tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.comments2023-06-12T11:31:14.038-04:00Armored Assaults on Hot Fudge SundaesFionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488361241256661262noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-52785350905610605752010-02-15T03:53:58.487-05:002010-02-15T03:53:58.487-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.オテモヤンhttp://e-nixi.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-40370832418878685272009-11-20T19:40:09.357-05:002009-11-20T19:40:09.357-05:00Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? ...Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? <br />Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-31724214145840759692009-11-15T05:10:28.490-05:002009-11-15T05:10:28.490-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.maybehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298405063396051450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-18896045346071813472009-04-06T15:18:00.000-04:002009-04-06T15:18:00.000-04:00Heh. I'm glad you got around to making this post. ...Heh. I'm glad you got around to making this post. I saw the article yesterday and it was a little bit unspeakably silly.<BR/><BR/>Not to mention hilariously tone deaf.<BR/><BR/>MY PRIVILEGED EXISTENCE IS SOOOO HARD. I WILL WRITE ABOUT IT AND THE NYT WILL PAY ME MONEY TO DO SO.SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234756490699073828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-6951071268657874382009-03-30T15:44:00.000-04:002009-03-30T15:44:00.000-04:00I'd be interested in reading chronicles of your hi...I'd be interested in reading chronicles of your higher education enrollment! It'd definitely help the whole process seem a whole lot less scary for me, when my turn rolls around.julikinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06558400401741725727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-71400605380129349132009-03-30T11:32:00.000-04:002009-03-30T11:32:00.000-04:00But weren't many of Madoff's victims friends of hi...But weren't many of Madoff's victims friends of his? That does, in fact, put him in the ninth circle.SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234756490699073828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-55973315178898968462009-03-24T22:39:00.000-04:002009-03-24T22:39:00.000-04:00Well some people quit their jobs to prepare for me...Well some people quit their jobs to prepare for medical school, too. That is a silly idea. You are brilliant, and, moreover, you have real talent and a genuine ability at academics. You don't need to freak out, because hard work from you is better by far than anything money or time spent can buy.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988172431327505411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-19991074606893452892009-03-21T06:58:00.000-04:002009-03-21T06:58:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-33210547560269269702009-03-14T03:01:00.000-04:002009-03-14T03:01:00.000-04:00Milton seems like the ultimate form of this tenden...Milton seems like the ultimate form of this tendency. His project is so goddamn ambitious -- to explain the entire universe in a poem -- that he really tries to fit in every piece of his massive education into the thing.<BR/><BR/>What's interesting about the Alexandria connection is this idea that the Alexandrian poets wrote such hyper-referential poetry, not just because they were the first generation of poets to write supported with the resources of a library, but also because they were overcompensating for the anxiety produced the sense that the Golden Age was over.<BR/><BR/>What's Milton's excuse? He was a bit of a classicist, but surely he was not anxious about the value of his own work? Why throw in the kitchen sink?<BR/><BR/>I also like the idea that if you have grown up surrounded by books, you are experiencing bits of culture divorced from their geographic and cultural contexts -- it used to be that you would only know about a given dialect or ritual or lake if you physically traveled there, but books bring the world to you. <BR/><BR/>But maybe it's also a consequence of the epic form -- epic is sort of designed to be all-encompassing, isn't it?Leigh Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00964802750317393614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-30730500003723130342009-03-14T02:44:00.000-04:002009-03-14T02:44:00.000-04:00I'm just going to keep inventing reasons to post e...I'm just going to keep inventing reasons to post excerpts of my thesis.<BR/><BR/>[The author I translated in my thesis, Callimachus, was born in northern Africa soon after the death of Alexander, who had united the whole Mediterranean region into a single Greek-speaking community. Then he went to work at the Library of Alexandra, where he joined a community of scholars called the Museum.]<BR/><BR/>In fact, a passion for the poetry of the ancients was a common feature of the Alexandrian scholastic community, and not by coincidence. Peter Bing, building on the insights of Rudolf Pfeiffer, has written on the nature of the Alexandrians’ anxieties and complexities of self-perception. Living as Greeks outside of Greece, recruited by a fabulously wealthy king to live in an artificial city, the scholars of the Museum were painfully aware of their distance from the golden age of Greek civilization — a distance which Bing calls "the gulf" (Bing 64). In response to this anxiety, the Hellenistics "created a kind of microcosm of Greece on Egyptian soil," specifically via the collection, study, and care of Greek literature (Bing 14). By declaring themselves the custodians of the written word, the Alexandrian community created a stable connection back to the Greek past.<BR/><BR/>For many of the Alexandrians, it was not sufficient merely to preserve and edit old texts, but new texts had to be composed, informed by study of the literary past: <BR/><BR/>Poetry had to be rescued from the dangerous situation in which it lay, and the writing of poetry had to become a particularly serious work of discipline and wide knowledge. The new writers had to look back to the old masters . . . not to emulate them — this was regarded as impossible or at least as undesirable — but in order to be trained like them in their own new poetical technique. (Pfeiffer History 88) <BR/><BR/>As a result, Hellenistic poetry shows a distinct tension between the urge to celebrate the past and the urge to innovate — to discover what new kinds of literature one can produce when surrounded by books. <BR/><BR/>The scholar-poets of Alexandria, or in Bing’s phrase, "the Hellenistic avant garde," were the first Greeks to acknowledge the central role of literacy in their poetic identity (Bing 54). They soon developed "modern, self-consciously literate poetic conventions," in which traditional poetic conceits were questioned and the boundaries between reality and artificiality were tested (Bing 11). Among these tests was "the deliberate and novel conflation of elements from separate genres," such as a dialect abnormal for its meter or a meter abnormal for its content (Hutchinson 15). Like Pound and the Modernists 2200 years later, Callimachus and the Hellenistics felt that old categories were no longer valid, and they grew skeptical of the traditional view of poetry as a holistic and epichoric art. They began to blend and cross-reference different traditions, filling their poems with quotations, allusions, and obscure words from a huge variety of sources: "One is always left with the impression . . . that the Alexandrian poets wrote with their ‘glossai’ [glossaries] close at hand" (Bing 54). <BR/><BR/>Considering that "the real world for such a scholar or poet was largely the world of books . . . distinctions that had previously held true when the outside world was primary are here no longer valid. Regional boundaries, for instance, can now be stressed, now ignored. A person or place can exist wherever one finds it in a book" (Bing 37).Leigh Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00964802750317393614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-36663493533385574622009-03-12T16:45:00.000-04:002009-03-12T16:45:00.000-04:00I think it is okay to be Melvin on the Iditarod as...I think it is okay to be Melvin on the Iditarod as long as there is only one other sled dog and it keeps falling asleep and getting distracted and having tiny dance parties and generally impeding the sled.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488361241256661262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-87027589071764923292009-03-10T17:37:00.000-04:002009-03-10T17:37:00.000-04:00I could hire you as a private teacher for our theo...I could hire you as a private teacher for our theoretical children! They will be so fucking educated. They will become mad scientists and stuff.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988172431327505411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-18804026570411381972009-03-10T12:27:00.000-04:002009-03-10T12:27:00.000-04:00I... um...I'll get back to you on that.I... um...<BR/><BR/>I'll get back to you on that.SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234756490699073828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-85894314474887659772009-03-09T15:32:00.000-04:002009-03-09T15:32:00.000-04:00What do you want to do after grad school? Do you w...What do you want to do after grad school? Do you want to become a professor?julikinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06558400401741725727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-36990274057270707772009-03-06T14:54:00.000-05:002009-03-06T14:54:00.000-05:00THAT IS SO CLEVER. I used to wonder about that al...THAT IS SO CLEVER. I used to wonder about that all the time. Like, honor suicides in japan --- seventh circle, or not seventh circle? thanks, fiona and dante, for the clarification! <BR/>:Dannemariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09085508754736560280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-25754217453331553072009-03-03T13:38:00.000-05:002009-03-03T13:38:00.000-05:00Heh, also, remember all the bits where he talks ab...Heh, also, remember all the bits where he talks about the Constellations? Turns out his almanac or whatever was wrong for two of the Zodiac signs (the book calculated Libra and one other one for 1301, not for 1300) and so his long descriptions of the fish and the scales are WRONG ALL WRONG.<BR/><BR/>Also boring.<BR/><BR/>And wrong.<BR/><BR/>Dante loses.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488361241256661262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-36885919699146578062009-02-23T17:00:00.000-05:002009-02-23T17:00:00.000-05:00A lawyer friend reports that his company (internat...A lawyer friend reports that his company (international, big name, high profile) is downsizing i.e. firing 15% of staff this year. When the times are so bad that people can't even afford to sue each other, there is no frying pan any more. Which is actually an advantage, because it removes the temptation to ignore your dreams and go for "job security."<BR/><BR/>Choose a direction that pleases you, and start walking. Well, I guess you've done that, so the line should be "Ignore professional doom-mongers and follow your desires."<BR/><BR/>$0.02Udgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949287559886228889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-87171022571340606662009-02-22T13:44:00.000-05:002009-02-22T13:44:00.000-05:00Hello Serena, hello Fiona, I just noticed that you...Hello Serena, hello Fiona, I just noticed that you are following my blog, which led me back to yours. Nice work, quite amusing and interesting. I'll be back!Udgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949287559886228889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-53984976675267828722009-02-20T16:39:00.000-05:002009-02-20T16:39:00.000-05:00He's in the one for compound inconsistencies.He's in the one for compound inconsistencies.SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234756490699073828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-36250252819140140612009-02-13T17:41:00.000-05:002009-02-13T17:41:00.000-05:00I did well on the GRE purely by taking practice ma...I did well on the GRE purely by taking practice math tests over and over and over - I devoted 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. They also say to study the vocab list, but I bet you'll need one study session to brush up and be off with flying colors.<BR/><BR/>The writing section, on the other hand, was COMPLETELY STUPID AND TOTALLY ARBITRARY. I did "average," but felt that there was no way to study for it without the direct feedback of the readers (impossible), because it is entirely up to their personal taste to score you. Yargh.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05658363139326175065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-82236259451920113852009-02-12T09:43:00.000-05:002009-02-12T09:43:00.000-05:00I think "assaults" is a more evocative word than "...I think "assaults" is a more evocative word than "attacks".<BR/><BR/>This post (and the column linked to) offer some new insight while prodding at a topic I've thought about a few times. Or maybe less insight than a feeling of unresolved communication. <BR/><BR/>If you ever manage to try answering "so what?" let me know.anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324828987699178581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-3999696588660173232009-02-10T11:44:00.000-05:002009-02-10T11:44:00.000-05:00Don't worry! It's way easier than the SAT, I promi...Don't worry! It's way easier than the SAT, I promise.Flourishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00646360351256471192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-56824502436121151062009-02-09T19:22:00.000-05:002009-02-09T19:22:00.000-05:00man, fuck Ulysses. i have hated him since we had ...man, fuck Ulysses. i have hated him since we had to read the Odyssey in freshman English and he's just this asshole who fucks around on his wife a lot and like, fucks everything else up when he tries to get home. like maybe don't leave your bag of magical wind lying around where curious crew members can open it...or even be like, dudes, it's not gold, don't open that bag, it will be bad. <BR/><BR/>the best part about reading the odyssey was i got to dress up as Calypso and made a brochure for a brothel in the Greek islands. i've always been a sucker for whores.<BR/><BR/>oh man, i crack myself up.Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228760629009456295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-89925729094904582722009-02-04T19:19:00.000-05:002009-02-04T19:19:00.000-05:00I wonder if they had to carry the rooster naked? T...I wonder if they had to carry the rooster naked? That sounds like it might hurt. What with the claws. <BR/><BR/>Also, can we have an Animal Scramble?David Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08357058565577738252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-43139265812976925102009-02-03T14:53:00.000-05:002009-02-03T14:53:00.000-05:00(Hollander, n. XV.121-124)"In the actual race run ...(Hollander, n. XV.121-124)<BR/>"In the actual race run outside Verona, the runner run naked, according to the early commentators; the winner received a piece of green cloth, while the one who finished last was given a rooster, which he had to carry back into the city with him as a sign of his disgrace and a cause of derisive taunts on the part of his townsmen."<BR/><BR/>So I guess this comment has no point except:<BR/>1. Ow, running naked.<BR/>2. I guess the rooster was cause for scorn, but I think I'd rather have a rooster than green cloth unless it was really pretty and there was enough of it to make a shirt.<BR/>3. But you could eat a rooster and I am hungry. <BR/>4. I'm gonna go have some more cake. <BR/>5. Italy is/was very strange. <BR/>6. Can we go to a rodeo?Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488361241256661262noreply@blogger.com