Tao of Alba

TAO OF ALBA

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:39 PM

here's a dose of literature for you

Okay, despite the allusions to sex and "violent lovemaking", who wouldn't want to be courted like the description of Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. Personally, I like the lavish courtship part. It's something that my boyfriend can relate to after courting me for three years. Here's the excerpt:

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

If you would read further, you will learn that this poem is not so innocent, especially when it refers to virginity being devoured by worms upon death. Hehehe. But I'm telling you, waiting until the conversion of the Jews is a long, long, long time.

Full text and synopsis can be read here.

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Monday, January 29, 2007 9:01 PM

living the student life (again)

Whoever said that it's better to be wrong as long as you're adamant about what you believe in rather than having a fickle belief of things has not been to the College of Arts and Letters Library to look for a missing book that turned out to be in another part of the university.

So now that I started the study of letters, I have become guilty of run-on sentences?

The point is, I believe it is better to escape the shame and embarassment brought about by a gloating librarian (after one passionately points out that the library search and catalogue system belonged in the jurassic period) by just clicking the link that specifies the actual location of the book in question.

Geez, this entry is certainly boring. I am talking about books, libraries, and catalogue systems???

Forgive me. I am having an anxiety attack from an assignment that requires three topics with designated literary theories, with separate bibliographies that feature ten books and/or journals, that should only contain a web source of just 10% of the total number of sources. Got that? Believe me I an still depressed for contemplating that ten percent of 10 is 1.

A piece of advice (one that I still have to take into consideration): forget taking your masters, just look for a rich, handsome guy and seduce him into marriage without a prenup.

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