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Agent Stakeknife
Jan. 21st, 2004 12:32 amIt was snowing today, but not of the sticking sort. Which is good, because it was also the first day of classes. And so far so good. I recognize a few people in Philosophy & Literature and Satire. Don't know anyone at all in Drugs & Literature, aside from a couple people I've seen walking around the Humanities building, but I don't acutally know them. But that class has the most kick-ass syllabus ever. I ordered the books from Powell's, because I don't feel like dealing with finding them in the UNM Bookstore and waiting for more to come in and whatnot. Besides, since the whole lost cost $80, that meant no shipping, and because the store's in Portland, no sales tax. Anyway, what I bought today:
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In addition to those, we'll also be reading some Coleridge, DeQuincey, Baudelaire, and the Beatles. Still have a few other books to get for other classes, which I'll probably take care of tomorrow.
Philosophy & Literature was a short class today. I got to campus early, even after an incredibly slow and cautious shuttle ride. And the professor showed up 20 minutes late, talked for another 20 minutes and then let us go. The class is going to be mostly discussion, and therefore we need to have read stuff to discuss, which we didn't for today of course, so not much to do in class. We did talk about Plato's Phaedrus a bit, which I read a couple weeks ago, having found an extremely cheap copy of that and the Symposium.
I've started on Horace, which is the reading for Satire, but have gotten only as far as the introduction to book one. I probably could have done with skipping it, because I found it more annoying than helpful. It includes a lot of untranslated Latin quotations (and from the Satires which it introduces!) and a whole lot of embedded literary quotations that don't really have much bearing on the subject matter. You need to steal phrases from Midsummer and alter Eliot while talking about Horace... why? Horace predates Shakespeare and Eliot by a long shot! What does it add?
Anyway, tomorrow I've got Indo-European Language & Culture, which I'm terribly excited about, and Modern Philosophy, which I'm somewhat ambivalent about.
( More books )
In addition to those, we'll also be reading some Coleridge, DeQuincey, Baudelaire, and the Beatles. Still have a few other books to get for other classes, which I'll probably take care of tomorrow.
Philosophy & Literature was a short class today. I got to campus early, even after an incredibly slow and cautious shuttle ride. And the professor showed up 20 minutes late, talked for another 20 minutes and then let us go. The class is going to be mostly discussion, and therefore we need to have read stuff to discuss, which we didn't for today of course, so not much to do in class. We did talk about Plato's Phaedrus a bit, which I read a couple weeks ago, having found an extremely cheap copy of that and the Symposium.
I've started on Horace, which is the reading for Satire, but have gotten only as far as the introduction to book one. I probably could have done with skipping it, because I found it more annoying than helpful. It includes a lot of untranslated Latin quotations (and from the Satires which it introduces!) and a whole lot of embedded literary quotations that don't really have much bearing on the subject matter. You need to steal phrases from Midsummer and alter Eliot while talking about Horace... why? Horace predates Shakespeare and Eliot by a long shot! What does it add?
Anyway, tomorrow I've got Indo-European Language & Culture, which I'm terribly excited about, and Modern Philosophy, which I'm somewhat ambivalent about.
