tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post8642406230232086301..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: Sorry to keep whinging about end of the semester issueslucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-25242000772491258292006-11-03T10:46:00.000+11:002006-11-03T10:46:00.000+11:00Sometimes I do regret not going with a slightly sn...Sometimes I do regret not going with a slightly snazzier, more unusual, and less reality-based Internet name. But everything I came up with sounded either insufferably lame or pretentious. Feminist righteous anger produced Kali_the_destroyer. Yikes. Childhood nickname produced Cucumber. Adult nickname produced 'Katester'. Name of first pet produced Chewie. Ah, no.<br /><br />Sigh. In many ways,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-31048760992563295122006-11-03T08:07:00.000+11:002006-11-03T08:07:00.000+11:00Can't remember, Laura. Evidently something ideolog...Can't remember, Laura. Evidently something ideologically unsound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-50179034295730058352006-11-02T21:59:00.000+11:002006-11-02T21:59:00.000+11:00The night before my matric biology exam I learnt t...The night before my matric biology exam I learnt to say the alphabet backwards. So I think what you are doing - reading books which interest, stimulate and perhaps motivate you - is extremely productive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-33258044319965504992006-11-02T21:40:00.000+11:002006-11-02T21:40:00.000+11:00That you're into, or that you are?
Tim, what were...That you're into, or that you are?<br /><br />Tim, what were you saying to make people think you were Tim Blair?lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-76038029666174679882006-11-02T21:37:00.000+11:002006-11-02T21:37:00.000+11:00Blood Meridian goes rather well if you're into the...Blood Meridian goes rather well if you're into the kind of Ahab-like, enormous, bald vigilantes that I am.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-71738861112228501992006-11-02T21:21:00.000+11:002006-11-02T21:21:00.000+11:00You're right, Laura, it's no fun being a blogging ...You're right, Laura, it's no fun being a blogging Tim. More than once I've been abused in comment threads by people who thought I was Tim Blair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-19227621397773349912006-11-02T18:53:00.000+11:002006-11-02T18:53:00.000+11:00Kate, twould only be a problem if you read Terry P...Kate, twould only be a problem if you read Terry P to further your knowledge of magic (cf Unseen University). & appropo of absolutely nothing, this week's screenshot is screaming out ofr a caption competition. Oh poo try typing this after two glasses of cheap publisher launch white.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-33929940008838793202006-11-02T18:48:00.000+11:002006-11-02T18:48:00.000+11:001st Kate, related but not quite relevant is a good...1st Kate, related but not quite relevant is a good thing, if you're lucky enough to be able to keep it under control. I'm not always. But the kind of scholarly writing I like best and aspire to being able to do one day is full of marginally relevant but amazing little sidetracks and tangents. <br /><br />Sophie, what is your thesis about? That octopus kid costume on your blog is excellent. lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-40059444818837847512006-11-02T18:20:00.000+11:002006-11-02T18:20:00.000+11:00Also, and AT LAST: BAZLOTTO! W33T!!!Also, and AT LAST: BAZLOTTO! W33T!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-24347109076736938982006-11-02T18:18:00.000+11:002006-11-02T18:18:00.000+11:00I'm afraid that after reading the entire Borderlan...I'm afraid that after reading the entire Borderlands Trilogy in a week I felt so depressed it took me not one but two Terry Pratchett novels to cheer up. That's not meant to be a negative comment, because I agree that McCarthy is brilliant. (Yes, I read Terry Pratchett novels to make myself feel better, and I am only slightly defensive about this.)<br /><br />At least your end of semester Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-25541425295929698932006-11-02T12:39:00.000+11:002006-11-02T12:39:00.000+11:00I spent Honours (St Patrick/Dante/medievel concept...I spent Honours (St Patrick/Dante/medievel conceptions of the afterlife) reading about medieval conceptions of sexuality. I'm very good at finding something related, but not quite relevant. It still feels like you're working then.<br /><br />My Mum cites a classmate who thought SwotVac was a good time to read War & Peace (she studied Latin & Geography, so it definitely wasn't on the reading list)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-2973430505445486742006-11-02T10:45:00.000+11:002006-11-02T10:45:00.000+11:00TimT, that's the original Gothic novel. She starte...TimT, that's the original Gothic novel. She started it all. <br /><br />The reading-while-you-have-to-do-other-stuff is classic scholar displacement behaviour. I spent most of the three years of thesis-writing (on Australian fiction) compulsively reading all of the letters, diaries, fiction and nonfiction of Virginia Woolf and everyone connected with her. I would have written a much better thesisKerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-60720553154195534692006-11-02T09:52:00.000+11:002006-11-02T09:52:00.000+11:00I don't know.I don't know.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-68985219710771336252006-11-01T23:21:00.000+11:002006-11-01T23:21:00.000+11:00Maybe it's a common thing? This reading when there...Maybe it's a common thing? This reading when there's a thesis/essay deadline coming up? <br /><br />When I was finishing my dissertation at uni (I had about two weeks to go), in a fit of obsession with gothic melodramas, I went out to the Co-Op bookstore and bought 'The Mysteries of Udolpho', by Anne Radcliffe. It's a huge book, about 600 odd pages (VERY odd pages). <br /> <br />I told myself TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-79481333307947590812006-11-01T22:23:00.000+11:002006-11-01T22:23:00.000+11:00Tim - until about a year and a half ago I thought ...Tim - until about a year and a half ago I thought he was a lady. (Carson McCullers.)lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-7795734320227154362006-11-01T22:22:00.000+11:002006-11-01T22:22:00.000+11:00Bernice that's bad news.
I'll try to find a rej...Bernice that's bad news. <br /><br />I'll try to find a rejected review copy languishing in some forgotten corner of eBay.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-9793127728282030382006-11-01T21:57:00.000+11:002006-11-01T21:57:00.000+11:00I only just discovered Cormac McCarthy two days ag...I only just discovered Cormac McCarthy two days ago. All The Pretty Horses is great. I now have a copy of The Road and it looks even better. Why didn't somebody tell me he was so good?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-87950647111144408832006-11-01T21:19:00.000+11:002006-11-01T21:19:00.000+11:00Not being released in Aust til January -so much fo...Not being released in Aust til January -so much for the free and untrammelled flow of information in the information ageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-48134420697480355162006-11-01T20:17:00.000+11:002006-11-01T20:17:00.000+11:00I had a look at The Road yesterday, and it's defin...I had a look at The Road yesterday, and it's definitely on my (near) future reading list.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.com