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Dear Diary: Why I Write and The Flesh of Words

I'm trying to clean my head out.
Trying to clean my room out.
Trying to clean my computer out.

While cleaning out my wallet I found a small cache of fortunes. I have this bad habit of keeping every fortune from a fortune cookie, just hording them all up for a bad day when I need to cash in on my fortune. So here's what they had to say to me, this little memory time capsul from the not so distant past.

-Adversity is the prosperity of the great.

-Life to you is a dashing and bold adventure.

-Any impatience you show will only create more stress.

-There is in the worst of fortunes the best chance of a happy ending.

-As soon as you feel too to do a thing, do it.

-You will hear pleasant news.

-Friends long absent are coming back to you.
(ironically as I write this the song is singing..."I'm going home...")

-When someone wrongs you [it?] is good virtue to ignore [them?/it]
(this fortune was stuck to another one and dates 9.15.06... )

-From a past misfortune good luck will come toy ou.

-A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

-You are altruistic and will be involved in many humanitarian projects.

-If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by.

-Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

and finally, last but not least (drum roll please...)

-Unexpected gain and honor will be yours!

Sweet!

And in the process of all of this I ran across two excellent books that I know I should just put back in the dark where I found them, but rather will take a look at them soon. The first one is The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing by Jacques Ranciere, and the other on is Why I Write: Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind by George Orwell.

I find this particularly interesting in light of the recent e-mails I was looking at from people in the writing program at the New School comdemning the violent actions of the students and threatening the safety and such of the campus, as well as being against its founding ideas and values. Very interesting to see reactionary writing coming out of the "writing" area of the New School... who knows?

Anyway, onward to more struggle kiddies. And don't forget to thank the tooth fairy for another good nights sleep.

Posted by horatio on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 (04:19:43) (173 reads) [ Administration ]

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