Man, academic writing drives me cUh-RAy-zEe. I’ve been fighting on and off with a book of criticism for maybe a week now—really, the only time the fighting is off is when I have to put the book down because I get so aggravated with it. Then I got to the part about “the elaborate prefiguring of the autobiography’s unknowable nothingness,” to which the only possible response, after reading the sentence one more time, and then another, and then maybe swearing, is: YOU CAN SUCK MY UNKNOWABLE NOTHINGNESS.
posted by stellou at 3:24 AM
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Yeah, that's why I'm not in grad school...
By some burp of the universe, is this site authored by Astella from IJ 1989-1992 & CJC 1993-94? If it is, I bumped into Henny in Covent Gdn today & we talked about you!
SUZZAN O'RAT!!!!!!!
EH!!! the universe is burping loudly.
can you not be shy to give my storied educational background???
AUNTIE!!! tell that bloody henny to email me back, not say i am the best emailer in the world, but i emailed her BIG NEWS. :-p
and then can you ask her for my email address and then email me? tangs ah!
xxxxx
i had brunch with Beefy today and she says hi! tym, she says hi to you too! she had french toast and i had wild mushroom and leak fritatta!
tym: no, but, generally grad school is good. come on, man!! three months of summer vacation?? one month of winter vacation?? okay, so there's that pesky thesis thing... but it's, like, i dunno, so many weeks of solitary confinement--after ONE AND A HALF YEARS OF THROWING PARTIES. grad school is the best racket around. :-)
kk: mmm. brunch. i like brunch. i foraged and snacked throughout midday today, is that counted as brunch? it was good, in any case: a little babaghanoush and toasted pita; smoked gouda and an oat biscuit drizzled with chestnut honey; a sweet tangerine. yah! wins all round.
oh, y'alls hanging out in chicago... makes me want to go to unicorn!!! (thanks, yumei, for the memories...)
C'est quoi le livre?
kk --- I say hi to Beefy too! Can you email me her email address? And all the details of your brunch, naturally.
Susan --- I knew your older sister. Do you have her email? If so, can you send it to our darling Stellou, who can then forward it to me?
This blog post is clearly at the centre of the reunion universe.
cecyl: c'est un truc critique de Leiris qui a pour titre "Writing the Self." en fait je trouve que ouais les observations de l’auteur sont perspicaces, chuis d’accord avec tout ce qu’il dit, mais ça me véner qu’il faut d’abord genre me frayer un chemin à travers le brouillard académique...
tym: eh don't paiseh and feel like you need to leave me any messages... :-p also, i think my sister knew susan's sister, and now my sister also knows you, which means...um, well, i'm not sure what it means. oh, maybe it means you could ALMOST be an i.j. girl, HA HA.
I wanna be a part of this universe reunion ! :-p
gnou un peu fou
JE vois ce que tu veux dire. J'ai le meme probleme avec Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Genette (dans une moindre mesure), etc.
Ici, j'ai un Foucault que je peux pas lire parce que j'ai pas de Petit Robert sous la main a la maison. Et encore, s'il suffisait d'un dictionnaire pour les piger... La plupart du temps ils inventent des mots ou des expressions qu'ils ne prennent meme pas la peine de definir clairement. Si tu faisais ca a l'ecole (ou meme a l'universite) t'etais bon pour avoir un carton (ie. mauvaise note) mais si tu t'appelles Foucault tout le monde trouve ca classe.
Longtemps j'ai suspecte ces gens-la de ne pas faire des livres pour leurs lecteurs mais juste pour faire chier les autres Agreges, profs de Normal Sup., etc.
OH MY GAWD! How is it that Susan found your blog!!!! Woah surely your reading has turned for the better. And how come the whole wide world knows Susan's family?!?!?!
Stellou --- This message is for you. Wah, I am almost an IJ girl, tankyu. I think that is quite an honour (no, really). I frequently wish I had a more interesting school background, instead of that predictable institution with the dark blue school uniform. I am such a walking stereotype. And everybody rolls their eyes or gets very quiet when I mention my alma mater! *wah*
gabi-gabgnou : euuhhh il semble que tu dois genre
(a) être une gonzesse ;
(b) être chinoise !! ...ou quelque sorte d'asiatique, en tout cas ;
(c) avoir quelque connexion à singapour ; et
(d) connaître cette meuf susan !!!
...si on va te permettre d'assister à la réunion...
ou p-e tu peux être mon "plus one," HA HA. ^_^
cecyl:
re: si tu t'appelles Foucault tout le monde trouve ça classe...
nice work if you can get it! :-p
eh, rennyboo: i also want to say!!! except that apparently no one knows the younger sister, is she the loser of the fam? crap, how come i am rude? oh, because it is my blog!! :-p meanwhile, how come suzzan has disappeared now that apparently everyone is looking for her??
tym: sorry, are you talking about the elite girls' school located at the corner of stevens road and whatever? HA HA HA. anyway, eh, raffles predictable meh?
also, you will recall that when you revealed your dirty secret to me and jacq, i believe jacq neither rolled eyes nor got quiet (we is i.j. girls after all, there is no such thing as "quiet"), and in fact she said: "yah, you have an aura of cleverness about you." you see, we are not only welcoming, we are also happy to tell you things to your face.
I haven't disappeared but am quietly & industriously (hmm not very IJ-like...) trying to obtain your email address from the Henster. When you mention Jacq do you mean the Jacq Lim?
Ren hello!!! :)
hmmm...
the easiest way looks to be your plus one. and it ain't the most unpleasant ! not that I wouldn't like to be une gonzesse chinoise de Singapour, but that would still let you have a "plus one" opportunity in your universe meeting. I'd rather be the plus one. merci chérie :-p
Gabi-Gagnou
Eh, auntie, OF COURSE jacq lim. she is also quiet and industrious and a BANKER!!! can you believe!!! and she speaks CHINNIS!!!! i mean, hello, did she go to i.j.?
Gagnou: Will the plus one bring his plus scooter??? :-)
did my gonzesse chinoise de Singapour ever imagine the center of universe without a plus scooter ? and how did you expect to move there if not on my shadow ?!
so... oh DAIM' yes, I'll be a scooterisé plus one.
one and a gnou
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