#ipanoptes

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Finally falling into a steady pace of reading again—lost in the labyrinth of Borges’ intellect. 

#ipanoptes #studyblr #currently reading #reading

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08042020

Thank gods for Ulysses Annotated. Every little reference has a note or commentary. Don Gifford and Rober Seidman created a great resource. Allows more time for reading. 

p. 144/771 

source: iPanoptes

#studyblr #research #Ulysses #JamesJoyce #curriculum #iPanoptes

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07262020

Spent midday on the outside porch listening to the rain and taking notes across disciplines. Making pathways through Joyce’s Ulysses.

p: 95/771

source: iPanoptes

#studyblr #curriculum #with/without #English literature #James Joyce #Ulysses #dark academia #iPanoptes

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{08122020}

Building connections between Ancients and Moderns. What would Nietzsche say to Lucretius or Plato? Where would Stephen Dedalus be without the Greeks? 

source: iPanoptes

#curriculum #with/without #iPanoptes #Lucretius #epicurean #Ulysses #James Joyce #studyblr

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04082012

An image from a sense of past security. I could sit here for hours reading in the shade of my parents’ backgarden. 

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#studyblr #darkacademia #garden #reading #EdwardianSummer #2012 #iPanoptes

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07212020

Oh, James Joyce, — what a leviathan you have created! 

source: iPanoptes

#studyblr #James Joyce #Ulysses #dark academia #curriculum #with/without #iPanoptes

[ipanoptes]

{08292020}

The effect of death upon those that live is always strange, and often terrible in the havoc it makes with innocent desires (32).

—Virginia Woolf, "Reminiscences,"    Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings

#Woolf #Moments of Being #iPanoptes #death/life #studyblr

[ipanoptes]

07252020

The moment was just right. Too many years I have tried to capture an image of these birds in flight. But today, finally: a hesitant leap and then awkward beauty skimming the surface of the subdivision’s landscape. 

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#walking #iPanoptes #with/without #crane

[ipanoptes]

07232020

Something for the 2020-2021 World Literature semester: The Book of Job from the King James Version of the Bible contains a soliloquy on wisdom.

source: iPanoptes

#studyblr #curriculum #Job #KJVBible #WorldLit #PrufrocksBlues #iPanoptes

[ipanoptes]

{08192020}

No surprise. It was bound to happen. Ulysses was put on hold. I discovered some material lacking in the opening weeks of class, so double-downed on reading/notes. Having finished Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, moved to finalizing Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things.  Ironic how these all fit together in the long run. A giant library-labyrinth of interconnected texts. 

source: iPanoptes 

#curriculum #Fall2020 #with/without #@iPanoptes

[ipanoptes]

{09092020}

Bur Centaurs never existed at all, nor at any time can creatures with double nature and two-fold body exist composed of this and that stock could be sufficiently equal (V.878-881).

source: iPanoptes

#with/without #studyblr #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #De Rerum Natura #Walter Englert

[ipanoptes]

07172020

Missing the days when one could visit the coffeeshops and sit for hours reading/writing. The current week has been a rollercoaster of productivity. Some progress. And then some unprogress. Unwork. Unpoetry. Unreading.

The ghost of Keats left a quote on the above page: “Heard melodies are sweet. but those unheard / Are sweeter.”

source: ipanoptes

#studyblr #writeblr #poetryblr #notes #Keats

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07182020

Here’s the question: The Republic or The Symposium? 

R: formal lecture— politics, art in society, definition of justice S: informal drinking party— erotic love, inspiration & motivation

Source: iPanoptes

#Plato #Republic #Symposium #studyblr #curriculum

[ipanoptes]

{08272020}

Last night finished Book Four of The Nature of Things. This section so far exists as my favorite, Lucretius falling into the topics of dreams and psychology of love— I’ve had to highlight every line, grouping subtopics within subtopics. I swear he was on coffee when this portion was composed:

“to the extent that each breed of animals is wilder, / the more it is necessary for them to vent in their sleep. / But diverse creatures of the air take to flight and all at once with their wings / break the silence of the groves of the gods at nighttime, / if in their light sleep hawks to offer / battles and fights as they fly and pursue them eagerly” (4.1005-1010). 

source: iPanoptes

#with/without #curriculum #Lucretius #Epicurean

[ipanoptes]

{08122020}

Feeling overwhelmed. So many (too many) different ways to fit this material into class.

source: iPanoptes 

#studyblr #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #curriculum #with/without

[ipanoptes]

{08072020}

The orderly beginning. I had owned this copy for a number of years and kept putting off actually reading it— 

source: iPanoptes

#studyblr #with/without #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #Atoms! #curriculum