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summercomfort) wrote2005-07-19 11:45 pm
summercomfort) wrote2005-07-19 11:45 pm
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By Joanne's recommendation, I finished The Things They Carried. It was a good book. I think I tend to like books that are hard to take apart, where the various details slip in and you forget where you learned this tidbit, so even though you have your favorite parts, you prefer to read the whole thing over again because it works better that way. At least, that's one type of book I like. Handmaid's Tale falls in this category as well. It's kinda interesting because in the book, everything feels so real, and yet about 3/4 of the way through he goes ahead and tells you that everything's made up, that no, he didn't kill a person, but he was there when they did, and so his felt complicit, and so in the heightened reality of the book he's the one who kills, because that's what he feels to be true. So yeah, a lot about storytelling, memory, perception of reality, etc, which makes me think of the Dream King. Reminds me of the stuff I used to write. I mean, I guess it's a basic property of writing fiction... you make stuff up and make it sound real. Or in this case, realer than real. It's similar in drawing, too, no? You're not only capturing, but enhancing, encapsulating, omitting some freckles or adding some dents to make the leg exude more legginess than the original leg. Of course, fantasy takes a different path. That's more like role-playing, using an alternate universe to bring out universal whatever-nots.
Or maybe it's just that it's been a while since I've read a first-person narrative.
Anyways, as many of you know, my life is highly cyclical, going through from apathetic slumps to gung ho plotting to mediocre carry-out. Within a day, the planning happens just before I go to bed, the slump happens after meals, and action in the late evening.
Within a week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays tend to be more eh.
Within a year, Winter is always eh, and Spring is always the best.
Anyways, I think finishing a book has made me shift out of the eh stage and into the "really, I plan on doing things!" stage. So I wrote a to-do list. Remind me to talk about my BA plottings in some other post.
Wondering if possible to gain access to Stanford libraries. Esp. the East Asian collection. (That's at the Hoover Institute, right?)
Or maybe it's just that it's been a while since I've read a first-person narrative.
Anyways, as many of you know, my life is highly cyclical, going through from apathetic slumps to gung ho plotting to mediocre carry-out. Within a day, the planning happens just before I go to bed, the slump happens after meals, and action in the late evening.
Within a week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays tend to be more eh.
Within a year, Winter is always eh, and Spring is always the best.
Anyways, I think finishing a book has made me shift out of the eh stage and into the "really, I plan on doing things!" stage. So I wrote a to-do list. Remind me to talk about my BA plottings in some other post.
Wondering if possible to gain access to Stanford libraries. Esp. the East Asian collection. (That's at the Hoover Institute, right?)
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*smirk*
pffffff
*busts out laughing*
^O^
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O_o
It's entirely too creepy that the survey's have 2 consequetive correlations to you, Sushu---when you were the one who introduced me to the magic money-making GSB surveys to begin with...
They mock my Sushulessness!
*shakes fist*
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