TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Monday, September 01, 2003
i keep meaning to write in and update, but then i realized i've done nothing in the month or so (gasp) since tasp except eat a lot and stress out about college. oh, and not do my summer assignments, even though school starts tomorrow for me (ack).

bird by bird is all right, but a bit too self-help for good discussion, and i wouldn't wish the pain of repeating the book of merlyn on any of you lovelies. might i suggest reading some more borges if we're going to do book club stuff again (i don't get to suggest, i didn't contribute to the kafka!) we could just pick one story (library of babel and the garden of forking paths are both really cool) or try more - it reads REALLY fast. also, me and brian schultis already finished, so we're like ahead and stuff, which would definitely be a first for me.

sestinawise, i'm down, although i think renegade is about as kind as, say, coelacanth (grr on you, bryan). my word is "straight", because it's the 666th most common word in the english language (what a dork i be).

anyway. i have to go dye my hair (certain preparations must be made for the first day of school). i am dreading it because i keep expecting that once i go back to school i will see alex y. in architecture class or have, say, susan and jacob breaking it down in my english class. unfortunately, it is not to be (although i did have an almost tasp-ish conversation with a classmate the other day, as i was telling olga).

i am perturbed and excited by the repeated appearance of the famous jett jackson in our recommended searches list, and so i will whisper "lee thompson young, lee thompson young" under my breath to keep him up there. goodnight, boys and girls, and may school treat you (and me) well tomorrow (or thursday, you lucky bastid yablon).

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Existentialism is A Humanism, Essay by Sarte
preface to the lyrical ballads
the trial
heidegger's what calls for thinking
When Life Almost Died (deals with the Permian mass Extinction)
elizabeth costello
the god of small things
jung's aion
foucault's pendulum
coetzee's nobel acceptance speech
faulkner's nobel acceptance speech
koestler's The Act of Creation: part one, the jester
my mother and the roomer
Tao, the Greeks, and other important things
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

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the book of job
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