January 2012
20 posts
Nabokov had his index cards, I have post-it notes....
All of my plans, thoughts, impressions, useful quotes, and connections made between Tonio Kröger and Draußen vor der Tur that relate to my senior thesis are on post-it notes everywhere around my room.
My advisor’s linear German practicality would be horrified.
“Ich stehe zwischen zwei Welten, bin ich in keiner daheim und habe es infolge...”
– Tonio Kröger von Thomas Mann
Chanel Spring 2012 Couture →
LOVE LOVE LOVE
My GPLC lesson tomorrow consists of (among other...
Solid.
Winter Fear
Is it just winter or is this worse. Is this the year when outer damp obscures a deeper curse that spring can’t fix, when gears that turn the earth won’t shift the view, when clouds won’t lift though all the skies go blue.
- Kay Ryan
“Если бы вы так, как я, любили,
вы бы убили любовь.”
– If you had loved as I had loved, you would murder love.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
“The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
– Jane Austen
And so it begins
the semester, that is. and i’m already doing 10 things at once. there’s no rest for the wicked.
“When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who’s warm.”
– A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
