My Weekend of Hell is beginning to come to an end, only to give way to Week of Hell - my ToK essay, which I've [theoretically] had all semester to work on, is due in thirteen hours and I have 229 words (or Tara's way, 229:1600 = 0.143) and a huge stack of TASP readings I'm sifting through for useful bits of ToKness.

It's amazing how much I've forgotten - I came across the Bordieu, thickly underlined everywhere, and wondered when and how I'd managed to read it, because I don't remember anything from it but that Monica made us all raise our hands and keep our hands up if we'd read the list of titles she read out, and the first book on that list was the Bible.
But then again, there's a special poignance to rereading this stuff when I'm supposed to be writing away - firstly, the second reading makes the text so much easier to understand. And of course, even in the cases where the second reading doesn't clarify anything (as in the section from Aristotle that was 75% Greek with footnotes) it raises exclusively Telluridian memories of laughing over the passage.

Although I'd love to bring up some relevant discussion on literature, I'm proving myself a victim of commercialization and pointing your attention to amazon.com's [relatively] new search-inside-a-book service. Amazon has "only" scanned 100,000 books so far, but it's amazing when the book you're looking for is one of them. In my desperation I'm quote-dropping like crazy in this essay, and this service is saving my life (even though it goes against scholarly convention, I dont' know) - because I'm in panic mode I can't afford to weigh its pros and cons but for the moment it's another triumph for technology. I recommend you all try it.

Congratulations to the Deep Springs applicants who have that ungodly number of essays out of the way.

Missing you, thinking of you--

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [1:40 AM]

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