The Following Entry is Coming Like Mr. Kipling: Exceedingly Good

A week of miniDOOM is upon me. I'll be spending the next seven days writing papers. I've got one due Thursday and two due next Tuesday. It's not even midterms. Fun. The topics aren't so bad, though. The paper for the Sea Captian is going to be on the symbolism of the wall paper in "The Yellow Wallpaper," so I'll probably end up writing about women's repression and all that fun stuff. And the Shakespeare paper will include gender bending in Cymbeline.

I love it when knowledge bleeds together. This week's reading for Feminist Inquiry mentioned Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," and an essay in the One Book to Rule Them All talked about Nietzsche's "The Uses and Disadvantages of History For Everyday Life," which is what I have to read and write on for this week. Though in the essay they translated the title completely differently. They said it was "History in the Service and Disservice of Life" and that it is included in the book Unmodern Observations as oppsed to Untimely Meditations. But, I was still a good essay. Much more satisfying than the one titled "Uberhobbits: Tolkein, Nietzsche and the Will To Power." And that one had had such a promising title, too. Ah well. "'Farewell to Lorien': The Bounded Joy of Existentialists and Elves" made up for that disappontment. As did "'My Precious': Tolkien's Fetishized Ring."