Mr. Larsen helped me come up with a sort of direction, which makes me extremely happy.
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06:07:41 PM,Monday 20 January 2003
A nice guy from B&G came by and fixed my lock this morning.
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01:45:10 PM,Monday 20 January 2003
Achilles has bits of being more interesting than Hector. Hector is a generally nice guy, he is fighting to defend his people, Troy will be taken and his wife will be taken over his dead body (he practically says as much to Andromache). His motives are simple, understandable, honourable motives. Achilles is a bit more complex in being as simple as he is. He fights for Glory, and stops fighting when his Glory is taken away from him. It isn't until the insult he got from Agamemnon is topped by the insult of Hector killing Patroclus that he is willing to return to battle. The first word of The Iliad is rage, and the word for rage is a word generally used for anger in gods, not humans. (This is what I have heard, I have not made a study of the word.) This is important, I think. It is why I like Fagles, he managed to keep it as the first word. (So did Chapman.) Everything he does is because of rage, he looses many souls heroic down to Hades, first when he stops fighting, and then when he begins fighting again. Even if he is a moody little brat.
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12:40:59 PM,Monday 20 January 2003
I find myself wanting to know more and more about Lily and James Potter. At times I am almost more interested in what happened to them than what will happen to their son. Lily and James and Lupin and Sirius.
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01:59:59 AM,Monday 20 January 2003
I like Utena. I deal very poorly in general about plot suspense in anything, and would probably be very happy if someone would tell me what's going to happen, but with Utena it isn't happening as much. I've taken lately to reading the end of new novels long before I get there. I did it with the last Lemony Snicket book. I even did it with the comic book Brianne checked out of the library about the Trojan war, not cause I didn't know what was going to happen (aside from some stuff like Calchas being Trojan and Polyxena wanting to marry Hector, it's remarkably well founded), but cause I wanted to see how far it was going to go. (It got to the Achaeans sailing out of Aulis.) The few of those murder mysteries I read last fall I always read the ending at the beginning. But anyway. I'm not wanting someone to tell me what's going to happen in Utena.
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01:58:46 AM,Monday 20 January 2003
My little sister's away message is Janet's birth control sign. It's amusing. I assume it's an "I'm sleeping" sort of message. God knows I have enough of those, and only half of those are from the Sandman. But it's amusing nonetheless.
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01:53:43 AM,Monday 20 January 2003
During the feasts of Roman Emperor Nero, guests lounged on pillows stuffed with rose petals, gazed upon fountains which flung up rose water, bathed in marble-lined pools filled with rose-perfumed waters, quaffed rose wine and indulged in rose pudding for dessert.
Well, I think it sounds like fun.
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01:46:50 AM,Monday 20 January 2003
The fish tank came with plants, but they were really cheesy looking, so I threw them out.
And Lia is my monk.
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02:27:06 AM,Saturday 18 January 2003
Hector needs a castle to defend. Not that he would have anything to defend it from, but he looks bored in there with only red glass marbles. And a castle looks very much like a walled city.
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02:25:51 AM,Saturday 18 January 2003
Rob said we can turn Lia into a male character to give to Ian if that's what we decide we want. The question is how much do I want to play a wizard? I've sort of grown attached to Lia.
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02:23:15 AM,Saturday 18 January 2003
Katherine has written a story out of conversation hearts. "--Cutie pie. --You are kind. --First kiss. --Love you. --Love her. --How nice. --Real love. --Cool. --True love. --Get real. --Marry me? --Go girl!"
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07:36:13 PM,Friday 17 January 2003
Katherine's poem: our past is burning out and golden like a star as broken as we are delerious the sky festooned with shoadow tears death has a wicked eye her heart eats all our years.
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07:23:33 PM,Friday 17 January 2003
I got a betta this afternoon. His name is Hector.
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07:05:37 PM,Friday 17 January 2003
Katherine is writing iambic pentameter with my magnetic poetry.
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07:05:17 PM,Friday 17 January 2003
The dining hall served these veggie egg rolls, of which I ate two cause they were the only edible looking thing in the dining hall, and now I feel like I might throw up.
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01:36:37 PM,Friday 17 January 2003
I did some organization of my bookmarks last night, which is a thing I do far too infrequently. It meant I got very lost when I went to read Ozy and Millie this morning.
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10:39:07 AM,Friday 17 January 2003
Blogs are an interesting phenomenon. They aren't really like anything else. They are not, whatever some people may like to think, particularly like journals, cause journals are not public, whereas blogs are entirely public. I have never kept a journal, except for the things they make you do in elementary school. People are constantly giving me journals: most recently at Christmas I was given a gorgeous brown leather journal with a sun in the leather (the book is removeable, so it can be used continually), but I would not write in a journal the things I write in my blog. Cassie's blog is, perhaps, the most journal like personal blog I read, and what makes it interesting is that she also seems to get the most comments. Her life is an open book, you read it on the internet. (As I type that, a line from an Emmylou Harris song "my life's an open book, you read it on the radio" was going through my head, and it was being sung to that tune.) It makes Katherine's blog novel a quite interesting idea. Hmm...Yes, well, now I am done, and am going back to Homer.
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03:30:44 AM,Friday 17 January 2003
I made green ink with one of the things of my blue black ink, and the other I left in PA. I am forced to write with normal blue ink, and this makes me sad.
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03:03:13 AM,Friday 17 January 2003
I have this picture in my head right now of Achilles and Agamemnon right before Achilles heads back into battle to kill Hector. He decides, for whatever reason, not to just arm up and go, but to apologize. Fine. I'm picturing him standing there, covered in dirt, looking totally out of it. Sad and angry, and just saying what he needs to say to deal with all this. And Agamemnon says, yeah, right, sorry right back at you, really, I'll give you all this stuff. And Achilles sort of says, yeah, whatever. Odysseus says let's eat! And here is where Achilles gets really mystified. He's standing there, impatient as hell, trying to get out to kill the man who killed his best friend/boyfriend, and they want to stop to eat and give him booty? I'm picturing him sort of standing there mystified and impatient as they take treasure from Agamemnon and bring it to him.
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02:45:49 AM,Friday 17 January 2003
Are polytheistic religions generally more tolerant of other religions? It would seem that you would be more willing to accept other gods than yours if you already had a bunch of gods. Especially if you have similar gods, or gods you can convince yourself are similar enough(Thoth, that's Hermes, yeah really, it's the same god...). And sure, so you have a god of this particular river, fine, I have a god of that river at home, so we both have river gods, big deal.
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01:52:01 AM,Friday 17 January 2003