Greetings from Sydney, Day 5
February 23rd 2008 05:33
I dreamt that Barack Obama was speaking to my old Sydney Girls High School class, and people were making fun of him. He didn't really realise and was so keen to find approval that he overestimated his respondents' commitment to his policies, and as such made a bit of a fool of himself. At one point he started trying to dance with one of the girls who was seated, and only succeeded in moving her hands around. By the time he broke off she said something like 'up yours', and his smile kinda mostly deserted his face. But he was convinced that if he just kept going, he would find people to appeal to, so he did. The weather was cold, and we were near a snowy landscape.
If everyone in my dream is a representation of me, then clearly I feel like I am overly eager to focus on ways in which people are responding to my work, without, at first, being aware of to what extent they endorse it (and to what extent they are mocking it or being sarcastic).
I'm reluctant to pick up Atonement again, even despite a postmodern ending. (Btw, I think that in the film they should have had the text not analysed as a book but as a film - that would have lent itself better to the medium. When making a film, the rules are different, and the screenwriter/director should have taken a chance, I think.)
I just read that '...deconstruction is quite valuable, but theoretically incomplete'. I've asked the author 'How so?' and look forward to a reply as he's an interesting one - the pal from San Jose I mentioned earlier.
I haven't read much Derrida, and it hasn't been the part where he elaborates on his theory of deconstruction, but I do enjoy it, as it has been passed down by numerous scholars.
In Europe I felt a bit guilty for being somewhat dismissive of all the classical art that came my way, but I can't help it: too much repetition leads to disdain and distraction. I tried to re-orient myself to the texts in my frustration so that I would keep gleaning the beauty of their craftsmanship, and usually succeeded.
Have I mentioned that if America doesn't work out (I'm thinking coastal America, especially California), I'll head for Europe? I'm thinking of settling in London (or perhaps elsewhere in England, if it's bohemian enough), Paris or Barcelona... with Amsterdam as a tentative option. Now I've just got to suffer through undergraduate studies first.
I'm reluctant to pick up Atonement again, even despite a postmodern ending. (Btw, I think that in the film they should have had the text not analysed as a book but as a film - that would have lent itself better to the medium. When making a film, the rules are different, and the screenwriter/director should have taken a chance, I think.)
I just read that '...deconstruction is quite valuable, but theoretically incomplete'. I've asked the author 'How so?' and look forward to a reply as he's an interesting one - the pal from San Jose I mentioned earlier.
I haven't read much Derrida, and it hasn't been the part where he elaborates on his theory of deconstruction, but I do enjoy it, as it has been passed down by numerous scholars.
In Europe I felt a bit guilty for being somewhat dismissive of all the classical art that came my way, but I can't help it: too much repetition leads to disdain and distraction. I tried to re-orient myself to the texts in my frustration so that I would keep gleaning the beauty of their craftsmanship, and usually succeeded.
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