random book quote meme
From bunnisteffi who got it from quietcorvin. What comes around, goes around.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1.)
6. Tag five people.
From Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes:
The Doxa is, as we know, oppressive. But can it be repressive? Let us read this terrible phrase from a revolutionary sheet (La Bouche de Fer, 1790): "above the three powers must be placed a censorial power of surveillance and public opinion which will belong to all, and which all will be able to exercise without representation."
Abou Nowas et la metaphore - Abu Novas and metaphor
Desire is no respecter of objects. When a hustler looked for Abu Novas, Abu Novas read in his eyes not the desire for money but just desire -- and he was moved by it. Let this serve as an apology for any and all sciences of displacement: the meaning transferred matters little or nothing, the terms of the trajectory matter little or nothing: the only thing that counts -- and establishes metaphor -- is the transference itself.
I tag virkallea, _debbiechan_, wicked_liz, syneiam, stompboxer. Only if you're willing, of course :D
Incidentally, I don't know WTF Barthes was talking about.
And no, I didn't dig this up for the meme.I dug Barthes out because of something that Starwing said over at the pairing debate thread at Bleach Asylum, which I had wanted to respond to, but lack the time to reply.
The pairing debate thread, incidentally, had got me thinking about literary modes of production again. (Barthes never talked about it but my grasshopper mind jumps from Barthes -- Adorno -- Macherey: people I used to read a long time ago.) If I ever have the time I will write an essay on Kubo Tite's literary production and finish the observations I started to make regarding the pairing debates, but I would REALLY have to do some solid research first. I don't want to embarrass myself with half-assed shooting in the dark. My thesis adviser might roll over in her grave.
Incidentally, while I was baking, somewhere in Subic my favorite pointy-nose writer, Neil Gaiman, delivered a talk at the national Ad Congress. I would have loved to see him again. :( He visited the country for the first time two years ago, and all the fangirls (including me) went ga-ga and gave him a rock star reception. He was shocked that he had so many fans here; Manila gave him his biggest crowd at a book signing ever (over 5,000. We even beat Texas.)
If I hadn't moved my books around several days ago (from my desk to a tottering heap behind my desk), I would have ended up quoting from "Seasons of Mist" again.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1.)
6. Tag five people.
From Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes:
The Doxa is, as we know, oppressive. But can it be repressive? Let us read this terrible phrase from a revolutionary sheet (La Bouche de Fer, 1790): "above the three powers must be placed a censorial power of surveillance and public opinion which will belong to all, and which all will be able to exercise without representation."
Abou Nowas et la metaphore - Abu Novas and metaphor
Desire is no respecter of objects. When a hustler looked for Abu Novas, Abu Novas read in his eyes not the desire for money but just desire -- and he was moved by it. Let this serve as an apology for any and all sciences of displacement: the meaning transferred matters little or nothing, the terms of the trajectory matter little or nothing: the only thing that counts -- and establishes metaphor -- is the transference itself.
I tag virkallea, _debbiechan_, wicked_liz, syneiam, stompboxer. Only if you're willing, of course :D
Incidentally, I don't know WTF Barthes was talking about.
And no, I didn't dig this up for the meme.I dug Barthes out because of something that Starwing said over at the pairing debate thread at Bleach Asylum, which I had wanted to respond to, but lack the time to reply.
The pairing debate thread, incidentally, had got me thinking about literary modes of production again. (Barthes never talked about it but my grasshopper mind jumps from Barthes -- Adorno -- Macherey: people I used to read a long time ago.) If I ever have the time I will write an essay on Kubo Tite's literary production and finish the observations I started to make regarding the pairing debates, but I would REALLY have to do some solid research first. I don't want to embarrass myself with half-assed shooting in the dark. My thesis adviser might roll over in her grave.
Incidentally, while I was baking, somewhere in Subic my favorite pointy-nose writer, Neil Gaiman, delivered a talk at the national Ad Congress. I would have loved to see him again. :( He visited the country for the first time two years ago, and all the fangirls (including me) went ga-ga and gave him a rock star reception. He was shocked that he had so many fans here; Manila gave him his biggest crowd at a book signing ever (over 5,000. We even beat Texas.)
If I hadn't moved my books around several days ago (from my desk to a tottering heap behind my desk), I would have ended up quoting from "Seasons of Mist" again.