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BLEH
there is now a vague possibility that i will pass the class. did i do all the work? no. i turned in two incomplete assignments worth a total of 50 points and think what i did is worth, like, 20 combined. but that's Still A Passing Grade, Apparently, if attendance works the way the syllabus said it did, and if not then my teacher can fudge things if she wants or i can fail the class.
how hard is it to just do the damn assignment.
really fucking hard actually?? it's 2am and i don't want to
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Faery-Fruit by Nell Brinkley, 1915
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It's probably inevitable (even necessary) that the people who devote their lives to becoming as good as possible at some particular art or trade or w/e also develop a horrible outsized and self-congratulatory conception of how important and vital and fundamentally human it is. Doesn't make listening to them wax poetic about it in an interview any less insufferable though.
Okay not to be a hater about a book I haven't read but like, this is the blurb for Goodreads' 'most popular new fantasy'
and I mean - this is not any sort of moral issue or anything. But I really struggle to conceive of a how this could be written in a way that doesn't make it transparently clear that its main goal is pandering to and flattering the egos of its imagined audience.
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I just misspelled the word "qualified" and said "I'm not quailfied enough to do this"
A quailfied person:
In early July, a dispute began between two writers; Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Charity and Sylvia; A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America,
An absolutely wild ride with a final twist that objectively doesn’t matter but will make you do a serious double take.
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anyway… if anyone is looking to improve their reading & writing skills, i highly recommend this article by celine nguyen, which analyses the opening paragraphs of good essays to understand how and why they work. focuses on nonfiction but could apply generally i think
sappho translations really have the rumi translations problem
all i am saying is
the grammarian Aelius Herodianus in the 2nd century CE writes "οἱ δὲ Αἰολεῖς... ποθέω ποθήω οἷον καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι", which means "and the Aeolians... [spell] potheō 'I long' as pothēō, for example, 'and I long and I seek'"
and the scholars look at that and say "the dialect sounds like Sappho and Alcaeus, and those four words sound like the sort of thing that Sappho would write" and they slap a fragment number on it and say that that's Sappho Fragment 36
and Dan Beachy-Quick translates it "and longingly I long and searchingly I search…"
and different people do different things with those four words and some of what they write is good poetry and someone on instagram attributes "longingly I long and searchingly I search" to Sappho
and is that Sappho? is that really Sappho?
#sappho#i think sort of like. yes it is sappho atp inasmuch as the iliad or odyssey is homer#and ‘in the crooks of your body i find my religion’ or whatever is sappho too. in my humble theoretical opinion#obviously this isn’t a perfect comparison but i think if we’re looking for a stable and original and authentic text of sappho#we’re going to miss a lot of what’s interesting about the body of work attributed to sappho. including translations#classics
@kallistoi i really appreciate your making this point!
as you might imagine from my description of the scholarly practice of compiling fragments in this post, i do think that the work of "sappho" as we know it is a construction of not only literary translators but also scholars and the ancient textual tradition itself. this body of work was very likely not all composed by the same author, and the ancient editors who assembled it may also have had inclusion criteria like "well, the dialect is aeolic and the subject matter sounds kind of feminine". (a version of this also applies to every other archaic greek poet and every other fragmentary writer.)
i think i would phrase things differently from you because i think the irreparable instability and inauthenticity of the sapphic corpus is all the more reason to distinguish carefully between the different layers of the unstable inauthentic sappho. i love fragments and i think it's always valuable to pay attention to where our fragments come from. and i love translations and i think it's always valuable to pay attention to where our translations come from, and to value the translator's work as creative work, and to notice how it always relies on prior notions of the text being translated.
Translated from the Polish by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter.
translator's note: this translation sucks just learn the original language for fucks sake
single funniest entry in Star Trek predicting the future
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bleh part ?/forever
my teacher does not want to fail me and extended the homework deadline. JESUS. FINE.
i have emailed her "hey if i do this amount of work by the syllabus it means i pass, right?"
so hopefully she will email back "yes, it definitely does!"
and in the meantime i have to like. do that work
- revision✅️
- annotated bib (locate 8 websites,✅️ COPY THEIR INFO x8, sort into the Format, translate toc, scream and die, etc)
- exercise 2 (find annoying passage, translate both passages, write questions)
- exercise 3 (finish reading, decide on hard passage + finalize relevant decision, translate passages, write intro, write questions)
also today
- breakfast✅️
- game with friend <3✅️
- email re: hey is my math correct✅️
- get groceries✅️ + WALK HOME✅️
- dressed etc✅️
- laundry would be AMAZING (pretreat dress stains, load change dry put away)
- cook + eat dinner with roomie!! <3
love that the email reply was like "i can't do math for you, just turn in everything even if incomplete."
...i don't understand and also i'm gonna do that AFTER i do my plan
- submit incomplete assignments x20?? jesus. hate that.
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