Friday, February 22, 2008

I am a Lit. geek & Cirque
Regarding that bit of news on the main page that I'm assuming most have seen by now... anyone have any Claymore fic ideas? (Teresa-centric, preferably.) Or random prompts or whatever else anyone throws at me, article/features included because I'm pathetically dry on ideas at the moment. (EDIT: And if mature-rated fics get the ok, the incredibly juvenile side of me wants to write gag smut just for shits and giggles. :3)

And because all this talk of fandom essay writing has got me in my geeky writer's mode, one of those little anecdotal experiences I had in Lang class yesterday; my group was supposed to be analyzing animal-related imagery used in a chapter of our reading, when a classmate asked:

Her: I really don't know what to write. I mean, what are animals supposed to symbolize?
Me: ...Ummm, nothing? Animals are animals. ^^;;

A couple years back, I remember reading a poem in which the writer/teacher accused his students of trying to "beat a confession" out of poetry, though I think that applies just as well to how most people approach prose analysis. I think perhaps some students think about Literature too logically, as if literary analysis and symbolism in particular works the same way a mathematical formula would. (ex. rain = rebirth, fire = passion, mx + b = y, etc.) When in reality, those "formulas" are more like really flimsy guidelines that change depending on the context they're used in. I don't know, I guess I find it... intriguing? Endearing? That people think of symbolism and literature in general in such a linear way.

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(Oh, and I had one of those brilliant moments in Japanese class today where I realized that I know more Japanese than I think. And it involved my old Psych teacher conversing in Japanese and saying "hazukashii" more often than a moe-esque high school girl.)

I'm contemplating whether or not I should beg my dad to blow a couple hundred bucks buying tickets to see the latest Cirque du Soleil production coming to Chicago in June. On one hand, I'm already going to be spending bucketloads of money in preparation for dorm life and all that, and on the other...


...That TOTALLY looks worth blowing a couple hundred bucks on. CONTORTIONISTS!!!
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