narrated images into my eyes

finally with the laptop in university library

but with the tactile pleasure of holding a NY Times this morning too

some good old Japanese fictional novels came my way

and they narrated images into my eyes

stacks and stacks of books and journals,

people laboring on....wish i could snap a photograph

Can we make characters talk to each other , in the way they talk to themselves!

Highlights of this Week

Two quickly written papers, not very satisfying...

Reading Swartz and understanding power and resistance to it

Seeing Goddard's 'Breathless', I came to the question - is the intra-personal communication at any point of time excluded from the inter-personal communication?

Can we make characters talk to each other , in the way they talk to themselves!

Consumerism seems to be the 'act' or 'activity' in SL, all my peers were trying new clothes, new hair, new skin and I as a newbee just looked around...completely lost as I do if a shopping mall does not have a bookstore

The pictures one gets to snap in SL sometimes remind of a pastiche-ness of Cubism and Neo-constructivism, i could be mistaken but then i am not an art historian :)

haven’t I drooled over expressions like ‘sunny rainfall'

This week has been a week of readings. So, I have read and intend to READ throughout the weekend. There is an exasperation and a certain feeling of seductiveness accompanying the process of ‘reading’ and the reason I cannot write more on it is because of my inability to find reasons for why this READING process is the way it is……..wonderfully ambiguous and oxymoronish…haven’t I drooled over expressions like ‘sunny rainfall' and ‘optimistically pessimist’, partly an explanation…certainly and certainly not... before I actually get my hands at a camera here, lets have some SL pics of BG

all cash starved, all looking for cheap meals

Well the weekend was long, really long

three trips to Walmart and meeting fellow students there - all cash starved, all looking for cheap meals

and then i am home listening to tapes about people discussing how to stop this incessant consumerism

its a pain listening to them, it really is, and the fact that i have to write them down

i surely like the philosophical bent of it

written in despair by the greats

the adornos, the gramscis, the marcuses

but but but... can they be the alternative?

the fact that i am even making this question

suggests there is a possibility

So, from now on, it is going to be like this.

Coffee, and biscuits (if you are lucky)...writing papers, finding related text and putting them together, constructing meaning by putting words together, deconstructing also in the process.

Coffee in tongue, I am beginning to hate it. Its utilitarian purpose, stops you from going asleep.

Well if that was the week, the weekend was better. S

some good papers to go through,

some wonderful beer and smoked salmon,

and Wong Kar Wai. sometimes it is good to have fetishes - his fetish for smoke coming from boilers, cups, kettles, cigarette stubs sunk in ashtrays, fog lifting itself as lovers are in the mood for love.....