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Parentheses - An interruption of continuity; an interval.
"This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for — the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing" (Margaret Atwood).
“For every period of time when you exist, short or long, there is a temporal part of you that exists only then. And for any temporal parts of any objects whatsoever, there is a larger object made up of just those parts.” - John Locke
"Every time I enunciate 'I', even in my thought, an identity is assumed, and this identity is itself not simple, but a figure of a complex gathering of personal and impersonal histories, texts, discourses, beliefs, cultural assumptions, and ideological interpellations...it is not an artifact but a process." - Richard Dyer
Friday, May 7, 2010
the weeks are getting harder to pull through, weekdays and weekends too. but im really beginning to like studying. to love learning, to love knowing more and more and more. i could sit in the library all day. the academic life of sifting through books and books to find words of gold is so... magnetic, infectious, attractive. the full blast of mental adrenaline that cannot stop, that wills you to go on, to keep formulating ideas, making connections. even at 2am. in an odd manner, issues grow on you and a part of you grows on them, making them uniquely your own. is this what people call imagination?
i am very fascinated by the chapter of Deuteronomy in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. i am glad to be able to do more research on it for my part of the presentation in lit class. i must thank Winterson for injecting new zest in me for lit. Proof was kind of unsatisfying for me. here is an excerpt from the section of Deuteronomy that i find very fascinating:
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So the past, because it is past, is only malleable where once it was flexible. Once it could change its mind, now it can only undergo change. The lens can be tinted, tilted, smashed. What matters is that order is seen to prevail... and if we are eighteenth-century gentlemen, drawing down the blinds as our coach jumbles over the Alps, we have to know what we are doing, pretending an order that doesn't exist, to make a security that cannot exist.
There is an order and a balance to be found in stories.
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i am very fascinated by the chapter of Deuteronomy in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. i am glad to be able to do more research on it for my part of the presentation in lit class. i must thank Winterson for injecting new zest in me for lit. Proof was kind of unsatisfying for me. here is an excerpt from the section of Deuteronomy that i find very fascinating:
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So the past, because it is past, is only malleable where once it was flexible. Once it could change its mind, now it can only undergo change. The lens can be tinted, tilted, smashed. What matters is that order is seen to prevail... and if we are eighteenth-century gentlemen, drawing down the blinds as our coach jumbles over the Alps, we have to know what we are doing, pretending an order that doesn't exist, to make a security that cannot exist.
There is an order and a balance to be found in stories.
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