…and your daily dose of nonsense. (We finally made it to YouTube!)
an email recently unarchived by Emily:
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Subject: temp jobs
From: ”elsbeth pancrazi” <elpancrazi@vassar.edu>
Date: Sun, May 9, 2004 2:12 pm
To: emscarr@vassar.edu
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temp jobs!
emily, i want to marry a ranger and go live in the wilderness of a
foreign land like henry david thourough [sic] but not a philosopher and grow
tamales and tomatillos and hot peppers and never be a temp.
“Professors, [King Louis XI] reasoned, should be as intelligent as possible, since they represented him, “le roi terrible,” and therefore he saw that they did not disappoint him. Once a year, willy-nilly, they were served a dinner at the king’s orders, and at that dinner they were bound to eat, and eat prodigiously, of oysters. It was to make them bright, and once accomplished, keep them so!”
“… you don’t have to worry about not being in the avante-garde camp.”
“Let’s do like that crazy mathematician who employed a new principle of measurement for each step of his calculations….”
“It is becoming more difficult even senseless, for me to write a standard English. More and more my own language appears to me as a veil, to be torn apart to approach the things (or the nothings) behind it. Grammar and style! They seem to me as superannuated as a Victorian bathing suit or the dignity of a gentleman. A mask. A time, let’s hope, is coming when language will be best used when best abused. Since we can’t eliminate it all at once, let’s not neglect anything that might contribute to its corruption. To bore hole after hole in it, until what cowers behind it begins to seep through - I can imagine no higher goal for a contemporary writer.”
If you are hoping I’ll record some quotes from Anne Carson this semester, I’m sorry to say it’s impossible. She’s just way to ephemeral for that. The best I can do is pass on Monica’s observation… “She seems more beautiful every time we see her.”
“…and what makes “I’m not here to make friends” quintessential reality tv is that it’s impossible to imagine saying it in real life!”
Sita Sings The Blues, an amazing animated movie my mom introduced me to, also has the coolest free-distribution model! Follow the link and you can download it, stream it, screen it… even remix it if you wanted to. Lewis Hydes’ gift culture in action. And you will love the film!
