#sioirsebhan

From the previous post, I think the name is written here. (the first 3 characters on the bottom)

I don't need the name translated, I just need the name for a Google search. Thanks! =)

UPDATE: Big Thank You to @sioirsebhan for the info:

"the name is 陳家儀! says she’s from 私立康橋高中 too"

Here is another angle of her performance (possibly from an earlier round of the competition?:

Her name is like a melody. Orpheus hums, feeling out the pitches. Matte crimson, or perhaps a shade quieter and warmer like embers; brilliant flecks of gold, like the tarnished, exposed ribs of his home, poking out from its ruined flesh; flashes of pearlescent silver, like drops of water, or eyes in the darkness, or the sometime glitter of night sky through the ceiling. What is Eurydice? These pitches in his throat. These colors dancing in his head.

This body, curled small and secret, in his shelter, his home-within-Home.

6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?

it’s got to be either “a school for fools” by sasha sokolov or “nights at the circus” by angela carter. i think both are masterpieces but they vary massively in what i reckon they are trying to achieve. sokolov’s book is stylistically abstract and imagistic. i think it shares something with joyce’s “ulysses” in the sense that the abstraction needs to be “translated,” so to speak, or worked over to figure it out. (obviously there are different ways of readings but i prefer to grind out details over, say, letting a book wash over me as the secondary method is a bit too mystical for me and affords certain books a sacredness that i just don’t think gets at the beating heart of the book. if anything i think it leads to lazy reading over the more active variety that grants me the very specific reasons i like reading.) it is a magical and enchanting book and is worth the work.

i think the carter book is equally transcendent but her writing is more clearly defined as the book’s surreality embodies the book’s carnivalesque themes of appearance, performance, artifice, and gender. my problem with a lot of scholarship on carter is that they too often, in my opinion, pay heed to what might be called the “content” of her work over its very specific and superlative form whereas other (LET’S JUST SAY IT) male writers are overly valued for their, shall we say, stylistic virtuosity. martin amis, for example, is forever being bandied around as the heir of all manner of great “stylists” when i think carter more faithfully and more successfully weaves together a voice. “NATC” is a perfect example of her dexterity and ingenuity as a writer (she was a MASTER intertextualist).

18: Which character from a book is the most like you?

i think i’d have to pick jude from “a little life” by hanya yanagihara. no way do i share any of his personal strife or abusive childhood experiences but i like to think of myself as thoughtful, considerate and attentive to others and i really try to extend empathy to others, even when i find it difficult to understand their decisions or predicament. but i think, like jude, i am also terrible at extending that sympathy to myself and the expectation others have of me weighs me down terribly sometimes. even if another person has negative feelings about me that i don’t feel is fair i can’t seem to help letting that affect me acutely. this is how i understand jude’s characterization anyway.

19: Which character from a book is the least like you?

Sandoz doesn’t start changing until months—years—after Rahkat.

Later, scientists and doctors will hypothesize that his body needed time to heal before it could undertake the full transformation, but no one can really pin down the reason for the delay. Emilio thinks it’s part of God’s joke. Let him get comfortable, start to adjust to being back on Earth, then deliver the punchline. What could be more hilarious, more horrific, than turning him into one of the aliens he failed to save, the ones he has recurring nightmares about?

1) nona the ninth - tasmyn muir 2) greywaren - maggie stiefvater 3) disorientation - elain hsieh chou 4) aesthetics of excess: the art and politics of black and latina embodiment - jillian hernandez 5) lote - shola von reinhold 6) remembering our intimacies - jamaica heolimeleikalani osorio 7) little manila is in the heart - dawn bohulano mabalon 8) critique of pure reason - immanuel kant 9) the hurting kind - ada limon

that’s...four novels, three recent academic press books, one philosophy text, and one poetry text. fairly on brand for me.

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

both of these are favorites, because i love dostoyevsky and i read these at a formative time of my teenage years. the brothers karamazov is, of course, brilliant - i remember vividly reading most of it at the local skate park while my brother practiced kick flips, and the scene with the devil has stuck in my head. also for some reason i was way more patient with Zosima's whole section than with the section on the priest in Les Miz, maybe because Russian Orthodoxy. the idiot is SO underrated and i've been meaning to give it a reread because i feel like i didn't get to appreciate everything about it when i was younger. BUT that final scene with Myshkin and Nastasya's body is something i often think about - the build up was masterful and intense, and i haven't felt that on edge in a book very often. also i am kind of convinced that bryan fuller ripped off pieces of the idiot for s3 of hannibal and no one can dissuade me. the idiot always intrigued me because it feels almost like dostoyevsky is...calling into question everything about his faith? but at the end he just kind of sits with all the contradictions, instead of trying to justify them or using them as a reason to leave.

22. how do you organize your books?

given that currently all my books are either in cardboard boxes or made into precarious towers around my bedroom...i don’t organize them at all. but uh, in the context of bookshelves, usually by aesthetic or with related authors grouped together! i do not alphabetize, because i can’t do spine color-clashes, and i don’t really categorize genres because that’s a lot of mental work. 

28. what books can always make you smile?

my copy of the hobbit that my dad gave me when i was like...six or seven?...for the nostalgia factor. currently the copy of working on a song that the gf gave me for xmas, which i’m saving to read in one fell swoop.

30. what character do you connect with the most?

this is difficult, because i feel like it’s different characters at different points in my life, though all of them have...things in common. maybe the first was Frodo Baggins (which in hindsight explains...so much of the Anxiety and Depression). the latest is definitely Harrowhark Nonagesimus: maybe i was supposed to identify with her butch cavalier, but i very much feel the weight of responsibility (the one who Gets Out, who makes it possible for others to live), the total social awkwardness, the love of research to a point of obsession, the religious devotion that somehow also veers into strange territory. i WILL say that unlike Harrow, i can definitely cook and also i don’t disdain flavors, because i might have some white anglo ancestry but this b!tch loves their cholula. (although maybe i’m speaking too strongly, since my “comfort food” is plain saltines.)