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[malsperanza]

Things I did not get done yesterday:

1) Did not get glass cut to replace cutting board

2) Did not buy new spigot for kitchen sink

3) Did not get to gym (day 397 of not getting to gym; am rapidly coming to sound more like Bridget Jones than is at all funny)

4) Did not see Master & Commander

5) Did not return CDs to Tower Records

6) Did not write exceedingly perceptive & thought-provoking response to black_dog's e. p. & t.-p. comment

Things I did yesterday:

1) Purchased two ickle wee signed Spiderwicks for unXmas stockings; saw blackholly whose arm had, impressively, not fallen off yet

2) Purchased 7 more CDs at Tower records; will now have to return 12 CDs

3) Endless difficult family stuff; endless and tiresome and not done yet *sigh*

4) Stopped by City Bakery and saw clio and epicyclical and ali_wildgoose and tromboneborges and a number of other people who were very polite and patient, considering; discussed tater tots, petit larceny, and how to complete graduate school by auditing everything; came away much the wiser

5) Saw some Other People about whom the less said the better

Will now go and fetch brain back from pawnshop.

*scrabbles madly in pockets for pawn ticket*

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I was reading your post and black_dog's response and loving it but realizing I had really nothing to add.:-)

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

*rolls on the floor, laughing*

All right, all right, when I find my self on a list alopngside replacing a spigot, I just want to say, no, no, no! Do not waste your time and brain cells replying to my maunderings! I was genuinely curious about theory and differences in the way we read, and I guess I was sort of talking aloud to clarify my own thoughts, but I swear I didn't mean to turn this into a seminar paper! I actually got much of that out of my system in a splurge of book buying in the theory section of Borders the other night, so now I am happily curled up with everyone from Hirsch (boo! hiss!) to Jauss and Iser, and I can dig out my de Man and Derrida and Stanley Fish (both early and late) from a box anytime I want to. So I am sitting here, eating a bagel with cream cheese because I skipped shopping tonight before realizing that certain people were going to post culinary torture scenes on their LJ's (I believe that "showing the implements" was traditionally the first stage . . . ) and I am happily reading my books. And I see you like Jerome K Jerome, which is a whole other conversation some time!

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Rest assured, this is not a seminar paper; this is my favorite topic of conversation in the world.

I have to replace the kitchen spigot because I am currently wasting a precious natural resource which is leaking out, running down the drain, and doing no one any good at all; items #2 and #6 are not, therefore, quite as unrelated as they may appear. Some small household maintenance tasks turn out to be more important than one realized.

*Eyes Jauss and Iser warily; feebly brandishes Bakhtin, who squeeks and goes limp*

Actually, I have read very little recent theory, except Eco. (I come to reception theory via art history, where it is rampant, overused, and I think poorly understood.) So worry not: there is a pleasantly subjective and amateur discussion ahead of us, in which we will fail to decide whether the Author, the Reader, the Text, or the World is master and commander of all meaning. I liked the questions you asked; I have some to ask in return.

Meanwhile, have you come across a veryverymeta little LJ called anthropomor_fic? Drabbles are posted on such ships as Love/Beauty, City/Stars, Pure Math/Applied Math, Fic/Beta, and (via The Onion) Wisconsin/Minnesota. So Reader/Book is in good company.

Moresoon.

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh I wasn't complaining about being "unimportant!" :) Just the opposite. I was terrified that I might unconsciously be on a list of things that had become a chore. You know: take out the trash, clean the oven, paint the basement *sigh* and then reply to that damn muddleheaded comment to be polite.

I go off on these tangents sometimes and I do count on people to tell me, gently, when I'm boring them out of their skulls. Sorry for any misunderstanding!

And Bakhtin is in my box, too! The sort of bluish-purple one, with his face on the cover. I have never read him, so I look forward to hearing you make him gibber and squeak at me. But while I really did go out the other day and bought the bunch of theory books I described, I was not exactly citing them as examples of expertise, but rather of my own eccentric way of turning every issue into a book-buying spree. For all I know about them, I might as well sacrifice a goat and call on Elegba and Eshu and Shango and the rest of the voodoo pantheon instead.

So I am immensely looking forward to a "pleasantly subjective and amateur discussion" and am delighted to have found someone who would enjoy that as much as I would.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

*runs out and buys 36 books on Shango, Elegba, Candomble, Santeria, and voodoo*