Question: So, what can you do with an English major?

My Answer: Why, I’ll bedazzle you with my erudition and pedantry, that’s wut.

...in other news, academia is so ridiculously incestuous. And it's especially so when you're going across minority-specific discourse. I've just read like six articles that pretty much link to each other or reference the writer. It's hilarious because you could totally just read it as a personal diary ( Read more... )

Gaah! The run-ons! They're...They're...running on! And on, and on, and on, and--oh! I see, in the midst of all these runs-of-ons, a carcass of a pink bunny! Vultures of bad repetition circle and circle and circle the poor dead, and oh how they shriek heavily (in bad English), "The Institute, The Institute, The Institute" and, "The Department aims, ( Read more... )

The Other Tiger by Jorge Luis Borges ( Read more... )

Why can't it be Thursday already! T__T Dying here, really. Urgh. ~waits impatiently~ The next episode of Skins is going to KEEL ME DEAD! Gaaah. Gaaah ( Read more... )

Ze Typing writer ( Read more... )

'For,' the outsider will say, 'in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'

Ever since I read Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas a couple years ago, I have been pondering those words. At first, I didn't believe them, I didn't understand them. They didn't make sense to me. I mean, as ( Read more... )

"Oh," I cried, standing at the bus stop ( Read more... )

I don't like and am not interested in poetry. Poetry, I feel, can only capture an emotion at its purest and only that. That emotion is only one part of the entire story. Prose can tell that story but it can't capture that sensation, that beat in which only an instrument can effectively capture. My instrument of choice is the cello, but I cannot ( Read more... )

The Berg and Clay translation of Oedipus the King is freaking awesome. It's like reading an entirely different play. I mean, here you have a prime example of how it's not so much the plot of a story that matters, it's not the originality of the story which makes something compelling, but the way it is told. The language used ( Read more... )