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Another all-nighter essay. I really don't care about Peacock's or Shelley's thoughts on poetry, but I have to compare The Four Ages with A Defense of Poetry. I'm just glad next year I'm signed up for courses which all involve literature written in the 20th century, (with the exception of a mid-level Phil class on Nietzche/Deleuze, Neitzche being a 19th century fella). Romanticism is...
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hanke:
i love poetry
robotsatemyhair:
I... hate... Shelley.

There. I said it.


I had a babysitter who would pet my back every afternoon while she watched TV at that weirdly low volume that some people watch TV. I was four, and I'd sit still for hours.
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Also, in idle contemplation I thought about possibly getting this as a tattoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klee,_paul,_angelus_novus,_1920.jpg

It's based off of Walter Benjamin's analysis of the painting in his "Theses On The Philosophy of History":

"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his...
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Went over to a friend's place last weekend and got a whiff of Mount Kimbie: http://youtu.be/7SfFInoSotg

Really getting into them. Made to Stray is such a good song, as soon as the subdued organ comes on, I'm just blissin'.

Started getting my some of my poems into local mtl/Toronto zine circulation. After a few years of laying low it feels good to be in a...
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Four legged indestructible maggot-bot.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/freaky-boneless-robot-walks-on-soft-legs

http://youtu.be/2DsbS9cMOAE


But look! Humans already do this much better: http://youtu.be/ZpWATMtTPkk

Just deploy that guy into an earthquake zone.