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i carry your heart with me
Aug. 3rd, 2021 10:26 pmi carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage.
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage.
The Secret by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Aug. 2nd, 2021 08:29 pmLyrics of Lowly Life
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"THE SECRET"
What says the wind to the waving trees?
What says the wave to the river?
What means the sigh in the passing breeze?
Why do the rushes quiver?
Have you not heard the fainting cry
Of the flowers that said “Good–bye, good–bye”?
List how the gray dove moans and grieves
Under the woodland cover;
List to the drift of the falling leaves,
List to the wail of the lover.
Have you not caught the message heard
Already by wave and breeze and bird?
Come, come away to the river’s bank,
Come in the early morning;
Come when the grass with dew is dank,
There you will find the warning—
A hint in the kiss of the quickening air
Of the secret that birds and breezes bear.
The Crying of Lot 49
Jul. 25th, 2021 05:48 pmSo I've finished The Crying of Lot 49. enjoyed it very much. would have finished faster if i hadn't lost access to my laptop and the ebook midway through. but regardless, now it's done and has given me much to think about. granted i'm not really in a good mental spot for deep thinking given my current health, so bear with me on this review as i jot down some rough notes and quotes here.
although it's a neat concept, i found it hard to believe anyone would get so worked up over a secret alternative postal system and history as to almost lose their mind over it. but then again there are people even today who would like to see the postal service privatized, so perhaps this would be all the more exciting and enticing to them. another modern parallel i kept thinking about in relation to the opt-out W.A.S.T.E. system, was covid vaccines and the sizable backlash against those by some.
i could appreciate what Pynchon was doing though, depicting someone who gets so wrapped up in an idea that they start losing sight of reality. and it does seem to come down to the importance of exploring ideas and information while still maintaining perspective. it's very easy to get lost in details and lose sight of the big picture. i remember this happening to me in college a lot during research. the only way to finish the thesis though is to not lose sight of that big picture story that you want to tell, to keep tying everything you learn back to that. in true research, when you're done you put your work out there into the world fully expecting critique, correction, eventual modification, whereas Oedipa gives up after awhile out of fear that she will be made into a laughing stock. because of this fear she can only continue to speculate that either there may be more to the world than meets the eye, or there is not and she has just been caught up in her bored and overactive imagination, hallucinating as she puts it. in either case, her best course would seem to be to just resume a normal life again, yet the novel suggests she is simply too far gone at that point.
i was disappointed that Pynchon didn't further explore the occurence of synchornicity in this work; perhaps he does moreso in his other books. or perhaps his lack of commentary is commentary in itself.
as for the ending, i thought it was fitting, as i was indeed sad to see it go.
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although it's a neat concept, i found it hard to believe anyone would get so worked up over a secret alternative postal system and history as to almost lose their mind over it. but then again there are people even today who would like to see the postal service privatized, so perhaps this would be all the more exciting and enticing to them. another modern parallel i kept thinking about in relation to the opt-out W.A.S.T.E. system, was covid vaccines and the sizable backlash against those by some.
i could appreciate what Pynchon was doing though, depicting someone who gets so wrapped up in an idea that they start losing sight of reality. and it does seem to come down to the importance of exploring ideas and information while still maintaining perspective. it's very easy to get lost in details and lose sight of the big picture. i remember this happening to me in college a lot during research. the only way to finish the thesis though is to not lose sight of that big picture story that you want to tell, to keep tying everything you learn back to that. in true research, when you're done you put your work out there into the world fully expecting critique, correction, eventual modification, whereas Oedipa gives up after awhile out of fear that she will be made into a laughing stock. because of this fear she can only continue to speculate that either there may be more to the world than meets the eye, or there is not and she has just been caught up in her bored and overactive imagination, hallucinating as she puts it. in either case, her best course would seem to be to just resume a normal life again, yet the novel suggests she is simply too far gone at that point.
i was disappointed that Pynchon didn't further explore the occurence of synchornicity in this work; perhaps he does moreso in his other books. or perhaps his lack of commentary is commentary in itself.
as for the ending, i thought it was fitting, as i was indeed sad to see it go.
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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Jan. 29th, 2019 10:55 amMy last Vonnegut. Kind of a bittersweet moment in more ways than one, like the end of an era. It was at times difficult but so very worth the journey.
Anyway, my first public post in quite awhile, as I only leave my book notes/reviews unfiltered. It’s rather long so under the cut it goes.
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Anyway, my first public post in quite awhile, as I only leave my book notes/reviews unfiltered. It’s rather long so under the cut it goes.
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Swann's Way
May. 6th, 2008 01:46 pmcurrently reading this through dailylit. So I should be done, oh, by December sometime I think.
It started slow but it's actually pretty interesting and even funny at times. Proust's characterizations are detailed and well-observed.
It started slow but it's actually pretty interesting and even funny at times. Proust's characterizations are detailed and well-observed.
my very first book meme
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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.
karmicdreaming . These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.
Sirens of Titan
Feb. 3rd, 2008 07:14 amInteresting read but quite sad all in all. Why? you ask. Well the implication is that everything people do in life is meaningless. the best we can do is be nice to each other along the way in a ride we don't and can't understand.
Slow going at the start and rather difficult to get through.
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Slow going at the start and rather difficult to get through.
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