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Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; âAnd as far as Abu Ghosh,â

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âThe fabric of the world has torn. I cannot stitch it back together.â
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
can someone make a dark academia post romanticizing online school? iâm struggling
What I thought reading as an English major would be: Ah, let me relax under this tree in a warm sweater and read this classic piece of literature.
What reading as an English major actually is: I have two days to read this 500 page novel about a bunch of horrible people who I think are all cheating on each other but I'm not sure because this writing style is nearly incomprehensible.
I am fully aware and in full possession of myself. [âŚ] I have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or even known;
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 6th, 1926 (via enthymesis)

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â[P]oetry holds â itâs like a â you can hold what canât be said. It canât be paraphrased. It canât be translated. The great poetry I love holds the mystery of on being alive. It holds it in a kind of basket of words that feels inevitable. Thereâs great, great, great prose, gorgeous prose. You and I could probably quote some right now. Poetry has a kind of trancelike quality still. It has the quality of a spell still.â
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Marie Howe, On Being
Reading  -  Walter Sautter , 1950
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âI need to feel like me again, (âŚ) I miss myself so much.âÂ
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker
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Views from my run; it is so quiet in the early morning. Spend too much time thinking about the way this morning light warms through all these empty spaces, glitters in the river, makes my head uncluttered

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âThe interpreter, without actually erasing or rewriting the text, is altering it. But he canât admit to doing this. He claims to be only making it intelligible, by disclosing its true meaning.â
â âAgainst Interpretationâ (1966), Susan Sontag
âMemory / is another name for ghosts and their awful hunger.â
â Eugene Gloria, from âApple,â My Favorite Warlord (via lifeinpoetry)
the thesis progress journal
itâs all based on louise desalvoâs concept of a process journal for writers, from her book âthe art of slow writingâ which i read way back in 2014 but has stayed with me all this time. she based that concept on sue graftonâs journal, which âstands as a record of the conversation she has with herself about the work in progress.â desalvo talks about her own process journal : âto plan a project, list books i want to read, list subjects i want to write about, capture insight about my work in progress, discuss my relationship to my work (whatâs working and whatâs not, whether i need to make changes to my writing schedule, how iâm feeling about the work)âÂ
her view of the concept is so interesting and can easily be applied to grad school :Â âkeeping a process journal helps us understand that our writing is important work. we value it enough to plan, reflect, and evaluate our work. a process journal is an invaluable record of our work patterns, our feelings about our work, our responses to ourselves as writers, and our strategies for dealing with difficulties and challenges.â
she says, and i quote : âour progress journals are where we engage in the nonjudgmental, reflective witnessing of our work. here, we work at defining ourselves as active, engaged, responsible, patient writers.â and like ???? yes, go off louise!
every week i make an entry with my three to five priorities. since i currently still have seminars, my entire week cannot be dedicated to my thesis, so these priorities allow me to really focus on specific things. they can be bigger or smaller depending on the amount of time i have to work on my thesis.
every day i work on my thesis, i make an entry. i try to answer two questions : âwhat did i do that day to make progress on my thesis?â as well as âhow am i feeling & what i can do to feel better?â i also choose two to five specific tasks to achieve that day and write about the progress. for example, if my task is reading an article, iâll write it down, check the box once i do it and write a summary of the âexperienceâ (how was the article, was it useful for my research, should i read more of that authorâs work, etc.) that way, i can look back at previous tasks, know what happened and learn from it.
i also use the journal almost like a bullet journal (the OG kind) with ongoing lists of important things. of course, there are some to do lists here and there (even though i prefer having my comprehensive task list on todoist), but itâs mostly things like
names of people who have helped me so i can thank them in my thesis
call numbers of books to borrow or archives to consult
research hypothesesÂ
things to look for in the archives i consult
questions to ask my professor/advisor/archivist/etc.
issues that need to be fixed in my thesis
books/articles to read
additional things to research
i also use it as a regular notebooks for all things thesis. one of my seminars this semester is a methodology course, so i take notes in my journal as reference. i also sometimes will write some reading notes if i donât have my computer on me, such as key quotes or arguments. also, all of my notes from meetings/calls/emails with my advisor are put in the journal, as well as a any pertinent meeting notes (with an archivist, fellow student, my mom, etc.) lastly, sometimes it just becomes a catch all for brainstorm sessions and random thoughts.
for me, this thesis progress journal is the best way to take a step back from the actual work and reflect on what iâm doing, good or bad, and what i can do to make things better, but most importantly, it allows me to understand my progress.
âI still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You canât really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, âIf you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then weâll talk.â All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People donât want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.â
â Ray Bradbury (born 100 years ago today⌠on 22 August 1920)

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âLiterary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.â
â C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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