| WHAT I HAVE LEARNED AT COLLEGE |
[13 Sep 2007|04:19pm] |
"Kitchi lofass a shegithe," or "Kicsi lófasz a seggedbe", translated from Hungarian to mean, more or less, "A small horse dick up your unmentionable."
I have a v. legit reason for knowing the above; the phrase is hurled by the main character in Pynchon's Entropy, Meatball Mulligan, at Sandor Rojas when the latter asks Meatball to make him a drink. It's kind of like the other day at Usdan when I asked Sam to tie my shoelaces for me and she was all omg fuck you.
Yeah anyway so classes are in full swing now and I'm reacquiring the skill of prioritizing all the reading I have to do, juggling between length, level of interestingness and urgency. My Metaphor & Modernity class so far has set the most WHEEHEE readings like the Pynchon matched with Hawking's exploration of The Arrow of Time and entropy from a scientific pov. But the professor is a bit neither here nor there, which is a bit frustrating cos there's so much I want to have explored, and when the professor doesn't really facilitate or guide the discussion, the focus switches randomly and in the end, quite aimlessly cos student responses go from "We don't really need time" to "Aubade's name actually means a song to herald dawnbreak" to "What was happening in 1965?" At the last question my mind automatically chimed, "Singapore's independence!" which startled me a little bit. So conditioned, tis.
Example of why course selection is important is evident in fact that Sam and I are both doin 5 classes but I'm consistently sleeping past midnight trying to finish reading while Sam gets to do fun equestrian things :\ But I want everything I'm doing, I do. Twould probably be a bit easier to deal if today wasn't also the first day of fasting, I think. Weather damn cold.
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