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The occasional acid flashback
I appear to be sick. This is also true of several people on my friendlist, but it is medically impossible for me to have caught it from any of them, so Mercury is just in the sixth house or something.
I have no idea if one is actually supposed to see The Big Lebowski (1998) while sober and eating strawberries and condensed milk, but since the movie left me with the surprisingly vivid impression that I'd spent the last two hours stoned anyway, I don't think it matters very much. Credit goes to Viking Zen and Rob, who decided to fix my ignorance of this essential piece of American culture. It certainly explains some oft-quoted lines in college.
I have found a poem I don't remember writing. It's sort of a summary version of Amores 1.1; the creation date is October 28, 2003, so I must have written it during the translation course I took my first semester at Yale, but I don't believe the entire elegy was one of the passages assigned. The first four lines, yes; their straighter translation is part of the same file, along with three lines from Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. I assume I did the other version for my own entertainment, but I can't tell what I meant to do with it. Is it complete? Did I turn it in? (I hope I got useful feedback.) Why did I love ellipses so much?
Arma, or some other way that epics
begin: battles, everything that hexameters
are good for, that's what I had in mind.
But Cupid's laughing at me, sitting here
over my dactylic couplets gone suddenly
uneven, one foot abstracted . . . I wonder
what the word is, with which elegies begin.
Needless to say, I have not yet figured that out.
I have no idea if one is actually supposed to see The Big Lebowski (1998) while sober and eating strawberries and condensed milk, but since the movie left me with the surprisingly vivid impression that I'd spent the last two hours stoned anyway, I don't think it matters very much. Credit goes to Viking Zen and Rob, who decided to fix my ignorance of this essential piece of American culture. It certainly explains some oft-quoted lines in college.
I have found a poem I don't remember writing. It's sort of a summary version of Amores 1.1; the creation date is October 28, 2003, so I must have written it during the translation course I took my first semester at Yale, but I don't believe the entire elegy was one of the passages assigned. The first four lines, yes; their straighter translation is part of the same file, along with three lines from Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. I assume I did the other version for my own entertainment, but I can't tell what I meant to do with it. Is it complete? Did I turn it in? (I hope I got useful feedback.) Why did I love ellipses so much?
Arma, or some other way that epics
begin: battles, everything that hexameters
are good for, that's what I had in mind.
But Cupid's laughing at me, sitting here
over my dactylic couplets gone suddenly
uneven, one foot abstracted . . . I wonder
what the word is, with which elegies begin.
Needless to say, I have not yet figured that out.
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I'm sure there are situations in which the two are functionally indistinguishable.
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one foot abstracted
I've always loved the notion of feet, in poetry.
One foot abstracted
she leaves strange footprints in the snow.
"Tread carefully," the tracker warns.
"For here be metaphors."
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she leaves strange footprints in the snow.
"Tread carefully," the tracker warns.
"For here be metaphors."
I like your poem much better than mine.
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Don't be a harsh critic of your past self. Imagine all times exist simultaneously (which I think they do); your past self needs the support and encouragement of your present self. Well, okay, thinking of my past self, I do confess that maybe sometimes she needed a smackdown, but you're pretty stringent; I doubt you tried to fudge things even in your very much younger days.
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---L.
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Feel better!
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What are you sick with? Unless it's textile-worker's byssinosis, you didn't get it from me. I have been dealing with an arrythmia since 4:30 this morning that seems very happy to be where it is and not respond to anything like an arrhythmia-controlling drug, though, so I feel your metaphorical pain.
*hugs*
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What? Are you at the doctor's?
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It'll fix itself when it wants to. *shrug* until then I have a vast array of life-preservcing pharmaceuticals, I just feel tired and woobly.
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I've never seen The Big Lebowski at all, so you're ahead of me. It's amazing how often it does seem to be quoted/referenced.* I suppose it's possible that folk could be telling me that they're referencing the film as part of some elaborate practical joke, but this seems unlikely.
The poem is nice, actually. No need to be harsh on your younger self, to my mind.
*I was out of college by 1998, but it seems to be a film that many, if not most, of the folk I spend time with have seen.
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Screw medicine. Someone gave me this cold and I am not impressed. >=(
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Elegies start with time, since, after, or unless.
(Have you been reading
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Wer, wenn ich schriee,
hörte mich denn, aus der Engel
Ordnungen?
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That's why I told those #$#%$%$$# I DON'T ROLL ON SHABBAS!
And don't @##$$%# with the Jesus....
Hope you feel better soon. If I'd known you hadn't seen The Big Lebowski, I would have made it part of Hanscon.