http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ walking in 2 rooms en-us 2005-12-18T12:21:00-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/034407.html (sitting on the couch) She: They want more words. (sigh) He: Well, that’s your job, isn’t it? ( smoothing the plastic wrap over the window) …this is so staticky. She: That’s not a word. He: What? Staticky? She: Yes,... 34407@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ final project 2005-12-18T12:21:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/034229.html ok guys, just gotta mention: another storm on a full moon night, a change in barometric pressure, and, as always, even though i'm exhausted, today i felt great, had an energy burst all day long, and had mental and physical... 34229@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ drift wood 2005-12-15T00:37:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/034207.html I HAVEN’T BEEN LUCID FOR QUITE A FEW WEEKS: AN INTROSPECTIVE ESSAY ON IDENTITY AND THE INNER-DIALECTIC. The publicity of privacy At a humanistic level, I don’t believe that identity is contained solely in one person. Every person that... 34207@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-14T20:11:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/034035.html I’ve been casually perusing Claude Levi-Strauss’ Look, Listen, Read lately. He makes a comment about Diderot which struck me as both amusing and irritating, depending on the context you imagined to go with it. Strauss says: Diderot was so receptive... 34035@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-12T21:03:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/034031.html In one of my classes friend and fellow grad student just presented her paper on the influence of Scheherazade from the Arabian nights on other writers, particularly in the 19th century. She talked a lot about the use of... 34031@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-12T20:29:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033950.html She: Hello, thank you for doing this interview. Her: Not a problem. She: There is a freedom and a danger in not knowing who exactly you is. Her: Yes. I have a general idea but I can never be... 33950@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ final project 2005-12-10T18:44:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033944.html I was reading last week's Sunday NY Times and read two articles that related to my school work. I really liked that because so often I feel like I'm spending my time on a lot of scholarly "exercises," so it's... 33944@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-10T16:10:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033927.html The subjects of spam have been catching my eye for awhile. They are always so random. I wonder if there is a method, or just the spammer's perogative. a few of today's examples: go complain on gusset pinewood and fill... 33927@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ blog digestion 2005-12-10T11:08:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033732.html In Plato's Pharmacy Derrida writes: “Hence the dialectician will sometimes write, amass monuments, collect hupomnemata, just for fun. But he will do so while still putting his products at the service of dialectics and in order to leave a trace... 33732@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ final project 2005-12-07T19:03:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033729.html Plato's Phaedrus Socrates: I agree--if, that is, the arguments that come forward to speak for oratory should give testimony that it is an art. Now I seem, as it were, to hear some arguments advancing to give their evidence... 33729@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-07T18:54:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033689.html She: Sometimes external institutions put a metaphorical gun to our heads. . Him: Yes, but sometimes we hold that gun there ourselves. . She: Well, if you look at it that way, we are always the ones to do it... 33689@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ final project 2005-12-07T09:52:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033687.html “I’ve never been here before,� he whispered. “Don’t worry,� she answered. “It’s a piece of cake.� For 12 minutes they stared at the apparatus, unsure how to master it. Then, at the 13th minute she put on her fez and... 33687@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ final project 2005-12-07T09:12:15-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033459.html Wouldn't it be helpful to be an emotionless android, just to get through the "work like a machine" parts of school. Thoughtful engagement under duress. that's going to be my next thesis.... 33459@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ drift wood 2005-12-04T08:11:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033458.html Sometimes, the special appeal of text, especially word processed text, is that we can disappear into it. There is no revealing handwriting or physical information about the speaker, we see just the words in their standard uniform. On the web... 33458@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-04T08:10:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/033457.html At a more humanistic level, I don’t believe that identity is contained solely in one person. Every person that you encounter becomes a part of your internal makeup to lesser and greater degrees. What you glean from other people is... 33457@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wood0072/first/ ESSAY 2 2005-12-04T07:36:30-06:00