Monday, March 2, 2009

trudging along


i didn't like today. it was monday, it snowed a lot, my commute to work was crowded and long, and my nasty cough isn't getting better. but now i'm home and trying to un-gargamel myself.

on the bright side, i am still reading "the unbearable lightness of being" and liking it a lot. i read a passage today in which kundera talks about tereza reading 'anna karenina' and the symmetrical composition of anna meeting vronsky when someone is run over by a train, and then at the end, anna throws herself under a train. (i've never read this book but i think i will/should at some point.) kundera writes,
"[this] may seem quite 'novelistic' to you, and i am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as 'fictive,' 'fabricated,' and 'untrue to life' into the word 'novelistic.'

i am always very drawn to any kind of literary theory in which the essence of fiction vs. truth is pondered. i wrote my senior thesis on this subject and am constantly trying to prove this very philosophical theory that fiction is not false: it is often capable of revealing truths more than real life can. and this is why i love fiction.

also on the bright side, i renewed my mlb.com audio pass today so i can listen to all the phillies games, and listened to the phillies come back from a big deficit to beat toronto 12-6. yeah, it's only spring training, but good news is good news.

i'm going to try to do this thing my cousin is doing and blog at least 25 days this month. let's see how i do.

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