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epitome of incomprehensibility
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1. E_o_i now has working Internet at home. This is useful when she has to look up terms like "deictic" and "parataxis" for the essay she is writing. It is not useful, however, when she is lured by Google or IMDB or everything2 or, well, blather.
2. But blather is a favourite.
3. There was an ad for blogging on this site and getting paid according to how many people read your posts, but there is a fee of $12 per month. So one could actually end up losing money. Pah.
4. Money isn't everything. It is an interesting variable, however.
5. Poetry workshop (class). One person wrote, as a critique, that she would like to see more of my "palpitating heart". Not literally, one would assume.
6. Celine Dion's heart will go on. Mine is mortal. And afraid. Not of Celine Dion, though, at least not that much.
7. If e_o_i really wanted to be mechanical and heartless, however, it might want to refer to itself as "it", instead of "she".
8. There should be a gender-neutral pronoun in English besides the impersonal "it". It would be useful.
9. Back to grammar again. When "it" doesn't actually refer to anything, as in the last sentence of number 8 or in the expression "It's raining", technically that's called an expletive. I find this funny. I shall have to stop myself from going around saying, "It off! What the it!"
10. Swearing. Sometimes swearing can be a euphemism for meaning. It is best used sparingly, for effect. (I.e., fuck profanity.) But I am afraid that we cannot go back to the days of A Catcher in the Rye when it had more power for both humour and shock-n-awe (deliberate anachronism, as well as an expression I have appropriated for my own civilian purposes). Even Holden got upset by the f-words scrawled on the wall. (A rhyme. Scrawl wall. Poetic.)
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME.
All right, all right. Goody night and sleepy tight.
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Doar
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e_o_i is female?????
Jebus, I have to get this gender scanner recalibrated....again.
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and before anyone exhibits helpful pointing outism, that EOI is AG, I realized that 10 seconds after my post.
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Is it an it or isn't it an it?
Is is is but isn't it.
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anne-girl
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EOI most certainly is not AG
(she's a much better writer than me, to start)
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Doar
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really? dammit...there goes my powers of deduction.
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e_o_i
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:)
Actually, anne-girl is a friend of mine, so I can second the claim that she is not me. I'm barely on speaking terms with myself.
...anne-girl, you're also a MUCH better programmer & mathematician than I am. Credit where credit is due...
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e_o_i
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If e_o_i is exhibiting bloggish tendencies she should be doing so on a more frequent basis. Else it spoils the whole premise.
I'm a little grumpy right now, actually. Nothing serious. I got a C in a course I didn't expect to get a C in; the Habs are out of the playoffs now, not that I'm usually a hockey fan but I'm sure they did it this time deliberately to annoy me; and I've diagnosed in myself an unhealthy tendency to make lists.
On the other hand, I've learned about The Correct Usage of the Semicolon. It can be used to separate independent related clauses; it is very good for that. It can also be used to separate items in a list when the items contain commas within themselves.
Good gob in blevin, I'm starting to bore even myself. I'll go to sleep now.
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parataxicab driver
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i love parataxis; i relish its flavors.
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oh, and i love you, e_o_i
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e_o_i
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It's good to be loved. Especially by linguistically souped-up vehicles. It warms my heart.
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e_o_i again
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By the way, when I first saw "parataxis" I immediately thought "pair of taxis". Sad, very sad.
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What exists out there in the wide, wide University?
This morning I got an email telling me that the course I had registered for had changed times, and it now conflicted with another class I had. So I get my course calender to look for one to replace it, but hardly any are at the right time. I try and sign up for this Joyce course (yes, the Jamesistan Joycestan guy I've been blathering about today) and apparently it doesn't exist this year, contrary to what the calendar says.
So now, after all that, I'm registered in Twentieth Century Writing by Women, which doesn't look that bad. There's likely to be some Virginia Woolf in there, and while she's not as madly inventive as her buddy James (who shares the same birth and death year, incidentally), she was the one who revolutionized the sentence. Beautiful, beautiful sentences, and I am not being sarcastic. Read To the Lighthouse... V. Woolf, Feminist and Sentence Revolutionary. Why not?
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e_o_i with the stats
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1882-1941
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And why have I not been here lately? Well, I have been trying to fool myself with the illusion that I'm busy. So far it's working.
I stayed up all night last night, finishing (the so-far-good copy of) a story I had to distribute to a) 1 prof and b) 10 students for a critique next week. That caused me to keep falling asleep in my afternoon class, which amused the guy sitting next to me. It's always nice to bring a little laughter to this dark world.
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