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Feb. 29th, 2004
Had some zine-angst today but then it went away after t'h laughed and laughed about it. ("What, you're worried about one ridiculous time-wasting weird looney activity replacing another ridiculous time-wasting weird looney activity? What a girley! Help!") *cackles* Ah, the married life. I love it.
After loving it, had row about him calling my online obsession ridiculous, time-wasting and weird. He relented on the count of "time-wasting" but reserved the right to continue being weirded out. Right is granted.
Am onto the second section (out of five) of my narratological analysis of fanfic. I fear it may end up being 16 pages or so long... But I love doing it.
Remembered I had a book to review. Searched everywhere for book which had been repressed and buried under pile of (equally repressed) unpaid bills. Retrieved it, started to annotate, ran for computer and LJ. Ack.
Baked cake. Am German. Must have cake on Sunday. Is genetically programmed.
Drafted fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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furorscribendi first-date challenge although it's now completely overdue.
Did naughty marital things in kitchen while kiddies killed Nazis on t'X-box.
Re-read Lustre.
Spoke tosheldrake on the telephonic apparatus. Told each other about increasing boredom with Lotrips and increasing involvement with AU.
Realised that it is not, for me, a good idea to re-visit old LJ-entries, be they exactly one year ago or whenever, as it only depresses. Resolved to desist forthwith.
ETA: Will now watch Before Night Falls with Johnny Depp and homosexual content. Have conned t'h into it by judiciously only mentioning 'Julian Schnabel' and 'Cuba'. True motivation will become apparent quite soon, I expect...
After loving it, had row about him calling my online obsession ridiculous, time-wasting and weird. He relented on the count of "time-wasting" but reserved the right to continue being weirded out. Right is granted.
Am onto the second section (out of five) of my narratological analysis of fanfic. I fear it may end up being 16 pages or so long... But I love doing it.
Remembered I had a book to review. Searched everywhere for book which had been repressed and buried under pile of (equally repressed) unpaid bills. Retrieved it, started to annotate, ran for computer and LJ. Ack.
Baked cake. Am German. Must have cake on Sunday. Is genetically programmed.
Drafted fic for
azewewish's furorscribendi first-date challenge although it's now completely overdue.Did naughty marital things in kitchen while kiddies killed Nazis on t'X-box.
Re-read Lustre.
Spoke to
sheldrake on the telephonic apparatus. Told each other about increasing boredom with Lotrips and increasing involvement with AU.Realised that it is not, for me, a good idea to re-visit old LJ-entries, be they exactly one year ago or whenever, as it only depresses. Resolved to desist forthwith.
ETA: Will now watch Before Night Falls with Johnny Depp and homosexual content. Have conned t'h into it by judiciously only mentioning 'Julian Schnabel' and 'Cuba'. True motivation will become apparent quite soon, I expect...
Just to add: I get such a fucking kick out of using Aristotle and Plato to understand slashy fanfic. The thing is: it works so beautifully! And it works both ways! It works for A and P because their ideas can be applied to a genre they'd never even dreamed of (which shows how well thought-out their ideas were), and it works for slash because it shows that as well as being a low-brow form of amateur porn it is also a fantastically complex form of writing (which shows that narrative is the same wherever it may be found).
Oh, and the sheer audacity of it! Delicious.
Btw, if you prefer showing to telling and if you believe that the distinction show vs tell makes sense, you are an Aristotelian. Because he valued drama over poetry because it is all show.
But if you prefer telling to showing and believe that the narrator's presence should breathe life into the narrative, then you are a Platonist (is that the word?). Because he believed in the superiority over diegesis (narration) over mimesis (imitation), and rewrote the beginning of Homer's 'Iliad' (which is written in the first person) in third-person indirect reporting. But, note also, Plato believed mimesis was only possible in direct speech (dialogue) so his distinction diegesis / mimesis doesn't totally correspond to tell / show.
I have not yet figured out which one I am tho' my LJ appellation would appear to suggest I have. I love Plato's validation of diegesis (note my earlier anti-show-not-tell post!) but I also love Aristotle and at the moment, I've forgotten why. (It might just be because his name sounds so beautiful but then, I wouldn't be that superficial, would I?)
*giggles with glee*
Oh, and the sheer audacity of it! Delicious.
Btw, if you prefer showing to telling and if you believe that the distinction show vs tell makes sense, you are an Aristotelian. Because he valued drama over poetry because it is all show.
But if you prefer telling to showing and believe that the narrator's presence should breathe life into the narrative, then you are a Platonist (is that the word?). Because he believed in the superiority over diegesis (narration) over mimesis (imitation), and rewrote the beginning of Homer's 'Iliad' (which is written in the first person) in third-person indirect reporting. But, note also, Plato believed mimesis was only possible in direct speech (dialogue) so his distinction diegesis / mimesis doesn't totally correspond to tell / show.
I have not yet figured out which one I am tho' my LJ appellation would appear to suggest I have. I love Plato's validation of diegesis (note my earlier anti-show-not-tell post!) but I also love Aristotle and at the moment, I've forgotten why. (It might just be because his name sounds so beautiful but then, I wouldn't be that superficial, would I?)
*giggles with glee*