I have finished Ivanhoe. The impossible deed, prematurely fashioned as such, has been done. It was actually rather good. Otherwise, finished my course essay, and added some stuff by Deleuze to an essay on the island as an epistemological trope in the work of Elizabeth Bishop which I plan to submit for a Faculty prize. I think it has a fighting chance - depending on who reads it. AND ASSUMING MY ARCH-RIVAL DOES NOT TRUMP ME AGAIN, AS SEEMS TO BE THE CASE EVERYWHERE ELSE.

I was thinking about it the other day, and I came up with the pretty apt comparison of them (not giving away gender!) to me was Gary to Ash. If you don't understand that reference then you are either older than me, or simply a better person, because Gary is Ash's nemesis in that most acclaimed of Japanese cultural (debatable choice of word there?) exports, Pokemon. It's summed up here There is an accent in there somewhere, but I don't know where, and I don't care enough to find out. Turns out even in procrastination apathy dogs me as much as it does whilst revising.

Labels: arch-rival, revision

"The circle of human knowledge, illuminated by the pale, cold light of reason, is so infinitesimally small, the dark regions of human ignorance which lie beyond that luminous ring so immeasurably vast, that imagination is feign to step up to the borderline and send the warm, richly colored beams of her fairy lantern streaming out into the darkness ; and so, peering into the gloom, she is apt to mistake the shadowy reflections of her own figure for real beings moving in the abyss.

Sir James George FrazerThe Golden Bough

April 2010 / May 2010 / June 2010 / July 2010 / August 2010 / September 2010 / February 2011 / April 2011 / August 2011 / September 2011 /

Quantity, not quality. / Gravitas / Fine by me. Or just fine me. Go on, fine me. / Revision is swell / First post /

The title of this blog comes from a poem by Coleridge, A Wish: Wriiten in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792, Plus most blogs are moans anyway. Including this one. lol manuscripts

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I'm a 23 year-old student in London Cambridge London, studying English Literature Law. It's hard to really think of anything truly personal I can put here that might give you some idea of who I am, so I will just tell you that my favourite Shakespeare play is Richard II, my favourite chocolate bar is Snickers, and I have a bit of a thing for instant coffee, especially if someone else makes it for me.

I'm interested in Renaissance Literature, Higher Education policy, and libraries.
I'm completely in love with a Scottish girl.