Thursday, October 12, 2006

stacks

the librarian said, "i hope you ate your wheaties" after she made two trips to the hold shelf for me. ya, i'm going to need all the vitamins and minerals i can get to plow through titles like "when nationalism began to HATE" and "between dignity and DESPAIR". i have the grad school bibliography in my possession once again and am not sure how i feel about it. it's at once satisfying to be on track with this thing and reminiscent of wanting to throw my books down my stairs on clark street. so far no books have met their violent gravitational fate, but there's still plenty of time. and i havne't even opened any of them yet. maybe tomorrow while i'm bored at the farmstand i'll dip into the problem of polish modernity and see how i feel.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think, there is, an off color Raising Arizona esque
Polish light bulb joke in there
Somewhere.
But I, being not so up-to-date in my knowledge
Of the problems of Polish modernity, am not
Up to the task
To make it.

By the way, when the librarian at the front desk
Said: “I hope you ate your wheaties”, was she
Referring to, do you think, the physical mass
Of your reading material, or the cognitive
Weightiness of the task?

Anonymous said...

"violent gravitational fate" ... NICE!

-- Minesweeper