Caroline Loftus > Recent Status Updates

Long ago this book was the epub I had in my phone to avoid doomscrolling. I realized I’m over halfway into it so I will finish it this summer before I completely forget what I learned and have to start over! Trying to get back into the blakean mindset. “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create”

lol

Nature and art and nature and art and nature and art and nature and art and

lol god help me

due to the path I have chosen (ie my department), krell lives in my head rent-free, whether I want him to or not. Time to actually read him.

Many people are saying this: 2023 is the year of Melville

Reading this again for a seminar with much more Freud and Lacan under my belt and perhaps a much more adversarial stance toward this book. We shall see. Not sure how easily I will accept that “desire is productive,” at this point, if at all.

Everyone wanted to kill Barney in the early 2000s because he was an Oedipal father figure

I’m giving a presentation on this book on Halloween and I’m wondering if I should just kill 2 birds with one stone and dress up as sigmund while I’m at it….

Rousseau’s childbearing advice includes exposing a baby to increasingly loud explosions such that he becomes immune to fear of guns

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it is always at its poorest where it fancies itself to be the richest