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Stoatie - yayy.
Deva, creator of the Happy thread finds evil women who belittle generous, hardworking men quite happy-making indeed. Boo!
I find it so weird that I am the only person I know who sides with that woman. I just... I don't really believe in the generous, hard-working man, I suppose. Really, dohow can you identify/sympathize with anyone that smug-faced and smooth who says, in answer to "What's for tea, then?" I'm creating a delicious sizzling blend of aromatic spices! (instead of, let's face it, "Sorry, love, I'm just chucking some packet mix over a stir-fry because I can't be arsed to cook tonight, I've had a shocker of a day")
Getting over thesis-performance-anxiety by going through all my footnotes very slowly and flinging books all over the place makes me feel learned. On my 'desk' (actually the edge of my bed, I have work space issues) are currently:
John Henderson, Fighting for Rome: Poets, Caesars and Civil War; Loeb edition of Lucan's De Bello Civile; Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political; Derrida, Of Grammatology; Tom Holland's Rubicon; Michel Serres, Rome: The Book of Foundations; Walter Benjamin's One Way Street and Illuminations; Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Tomorrow's Eve; Philip K Dick's Valis; The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory; The Oxford HIstory of the Classical World; Hallett and Skinner's Roman Sexualities; Jamie Master's Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile; Fitzgerald's Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination; Hardie's Cosmos and Imperium in Vergil's Aeneid; Roland Barthes Roland Barthes, Penny Small's Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity; Kittler's Discourse Networks 1800/1900; Derrida, Archive Fever, The Post Card and L'ecriture et la difference (ooh yeah, in French); Ronell's The Telephone Book and Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics.
Contemplating that list makes me feel like someone who deserves a PhD, which is about as happy as I get atm. |
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