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HagiographyI said: tomorrow let’s meet  
at this corner, I can buy  you a drink and we’ll talk.  
About what? you said, looking  beyond me, your eyes on the lights  of the Port Authority building and the signs  that kept trying to tell us  location. Approaching  Eighth Avenue. All the time I kept thinking  those shrimp were so good, that we ate  
at that bar in the theatre district. This still is  the theatre district, again – but that was  the first flush of twenty-one, swaying  
arms linked through the streets and punch-drunk  on a lack  of limits, though I poure Hagiography
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Endings1997   
 It was kindergarten. We were sitting under a painted rainbow.  
 
 “You could change it all now, you know,” she said.  
 
 I looked at her. “Change what?” I said. My face was smudged with crayon and little-girl curiosity.  
 
 “Your life,” she said. “You could change what happens later. In a few years you won’t like it very much. Do you want to change it?”   
 “Why?” I asked, worried. “What happens?”   
 She shrugged. “Nothing much, really. Nothing horrible.”    Endings
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Ignobility: II. STYLOBATES MARMOREUS   
      The pedestal was empty. To its side  stood she who just had occupied the stand –  
a plinth of smoothest marble, white as wings  
of birds, the flocks that wheeled overhead.  
She was Marie of Datoíri, chief  ambassador for all that region known  
as the Imaginary Planets –  faméd  clime. This league of five small planets had  seceded, as we know, from all the rest,  
so that it might provide a haven and  
asylum for all those in discontent  
with customs of the ordinary world.  
It Ignobility: I
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Ignobility: PraefatioPRAEFATIO   
      Tell me whether the dead return.  I ask, O Muse, not only for the one  
whose story we shall tell, but for my sake  as well: the poet dare not answer this  
herself. Its resolution is too fraught  
with gloom for her, with dark and winding paths  
that twist in sharp returns – to ever more  
sinister realms, where flitting specters hide  
and whisper menaces half-heard. Such is  
the labyrinth of the mind. So spin, O Fates,  
upon your golden looms, and aid us both:  
the puzzled Muse, and I, as yet still blind.  
  Ignobility: Praefatio
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Interestingly enough

Sun Apr 26, 2009, 1:11 PM
  • Mood: Eager
I will be attending Reed College in the fall.


This was entirely my decision, not affected by the financial aid situation. So much for the theoretical intellectual accuracy of emotional attraction. Or rather, so much for that, without the addition of actually visiting the colleges concerned. I did not make my decision until the night of April 24, flying back from Chicago.

(A word about cities other than New York: they do not measure up. Not in any respect. They don't even come close. So it is better if (a) they don't even try and (b) a New Yorker does not attempt to use them as substitutes. That would be like using coffee to get off meth. Incidentally, however, Portland has very good coffee.)


Now I have to go cancel my APs.
There is a point to life, and I don't understand why.




aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

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  • Current Residence: an academic prison. <3
  • Interests: intertextuality, mortality, science fiction, epic literature, academics, stars + pilots
  • Favourite movie: Spirited Away, Proof
  • Favourite band or musician: Beethoven, Brahms, John Williams, Ravel, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead
  • Favourite poet or writer: Shakespeare, Louise Glück
  • MP3 player of choice: LPs and CDs will live on.
  • Skin of choice: Floppy sweaters
  • Personal Quote: "I would have a nervous breakdown, but I don't have the time!"
  • Tools of the Trade: Mechanical pencils + looseleaf; computer; procrastination; sleep deprivation; caffeine; angst

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=Negated:iconNegated: May 14, 2009, 3:28:36 PM
I know you're not going, but if you were this'd be great for prom: [link]=prom+dress&ga_search_type=all&ga_page=32&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

la la la

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~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: May 14, 2009, 6:01:14 PM
That's a great price, but it's not quite my style, and it would be freaking huge on me (38" chest?!)

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
=Negated:iconNegated: May 14, 2009, 6:07:03 PM
oh, forgot to check the dimensions haha

it sort of reminded me of your semi outfit

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~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: May 14, 2009, 8:23:51 PM
I don't really like my Semi outfit
it was all my mother's clothing

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
~Eilicea:iconEilicea: Apr 28, 2009, 5:21:16 PM
I like yr sig. :)

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~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: Apr 28, 2009, 5:23:53 PM
Meee tooo.

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
~Eilicea:iconEilicea: Apr 28, 2009, 6:07:15 PM
This article reminded me of you:

[link]

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then came the many ways and vistas of God...
~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: Apr 28, 2009, 6:40:30 PM
I agree with some of his points: interdisciplinary work to examine real problems, more interaction between departments, less hyper-specialization, and the abolition of tenure. However, he assumes that learning is inherently a means to an end, and I disagree with that. I find the ideas of web-based theses and departments called "Water" or "Body" a bit suspect.

It's a difficult topic, how academia should relate to the real world.

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
~Eiszapfen:iconEiszapfen: Mar 25, 2009, 5:37:30 PM
:bounce: :party: :floating: :w00t: :airborne:

lol

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If it looks like a frog and acts like a frog, then it's a frog
~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: Mar 25, 2009, 6:00:05 PM
:academic:

:P

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
~Eiszapfen:iconEiszapfen: Mar 26, 2009, 4:37:43 PM
haha I would make one if I knew how...

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~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: Mar 25, 2009, 5:29:27 PM
wtf wtf wtf. How do you know the decisions are out?

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
=Negated:iconNegated: Mar 25, 2009, 5:40:22 PM
haha. how come everyone tries to exclude me from such things?? :sadfayce:

(ps: louis got in, too!)

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~renaissance1912:iconrenaissance1912: Mar 25, 2009, 5:59:06 PM
I was not trying to exclude you. It would overwhelm me to tell more than one person at once. I don't know how I'll handle tomorrow.

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Anywhere I hang myself is home. -- Louis Nordstrom
~pinkcoma:iconpinkcoma: Mar 23, 2009, 12:09:49 PM
hey,

thanks for the fav!
:heart::hug:

ex&&ohs
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