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Hey guys, good to hear from y'all. I don't really know what I'm going to do for my thesis (my proposal is due tomorrow). I think I have Senioritis. I've gotten, let's see, an F on my first Lit. Theory paper (I turned in one page), a C- on my first Symbolic Logic test, a C on my first Physics homework . . . and now I have this philosophy proposal thingy, which I haven't really thought about yet . . . . There's a strange kind of freedom you experience when you let go of your fear of getting bad grades . . . . I don't know if I want to go to grad school now. I've thought, briefly, about going into osteopathic medicine (is that the right word? I'm thinking about the eastern-tinged pseudo-spiritual acupuncture massage type doctor). Oh, and I just wrote my first article for our school paper (a concert review) and it was embarrassingly bad. Badbadbad. Sigh. I like yoga, do you guys? I need to find more free yoga classes at Hamilton.

Are you reading anything cool for your classes, Anna? I've been stopped on page 182 (of 209) in Lighthouse for about two weeks (probably another senioritis symptom). I'll post some of my ideas about the book another time -- it would be nice to bounce ideas off each other. Ben, I like the Middlemarch quotes, I'll have to read that eventually. The Borges lectures are fun to listen to: they can be a little boring, but I like the sound of his voice. For now, here's a Woolf quote about Middlemarch:

She was by way of being terrified of him--he was so fearfully clever, and the first night when she had sat by him, and he talked about George Eliot, she had been really frightened, for she had left the third volume of Middlemarch on the train and she never knew what happened at the end; but afterwords she got on perfectly, and made herself out even more ignorant than she was, because he liked telling her she was a fool. (98)

I like the image of a book traveling on when the person gets off the train. I'm not sure what to make of it though. Any thoughts? I'll have to read the Obama speech again, and the last Eliot quote you posted, Ben. And send away with your thesis, though I don't know when I'll actually read it. Best, BP