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cosmolinguistThe Friday Five
1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
I like newspapers--though I haven't read the kind that get newsprint on your hands for months now; I just don't have access to them and can figure out what's going on in the world with my internet connection anyway--but I mostly read novels for fun. Science fiction's my favorite.
2. What is your favorite novel?
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
I know this is somewhere else in my journal, but I can't resist sharing it anyway. Maybe just because I talked about it yesterday. I don't really have a single favorite poem, but this is close enough (it's by e.e. cummings, of course):
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other:then
laugh,leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read? the book I'm reading right now, actually, as somehow my ninth grade class didn't read it, even though the classes older and younger than us did.
5. What are you currently reading?
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
I like newspapers--though I haven't read the kind that get newsprint on your hands for months now; I just don't have access to them and can figure out what's going on in the world with my internet connection anyway--but I mostly read novels for fun. Science fiction's my favorite.
2. What is your favorite novel?
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
I know this is somewhere else in my journal, but I can't resist sharing it anyway. Maybe just because I talked about it yesterday. I don't really have a single favorite poem, but this is close enough (it's by e.e. cummings, of course):
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other:then
laugh,leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read? the book I'm reading right now, actually, as somehow my ninth grade class didn't read it, even though the classes older and younger than us did.
5. What are you currently reading?
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
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Date: 2003-02-28 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-28 05:40 pm (UTC)2. I have a ton of favorites; first one that springs to mind is the last one I read, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
3. Charge of the Light Brigade; it's a bit long for here.
4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.
5. Still working on Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson. I'm up to chapter 2, which starts on page 107.
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Date: 2003-02-28 06:02 pm (UTC)2. I read Steppenwolf in high school. I was a weird kid. (I knew and liked the band Steppenwolf too...I told you I was a weird kid. I'm still a weird kid.)
3. Charge of the Light Brigade is an awesome poem! A favorite of my friend