I just ran into this, and I thought it was excellent.

In fact, these kinds of experiences within the black community led Dubois to perceive the nature of the shared but fractured Soul of Blacks/Whites in America as well as the double consciousness of the Black Soul. Dubois is quoted by Long: "A Double consciouness … this sense of always looking ( Read more... )

I just had this thought about a Life on Mars fic which linked all of Gene's female-name nicknames for Sam to archetypal female characters in stories which feature a sudden upsetting of one's environment and expcectations; Dorothy for Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, Alice for Alice in Wonderland, probably branching off to Meg from A Wrinkle In Time and ( Read more... )

So, half a decade ago, in Forensics at East High, I ran across a poem that I absolutely adored. I mean, I would have worshipped this poem if I had a sense of literature-as-pantheism at the time. This poem was called Joseph Brodsky is Dead, and began "It moves no snow across the New York streets this thought, another failed heart"... and, ( Read more... )

"Мистер и миссис Дурсль проживали в доме номер четыре по Тисовой улице и всегда с гордостью заявляли, что они, слава богу, абсолютно нормальные люди."

"Mister and Misses Durcel lived in House Number Four along Tisovoy Street and always delcared with pride that they, glory to God, were absolutely normal people."

It's like five times funnier in ( Read more... )

Ах! Я забыла говорить: вчера я получила книгу «Гарри Поттер и Философский Камень»! Так красива книга! Я скоро буду читать.

So, I'm sure silentbreathing and rionaleonhart will be pleased to know that I've finally just said "Screw it" and ordered «Гарри Поттер и Философский Камень». Years ago I couldn't get through it in English; let's see if the allure of pretty pretty Cyrillic letters will keep me engaged this time.

One of the things most vital and damaging to an author is the reading of excellent works by other people.

Discuss.

I got a package last week! More accurately, I got a "Come to the post office and get your package" slip last week, and, being me, it took until today for me to actually go down and get it. And it turned out to be a quarter a package from thebaconfat! Including an elegant set of chopsticks and placemats (which, combined with the Chinese cookbook thesqueemu got me, ( Read more... )

I may make a longer post on this at some point, but I probably won't.

ursulav has drawn an image that sums up one of my life experiences pretty well, I think. (Go on. Look at it. You know you want to.) And it's one of those things that... well, yeah. Especiall in the groups I move in, I hear a lot about how bad Lackey's novels are and how you should ( Read more... )

Had a bad time yesterday. All the stress in my life got pent up and shaken and then burst out in a froth of lightheadedness like carbonated whathaveyou, and rolled over me and submerged me and I woke up staring at the ceiling in Russian class. And my instructor--such a nice guy, kept even-keeled and level-headed and everything--had paramedics ( Read more... )