![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 30th, 2006 11:25 pm"Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands;
Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true Soul and Body appear before me,
They stand forth out of affairs—out of commerce, shops, law, science, work, forms, clothes, the house, medicine, print, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying."
That is the first stanza of Walt Whitman's "To You", and I think I love it. I'm analyzing it for an English project: I'm to compare its portrayal of "outsiders" to "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Secret History". I think I might enjoy it, for once. It could be challenging.
Seeing my grade on Friday, I was furious (as those present then undoubtedly know). She loved my language, but didn't think I'd been bothered to take her seriously. And I hadn't. I hereby declare war. Now I'm just mildly annoyed, and slightly regret the fact that I tore the thing into pieces.
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands;
Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true Soul and Body appear before me,
They stand forth out of affairs—out of commerce, shops, law, science, work, forms, clothes, the house, medicine, print, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying."
That is the first stanza of Walt Whitman's "To You", and I think I love it. I'm analyzing it for an English project: I'm to compare its portrayal of "outsiders" to "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Secret History". I think I might enjoy it, for once. It could be challenging.
Seeing my grade on Friday, I was furious (as those present then undoubtedly know). She loved my language, but didn't think I'd been bothered to take her seriously. And I hadn't. I hereby declare war. Now I'm just mildly annoyed, and slightly regret the fact that I tore the thing into pieces.
