design, squash Daily Activities, Reading, March 24, 2004 11:05 PM 0 comments
Limp
This noun/verb is mentioned in the tome I'm currently immersed in for a second time since like high school, D.F. Wallace's Infinite Jest, hailed by some as a modern classic US-Of-A hit in fiction lit., a claim I'm as yet undecided on except to say it's one dang interesting read from just a formalist, school-of-pop-culture, student-of-writing subjective perspective…So ya "limp" is used colloquially by a character as a synonym for trite and banal. So good, just one example of the great stuff in there. I could (and am) plaster(ing) its pages with colour-coded adhesive 3M tab markers for spots of interest / techniques of the trade / reference material / biblio stuff / big words I don't know the meaning of. This 1079 pager's (96 alone are footnotes: ya, Wallace is the footnote guy) gotta be read to be believed. Could go on for weblog post after weblog post on this thing, and will, IJ getting to have such a profound influence on my writing (you'll know what I mean if you've read his stuff, I should be ashamed), my academic goals, my squash game. Seriously: gets me thinking metaphysically about my squash game.
Wow, I spelled colloquial right on the first try. My spelling's improving, too. In other news: got a repetitious groove going that I stumble into every a.m. and but don't have time to think about much: Hella busy with the web job. It's literally sleep, eat, work, eat, work, eat, work, squash, eat, work, eat, read, sleep. Ya, that is really it exactly and I'm so immersed can't sort of step back to see the big picture. Which are good, interesting times. Though "design and crunch" would be a better description for "work" 'cause I, you know, enjoy the effort. In the future, what will I think about all this time spent on early 21st C. web sites?
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.—Will Durant
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