I could never give you all of the daylight you wanted, but here's some of the dusk you need.
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Dee, 22. I am a writer, traveller, tea-lover, music obsessive, and feminist originally from Victoria, British Columbia. Foul-mouthed college student with a penchant for enthusiasm, poetry, rambling sentences, and intelligent pop music.
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words & writing, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Waits, poetry, feminism, tea, journalism, (class) politics, tattoos, The Indelicates, hockey (Canucks, Oilers, sort-of-Blackhawks), gigs, skylines, cities at night, cities in general, young adult literature, Dessa, The Decemberists, Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos, Angela Carter, Catherynne Valente, China Mieville, Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, (candid) photography, wine/gin/rum, intelligent criticism, Charlie Brooker, Joey Comeau, Janelle Monae, David Bowie, mix tapes, street art, outsider art, tea, theatre musicmusicmusic, and a whole rotating host of other obsessions that I can't think of at the moment.
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Blog title and sidebar quote from Derrick C. Brown's Born In the Year of the Butterfly Knife. URL from the great William Shakespeare - Ariel's song in Act I, Scene ii of The Tempest (Full fathom five, thy father lies).
January 28th
11:28 PM
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a course against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history"
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-Octavio Paz

the prof that i’ve already grown absurdly fond of (literature (read: semiotics/”aaaaall the theory”) and popular culture) put this quote on our course outline.  apparently he does so for every class.  i read it and just thought “yes.”  why read, love, study literature, i’ve been asked so many times?  why don’t you get a useful degree?  i answer:  see the above.


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