its not that I'm silent so much as everything is changing right now and I am playing the jump on and adjust game...
I have a class all to my self for the next 6 wekks - maternity leave. the kids like me...
what is on my mind:
EMU is a shitty school
UofM is going to break our hearts
the lions will surprise
I'm still in a cage, it just has some new paper
guitar saves - mines at my cousins
Don Quixote
my teacher today said that Don Quixote will change my life. And he meant it. I am taking a class, one semester dedicated solely to the book and all it entails (actually we're leaving some 1/3 out as we won't have enough time)... I haven't heard someone say a book will change your life in way too long... this man meant it.
On the road changed my life.
Immortality changed my perspective.
Where the red fern grows made me cry. (I was 7)
that's it folks: three books.
the poetry of Ginsberg changed my life.
Lorca blew my mind, Langston opened my eyes, but only ginsberg made me cry (I was 24 and not on drugs)...
4 poets. but really there is so much more. Frost. What Frost writes always seems to soothe my soul and guide me... Neruda and all them spanish boys too...
Still, I've written poems never a book and books that change your life are few and far between... I'd be willing to bet that Don Quixote changes mine; picking it up I feel like kerouac, I see more than Kundera, and somehow I still feel like that seven year old child. This could be the perfect time for me to read the perfect book.
i'll come back to the cage another day but I can see the doors slamming shut and again there's not much I can do; everything is another some of entrapment, only our minds our free, our souls will burn with our bodies, and eventually everything will become nothingness...
I have a class all to my self for the next 6 wekks - maternity leave. the kids like me...
what is on my mind:
EMU is a shitty school
UofM is going to break our hearts
the lions will surprise
I'm still in a cage, it just has some new paper
guitar saves - mines at my cousins
Don Quixote
my teacher today said that Don Quixote will change my life. And he meant it. I am taking a class, one semester dedicated solely to the book and all it entails (actually we're leaving some 1/3 out as we won't have enough time)... I haven't heard someone say a book will change your life in way too long... this man meant it.
On the road changed my life.
Immortality changed my perspective.
Where the red fern grows made me cry. (I was 7)
that's it folks: three books.
the poetry of Ginsberg changed my life.
Lorca blew my mind, Langston opened my eyes, but only ginsberg made me cry (I was 24 and not on drugs)...
4 poets. but really there is so much more. Frost. What Frost writes always seems to soothe my soul and guide me... Neruda and all them spanish boys too...
Still, I've written poems never a book and books that change your life are few and far between... I'd be willing to bet that Don Quixote changes mine; picking it up I feel like kerouac, I see more than Kundera, and somehow I still feel like that seven year old child. This could be the perfect time for me to read the perfect book.
i'll come back to the cage another day but I can see the doors slamming shut and again there's not much I can do; everything is another some of entrapment, only our minds our free, our souls will burn with our bodies, and eventually everything will become nothingness...
3 Comments:
A Brief History of Time changed my life. Not because it was a great book on physics (I've read better since), but because it opened me up to a type of inquisition that I hadn't previously entertained. I can't think of another book that has changed my life, which is a little disappointing.
I think I will try to re-read The Confession of St. Augustine (I read precious little of it the first time round in my Great Books class). So much of our morality, as a (largely) Christian nation and even my own as an atheist, comes from what we falsely assume are biblical priciples. In reality, much of it is from St. Augustine or one of his contemporaries. I want to find out if this is someone I should be taking ethical advice from. My suspicion is that he is not.
You know, your copy of Confessions sits right next to my toilet... I find it inspirational at times.
jdon
Hmm, did I give it to you? No wonder I couldn't find it. I might have to borrow it back for a while.
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