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Why I didn't want to find his love letters in my copy of East of Eden
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by
junkpile
Tue Jul 18 2000 at 19:40:59
Because I never fucking understood
East of Eden
. These
beautiful educated people
sit around and smoke and talk about East of Eden and
Tropic of Cancer
and every other damn thing I don't get and I don't have anything to say. I sit there and worry about my face and how I am sitting because if I can't contribute to the discussion I hope I at least look ok. Last night I dreamed
my old lit professor
called on me in class and I had a
mildly insightful
comment about whatever we were reading and he was impressed enough to end the class on that note. I woke up angry that he'd been so easily impressed.
Love letter
, East of Eden. I read these pages and think, there is something eluding me and it is like a fucking tiger in the living room but I am still not getting it. Why? I know what all the words mean. This is not
David Foster Wallace
,
I don't need a dictionary or a map
, it's subject verb subject verb.
I never got Hemingway
and all his vocabulary is straight off any fourth-grader's spelling list.
Love letter, East of Eden. It was never really about me. I can read the words all day and it will be like how it is when I use
chopsticks
. Maybe I will manage to get a few bits into my mouth. But probably not.
I never ventured in the woods and got drunk and slept
East of Eden
Tell people they're beautiful and you will change the world
It looks like you are writing a letter
Tropic of Cancer
She threw out all my letters
David Foster Wallace
Left with his secrets, his picture and silence
The "How many partners have you had" question
The twist of Kafka's hand
love letter
Everything Arranged Marriage Registry
Brainy people make the best friends
Letter to the mother of a dead friend
Kafka's Frustration with his Inherited Language
I hate you. Please don't leave me.
He brings me books like flowers
Fate is not twisted, it is tied in a knot
Nobody writes poetry about science
When I too long have looked upon your face,
I have never been sure that you knew quite how much I loved you
I tried polyamory and all I got were these two awesome boyfriends
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