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"Some of my best friends are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are transvestites."

posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 03:46am on 15/09/2008 under
Comment replies (and gushy, emotive thanks to [livejournal.com profile] livii) coming up when I'm not supposed to be working, but right now we've hit stupid o'clock again, and I have to witter on LJ or I won't be able to focus on my essay that's due in 7 hours.

I was so determined not to let this happen this year, guys. And then it did. Senior year is going to eat me alive and spit out my masticated bones.

Also, I am writing about a John Donne sonnet, and I have typed "Donna" instead of "Donne" at least five times.

And I kind of feel bad for reading gender issues and male anxieties into 17th-century poetry, since I do the exact same thing with 20th-century TV, but as far as I'm concerned Donne brings this on himself. If I wasn't supposed to read male sexual paranoia into Holy Sonnet 14, maybe he shouldn't have analogized the reception of divine grace and slavery/rape. No kidding.

Still a lovely poem, though.

Urgh. Monday is going to consist of one long nap, except that I have lab and pilates that day. Scratch that, Monday's going to consist of one long, delirious caffeine bender.
Music:: "The Lumberjack Song" - Monty Python
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posted by [identity profile] rainbowstevie.livejournal.com at 09:22am on 15/09/2008
If I wasn't supposed to read male sexual paranoia into Holy Sonnet 14, maybe he shouldn't have analogized the reception of divine grace and slavery/rape.
*snort* I love when you get all sassy about 17th century literature.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 11:14pm on 16/09/2008
But there's just so much to sass about! Seriously, though, sometimes I worry that I talk about my assigned class literature the same way I talk about TV, but it's rather fun once I start.
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posted by [identity profile] livii.livejournal.com at 02:13pm on 15/09/2008
Hee, no need, hon - it's a great story, and I was happy to rec it.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 11:19pm on 16/09/2008
Still, though, seeing that on my flist just made my day so much brighter. Thank you! *hugs*
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posted by [identity profile] srevans.livejournal.com at 02:22pm on 15/09/2008
Yeah, I saw you were featured! Good on you. :)

Goood luck with that sleep thing.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 11:24pm on 16/09/2008
Sleep thing actually went okay. I managed to stay up through the night and then went to bed as soon as pilates was over on Monday. :D Caffeine helps, it does.

Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] kindkit.livejournal.com at 04:00pm on 15/09/2008
No reason to feel bad--the seventeenth century had its gender issues too.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 11:27pm on 16/09/2008
I know it did, I just feel sort of odd pointing out the same or similar issues in 17th-century poetry that I see in TV shows and popular lit today. Has that little really changed?
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posted by [identity profile] airie-fairy.livejournal.com at 07:04am on 16/09/2008
Hey, you can read Donne, so you're already ahead of me. (I...is it a character flaw? I find him dull and needlessly dense.)
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 11:31pm on 16/09/2008
I actually like Donne quite a lot - except for "The Flea", which I can't read without feeling itchy - but he does get rather ornate at times, to the point where I have to read some of his poems through a few times just to figure out what he's saying on a simple, literal level. That might be why I like him, though - I have to spend so much time examining his prose that he ends up being one of the poets I read on a really thorough level.
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