school is kicking me in the face
why am i still going to school?
“So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word “dissipate” - to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. In the little hours of the night every move from place to place was an enormous human jump, an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion.”
-fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited"
i am currently working on a paper and a 30 minute presentation on this quote alone. of course, it's pretty damn cool that i get to do this on one of my most favorite short stories ever. yet it makes it more difficult in so many other ways. sometimes i want to skip ahead to when everything is all figured out and i'm peacefully asleep. smartest thing i've never/ever said.
“So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word “dissipate” - to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. In the little hours of the night every move from place to place was an enormous human jump, an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion.”
-fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited"
i am currently working on a paper and a 30 minute presentation on this quote alone. of course, it's pretty damn cool that i get to do this on one of my most favorite short stories ever. yet it makes it more difficult in so many other ways. sometimes i want to skip ahead to when everything is all figured out and i'm peacefully asleep. smartest thing i've never/ever said.