbuk from a tree where she'd been stuck (by a rabbi, who'd exorcised her from a cursed woman) for hundreds of years by hitting it with a bolt of lightning. (The Dyke and the Dybbuk, Ellen Galford)

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

thanks Ren love!
And um, that book sounds amazing.

I'm exhausted and booked tonight (Matt's birthday dinner) but can we talk tomorrow? <3

[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

Sure! Call me anytime tomorrow. I'm freeee. I mean, I'm not working. But I will be doing productive things, like looking for a job! . . . but feel free to interrupt!!

[wnb.livejournal.com]

"I felt supported and ready to embark on a miraculous journey. Some of us do this entirely alone, without social support or dialogue with anyone. Sometimes other people are more of a hindrance than a help." (Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man)

Definitely not the 3 most eloquent sentences in the entire book... though parts of it are quite interesting.

and congrats on finishing the thesis!

Go, thesis, go!

[cactus_rs]

"But the most difficult, no doubt, was the language. The common, official language within the vast Worldstate had, unfortunately, not as yet become the universal conversational language. In many places dialects were still in use, entirely unlike each other." (Karin Boye, Kallocain)

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

what is yr book about?

[cactus_rs]

Standard dystopian 1984/Brave New World future novel. Required reading for Swedish lit class, and also pretty good.

[maniack.livejournal.com]

"Still, it was galling, this having to admit she was afraid. And when she remembered the toad, she felt even more disheartened. What if the toad should be out by the fence again today?"

--Natalie Babbit, Tuck Everlasting

I'm staying in the childhood bedroom (or so it appears) of the sibling of a Vassar student I don't really know outside DC tonight. The fact that this was the closest book, and also one that I love, has tickled me tremendously.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Wow, what an entirely random sleeping situation! I have a copy of that book that I 'borrowed' when I was little and never got back to the school.

Also, Kelsey, I would like to see you. I saw two Indigo Girls shows this weekend w/my bf and it made me realize this even more. I'm hardly ever here on weekends but we should try to work something out.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

oh wait, it was the search for delicious. but I think I read that tuck book too.

[maniack.livejournal.com]

They are both mad good. I love great children's lit, it made such a huge impact on my childhood.

I would really like to see you too. I have a big ol senior project due date next Mon, but after that would be great.

[k-navit.livejournal.com]

Wooh -- congrats on the thesis!

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

thank you! I think I won't fully have a sense of accomplishment til I get it back w/comments though, you know? it still seems kind of open and gaping.

Felicitations!

[agoraphiliac.livejournal.com]

"Dondog ne bougeait pas et, en fait, ils paraissaient tous les deux assez à leur aise dans ce décor noir, comme s'ils s'appartennait aux ténèbres depuis des années, depuis toujours.

--L'essentiel pour moi est que je puisse lui demander son aide avant ma mort, dit Dondog.

--Rendez-vous à Parkview Lane, dit la vielle." Dondog, by Antoine Volodine.

Amazing.

[eliding.livejournal.com]

Connngratulations, Oli!

"'Why can't I sit in his lap? Why can't we touch? Why not?'"

Live From Death Row, Mumia Abu-Jamal

He's describing what his daughter was saying in her response to seeing him in prison for the first time. She had been a baby when he went to jail, and had never been taken to see him before. When you're on death row (and also in many prisons otherwise), they have only no-contact visitations with thick glass between you. His daughter came into the room smiling to see him, and then got this terrible look of sadness and anger on her face and started banging against the plexiglass screaming "Break it! Break it!"

[triggereflex.livejournal.com]

holy crap done with your thesis before its due and awaiting comments thats fucking hot shit. rock on. I will be back in the northeast in mid may. I hope we can see each other/drink whiskey together sometime soon.

"these biological contigencies of the human family cannot be covered over with anthropological sophistries. anyone observing animals mating, reproducing, and caring for their young will have a hard time accepting the 'cultural relativity' line. for no matter how many trines in oceania you can find where the comnnection of the father to fertility is not known, no matter how many matrilineages, no matter how many cases of sex-role reverals, male housewifery, or even empathic labor pains, these facts prove only one thing: the amazing flexibility of human nature" (shalumith firestone, in the second wave)

[jaclyn-lee.livejournal.com]

"We started to get on the radio to get a medevac helicopter, but we are in the middle of Nasiriya and where are we going to land one of these? So Doc stayed back, and I ran back out onto the street and found out that the company XO, Lieutenant Mathew Martin, had set up a casualty house. They had cleared the bottom portion of a building in what we call 'hasty clear' and made a place to put the casualties."

What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It

[el-convenio.livejournal.com]

"It quickly became clear that there were definitely two camps within the leage: the Nice girls and the Mean girls. The Nice girls were smart, friendly, accomplished. They knew how to have a good time, but they also had functioning telephones, permanent residences, jobs with paychecks at regular intervals." Rollergirl by Melicious

Congratulations!

[starling3rd.livejournal.com]

We so need to talk. I totally dropped the ball.


"At the opening of the 1992 Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Whitney Museum last fall, I wandered through the crowd talking to the folks about the art. I had just one question. It was about emotional responses to the work."

bell hooks, Outlaw Culture