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[proximoception]

_abulafia, how's permanent existence? (Just got mine!)

_swallow, how's the shock of affording things?

agoraphiliac, is Mass. pluraler than other places?

all_unnecessary, what drew you to that cruel taleteller?

andaghost, do your rivers repose?

andalus, what's Shakespeare been doing?

biberkopf_bear, is it Bresson or is it me? (no reply expected)

bluerosesgirl, has 2007-13 shifted your econ. views?

burntnorton, what would we be doing if we knew? (NRE)

canonfire, what book are you proudest to have helped deliver?

darkchild37, have you met any of the thirty-six plus other darkchildren? (NRE)

dominika_kretek, what made us think Heather Graham could act?

ensenchiridion, where will the pennies go?

fingersweep, tried Straussless Hofmannsthal?

flannerymatisse, whose was the strangest suicide? (NRE)

fuckallinfinity, what are we neglecting? (NRE)

gongora, what year is it in your soul?

grashupfer, what's Olivia reading?

ikon_, what's with the card thing? (NRE)

jones_casey, did you ever explain your name on here?

karinmollberg, what do you most miss from home?

localcharacter, Powell's or Strand?

maga_dogg, how's the upper left 48th?

mauvais_genre, what's next?

mendaciloquent, have you read much A.R. Ammons?

morelovehours, who do you now repudiate? (NRE)

nightspore, what's your favorite Byron canto?

parishat, how's the littling big guy? (NRE)

princenarcissus, what do the kids always get? (NRE)

proteus_fish, what has changed most?

tdaschel, title of an unexisting Ken Burns documentary you'd watch in a dream?

thelican, does this decade have a feeling to it yet?

toctoc, what puzzles you most about your neighbors?

vexed_vitality, do you swim?

whatever_being, what have you most enjoyed writing about?

wolodymyr, what's that on your labcoat?

xhasyxhaxha, but what about squirrels?

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[jones-casey.livejournal.com]

i have, occasionally. i'm as much lowbrow as any other brow, which is to say i remember my childhood entertainments with fondness and can still access an appreciation in that spirit. i created the account as means of keeping up with my brother and his friends, with no knowledge of the site's general usage, and so i borrowed an alias from our youth. the standard form was taken (there are several celebrities it names in addition to being common enough among regular folk) and though i don't recall why, i was enamoured enough with the name to utilize the reversed form rather than choose another. when i grew into lj, i considered changing it, but found i'd become comfortable with an alias that is ostensibly a real name, rather than proximate to a concept.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

This week: piano sheet music and French flash cards.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

None.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I'll remember to post some.

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

(Welcome to my Nightmare ..)
whoa! i had to .. double-check Ken Burns, make sure there isn't some minor Burns you might've meant. hmm, Mr Excursions in Polite Cultural Anthropology. i would likely .. dream a 12 part "Roots of Emo" series (with accompanying soundtrack on Rhino !).

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Ken Burns' Emo I would watch.

[bluerosesgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Wait, what a great question.

The 7 year stretch, 2007-2013. Has it changed my econ views?

2007_to_2013 = { 'it': 'the economic events of 2007-13' , 'my own 2007-13, in human time' , 'like, the Saturn aspect' }

Yes. Clarified and made less clear. Complexity. Marxist in analysis of the actual. Zen Buddhist in curiosity about action. Preference for the actual and for the poetically rigorous. Differing-assumption-seeking. Still, my god, talking about it. (Boring.)

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Of my roommates this year (I have five), two are wont to sleep with the door open. In one case, this leads to the permeation through the house of a regular, stentorian oration of snoring, in the other an occasional eerie moan. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why one wouldn't choose to close & lock the door during sleep--that most fragile & vulnerable of processes--especially among near strangers! Perhaps it is I who am mad to think that something might befall me in the night, that there is more danger in external events than in the desperate involutions (no less real, in a sense) of dreams. Those radical exposures...most puzzling indeed.

Why do you ask?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

After thirty questions questons get less good.

[fingersweep.livejournal.com]

If you count Die Frau ohne Schatten, then yes (I've read the libretto, but haven't heard the opera yet). But I think my answer is really no. His poetry and non-musical plays I can find. What do you recommend prose-wise?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

All. The Tale of the 672nd Night might be a good starting place, and is in most selections.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Someone put up an unidentified translation of his Chandos Letter here:

http://wabay.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/the-letter-of-lord-chandos-by-hugo-von-hofmannsthal/

Not my favorite, but by far his most famous non-Strauss work.

[fingersweep.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read this. The translation should be credited, I think. (To the owned of the blog, maybe? "It's all learning and teaching to me!!!")

-- "In the company of [Seneca and Cicero] I was overcome with a terrible sense of loneliness; I felt like someone locked in a garden surrounded by eyeless statues."

-- "I cannot expect you to understand me without examples, and I must plead your indulgence for their absurdity. A pitcher, a harrow abandoned in a field, a dog in the sun..."

-- "I know not how oft this Crassus with his lamprey enters my mind as a mirrored image of my Self, reflected across the abyss of centuries. But not on account of the answer he gave Domitius. The answer brought the laughs on his side, and the whole affair turned into a jest. I, however, am deeply affected by the affair, which would have remained the same even had Domitius shed bitter tears of sorrow over his wives. For there would still have been Crassus, shedding tears over his lamprey."

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

The mid-century Selected Prose volume is wall-to-wall fantastic, but usually unfindable outside libraries.

[vexed-vitality.livejournal.com]

Yes, I swim sometimes, since I live in south Florida and I'm only a few miles from the beach. I'm not a big beach guy or water-lover in general though. I rarely swim in pools anymore though, and I've never swum in a lake that I can recall. It kind of weirds me out.

Whether this is some meme or your own invention, I like many of your questions. I'm curious why I got the one I did though.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Because you're in Florida. Ocean swimming makes me happier than anything. Also cheap perfect seared tuna.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ikon_/]

It's from Ghostbusters, at the beginning, where Bill Murray is testing the psychic ability of the two students. I love everything about the gif.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh right.

[wolodymyr.livejournal.com]

NOT the two-headed monkey pin I got from devoutdolls.com. Anyways, not yet.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Manic pixie dream doctor ACTIVATE!

[thelican.livejournal.com]

My letters, numbers, and days of the week may have colors and genders, but my decades never really have a feeling to them. As far as I'm concerned, it could still be the aughties.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing's being distinct yet.

Genders? That's fascinating! My sister has numerical, letter and I think weekday synesthesia, but I've never heard of gendered days. Do they affect your behavior? No manicures on Wednesdays, no fishing on Thursdays?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

abulafia wins the award for most ironic (non-)response.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

haha!

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not the same place as the flowers (of Seeger fame)
I think its repetition killed its worth for all of us.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

I loved this little surprise!

Hasn't worn off yet. I find myself buying coffee out way more often. I also am spending a seemingly infinite amount on trapeze teacher training, which should theoretically give me income itself at some point.

[xhasyxhaxha.livejournal.com]

To be honest I don't really have anything to say about squirrels that I haven't said already, except that from observation I have a notion that in some part of the mind of any given squirrel there's a perfect sine wave drawn down whatever line it's moving along, and as it moves it feels somehow compelled to describe this sine wave with its tail, and even if it stops cautiously still for a moment in the middle of moving, it leaves its tail in the air describing the sine wave. Maybe you've noticed the same thing...

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I have not and that is fantastic.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

DJ Canto IV, I think.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Mine too.