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critics; and dreams
Mar. 27th, 2003 12:37 pmYesterday J. and I studied together most of the day, possibly not getting as much done as we might have because of our constant need to mock the books we were reading: "'Panopticism of power' my ass!" she exclaimed at one point.
That's so cool.
As for my own reading, I had to stop and record my main complaint in writing, as if doing a book review:
"Who is P. writing for? The reader who is grateful for the information on p. 22 that papyrus is 'a paper-like material made from ... the papyrus reed' (and that the study of things written on sheets of it is called 'papyrology') will likely need more help with the statement on p. 37 that 'The Hellenistic parakataqhkh eventually became the Roman depositum irregulare' than can probably be found by turning to the foreign-language scholarly articles cited in the footnote."
We also did laundry, ate kielbasa, watched "Angel," and made fun of the cats.
The laundromat floor was covered in water (or, to judge from the smell, a water/urine solution), making it vital that no clean (or even, if it could be helped, dirty) laundry fall upon it. Fortunately the locations for our other activities were less objectionable.
In other news, I can only remember fragments of my dreams last night, and I am convinced that more of these fit into a single dream than should have been possible; it is pretty clear to me where some elements have come from (although I wouldn't have thought them important enough for my subconscious mind to dwell upon), but the rest has me baffled:
( ... I could tell the jock was getting the message wrong, and I tried to get his attention to correct him, but I couldn't, and the Devil was rather impatiently holding the elevator for me ... )
That's so cool.
As for my own reading, I had to stop and record my main complaint in writing, as if doing a book review:
"Who is P. writing for? The reader who is grateful for the information on p. 22 that papyrus is 'a paper-like material made from ... the papyrus reed' (and that the study of things written on sheets of it is called 'papyrology') will likely need more help with the statement on p. 37 that 'The Hellenistic parakataqhkh eventually became the Roman depositum irregulare' than can probably be found by turning to the foreign-language scholarly articles cited in the footnote."
We also did laundry, ate kielbasa, watched "Angel," and made fun of the cats.
The laundromat floor was covered in water (or, to judge from the smell, a water/urine solution), making it vital that no clean (or even, if it could be helped, dirty) laundry fall upon it. Fortunately the locations for our other activities were less objectionable.
In other news, I can only remember fragments of my dreams last night, and I am convinced that more of these fit into a single dream than should have been possible; it is pretty clear to me where some elements have come from (although I wouldn't have thought them important enough for my subconscious mind to dwell upon), but the rest has me baffled:
( ... I could tell the jock was getting the message wrong, and I tried to get his attention to correct him, but I couldn't, and the Devil was rather impatiently holding the elevator for me ... )
