May 11, 2007 11:00
- Pick up Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire and read chapter six (Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature).
- Realise that TD is one of the most beautifully written expositions I've ever read.
- Go to Girder and chat with Dim and the rest of the staff. Profusely thank Chef Katie for birthday dessert cuisine.
- Have coriander, sweet chilli, and chicken pizza at Girder. Find God.
- Indulge in two glasses of pinot noir with dinner. Destroy God.
- Try a Greek cabernet and enjoy it's peculiar palette.
- Taste a Portuguese red and despise it.
- Only pay for the pinot and the pizza.
- Grab coffee from Vue on way home. Blather to barista about finitude and humanity.
- Walk home and chat to SH about her day, and the miscreants students that ruined mine.
- Collapse.
- Go to work and hand out three impromptu assignment extensions.
- Continue reading chapter six of TD as though it is penance.
- Realise that the lengthy size of Nussbaum's chapter is equivalent to the length of my thesis chapters. Shudder.
- Collect myself, and resolve suitably Sisyphean solution: change referencing format in dissertation.
- Return to reading TD, avoiding actually editing the dissertation, and wish writing beautiful prose came easier.
- With penance complete, plan to leave work by 12.30pm
~Niveau
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everyday symbolic fiction