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November 12th, 2004
02:30 pm
I was careless, and now I fear my brother may have discovered this. What clue can I give to my new username that everyone but him will get?
P.S. Hi Kirron.
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November 11th, 2004
05:58 pm
Interesting: "Physicists tell us that the rainbow is a simple continuum of wavelength. It is biology and/or psychology, not physics, that singles out particular landmark wavelengths along the physical spectrum for naming. Blue has a name. Green has a name. Blue-green does not. The interesting finding of anthropologists' experiments is that there is substantial agreement over such namings across different cultures. We seem to have the same kind of agreement over judgements of race. It may prove to be even stronger and clearer than for the rainbow."
Yet: "the human species today is, to a geneticist, especially uniform." ( A momentary, troubling confusion - brought about by the discovery of Homo floresiensis, Sunday's showing of Rabbit Proof Fence, some questionable anthropomorphising of Dorset chimpanzees, and the insidious suggestions of a grandmother who remains a product of her era - allayed. )
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I debated trying for a more modest score, playing Scrabble with my grandfather today. Should I have? Instead all I did was skitter around his weak blue eyes, add his tiles with my brightest voice. It is not so much a tumour on his spleen as a spleen on his tumour, these days.
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Pygmy elephants a mere 3ft high could be found in Sicily around the time of Christ. I think mentioning this should be my new party trick.
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October 29th, 2004
03:15 pm
Strange, having no desire - even a reluctance - for human companionship.
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Notes
"As I saw it, the specter of the uncool was creating a subtle tyranny for my students. It’s apparently an easy standard to subscribe to, the standard of cool, but once committed to it, you discover that matters are different. You’re inhibited, except on ordained occasions, from showing feeling, stifled from trying to achieve anything original. Apparent expression of exuberance now seem to occur with dimming quotation marks around them. Kids celebrating at a football game ironically play the roles of kids celebrating at a football game, as it’s been scripted on multiple TV shows and ads. There’s always self-observation, no real letting-go. Students apparently feel that even the slightest departure from the reigning code can get you genially ostracized. This is a culture tensely committed to a laid-back norm" (Edmundson, Mark. Why Read? Bloomsbury USA, 2004).
"Capitalism depends on an idea of counterculture to peddle new styles to rather ordinary people. But we’re all rebels now" (Dutton, Denis. Arts & Letters Daily. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 29 October 2004 <http://aldaily.com/>).
A novel by Henry James, H.G. Wells wrote, is "a magnificent but painful hippopotamus resolved at any cost . . . upon picking up a pea."
"our planet belongs to the future as well as the present; no single species or generation can claim it as its own" (The Australian Greens, principle 1.1.2)
"I'd suggest that, pretty soon, the demand for cultural equilibrium will kick in and techno-faddism will fade. The internet is beginning to give off the odour of the uncool. It was once hyped as a freedom machine; a worldwide web of inter-connectivity. The web was to be the harbinger of democracy in places such as pre-Tiananmen China. It is now the bearer of the decapitation cam, the preferred mode of communication among terrorists, the glue that keeps pedophile rings together and a cavernous electronic shopping mall. The internet is a cultural drain; a sewer" (Slattery, Luke. "Reined in by technology." The Weekend Australian 16-17 October 2004: Review).
"Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm," Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter. "Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words."
And finally! Someone who reads like me:
"At one point, wandering through Derrida's library, one of the filmmakers asks him: 'Have you read all the books in here?'
'No,' he replies impishly, 'only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully'" ("Deconstruction icon Derrida dies." BBC NEWS: World: Europe. Updated 9 October 2004. Retrieved 29 October 2004
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3729844.stm>).
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October 8th, 2004
06:23 am
hands the size of baseball mitts
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July 8th, 2004
04:54 am
The handle on the basket holding all my eggs has broken.
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May 24th, 2004
03:58 am
3:58am, typing "sustenance" into search engines, added a dead boy to my Yahoo! friend list
the fine red nets night casts across my eyeballs, the backs of my hands like elephant hides
Is it a bad idea to mark the calendar for every day suicide occurs to me?
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March 31st, 2004
04:13 am
telling myself I'm allowed a voice
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