Now I am a lake...

Eloge de l'Amour*

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:32:54 +0000

- You're not very talkative.

- I'm going through a hard time. I broke up with my girlfriend.
We'd been together for 10 years.
It's strange, in fact, how things take on meaning when the story ends.

- It's because History is coming in. With a big H.

*a Godard film

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:38:15 +0000

I'm sorry that you have pain and I don't. I'm sorry that I have no useful knowledge to cure you. I'm sorry that I wasn't and am not there beside you.
I'm sorry mom.

me too?I don't know

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:23:13 +0000

"I'm a turtle, wherever I go I carry "home" on my back."
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Gloria Anzaldua

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:57 +0000

I think this is depression. It started 3 weeks ago and still continues. I could be very happy while being with others but then when I'm alone I feel the very sense of it. I stopped going to gym since then. I stopped being motivated with my studies. I started eating cakes and coffees and chips and chocolates instead and I can weep easily.

Still one week left to finish this semester and I'm sooooo exhausted and tired of being here, sitting at library and study for exams. I know most of the materials but not to write essays in exams. I can talk about them and I'm pretty sure that I'm familiar with most of the philosophical concepts.

It's cold. I need sunlight. I miss being at my home. I miss him. I miss my family and my friends.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:01:10 +0000

I just read one of my old posts here and smiled. How hilarious my English was. It means that I've improved a lot gradually without realizing it. I don't say I'm very good now, but pretty much better than before.

Anyway, I'm trying to activate this blog again and write more in English. There are lots of things to write about and the blog readers would be fewer than my Persian blog if there would be any at all.

Probably here I'll write more on Dublin, my daily life, and what I read or learn or watch. There'll be more pictures taken by me. (hope so)

This is the first picture. I took it weeks ago. It's usually busy during the day but I took that shot on a Saturday. This afternoon I drank my coffee here. It was dark and nothing was to be seen through those large windows and yes Lacan was waiting for me in the library so I had to come back to study him.

I finally could make a little bit sense out of his essay. After reading bunch of stuff about the mirror-stage, misrecognition, Freud's uncanny, Symbolic, Imaginary and Real, I'm feeling more confidence now about the psychoanalytic part of exam revision.

Tomorrow i'll review structuralism and post-structuralism.

test

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:54:35 +0000

test

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:22:29 +0000

I love this word:

fluffy

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:16:08 +0000

writing is a physical act, and to keep in trim, you should practice daily.

from a book called "practical guide to writing"

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:24:41 +0000

However, Rippert also said in the article that he could not be certain of the identity of the French pilot whose plane he shot down. He also hoped it was not the French author as he was a big fan of Saint-Exupery's works.

Father and Son

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:23:42 +0000

_ Where are you now?
_ I...
I see trees,
there's a path...
_ Are you still over there?
_ the sun...
_ Where is it?
_ It's beautiful.
_ Am I over there?
_ No,
I'm all alone.

a film by: Alexander Sokurov

on Writing

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:06:35 +0000

"Read, read,read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! you'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."(William Faulkner)

Imitation is one of the best ways of learning. Is it not by copying that most painters acquire their skill? In the field of writing too, a great deal can be learnt by following the style of certain writers. It forces you to study a model, and gives you the framework within which to write, whilst still allowing you to be fully imaginative and creative. It is therefore a first step on the way to free writing.

from Writing for Advanced Learners of English
by Francoise Grellet

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:17:26 +0000

...In a land of zero degree
which is neither east nor west
has neither day nor night
which is neither cold nor warm
I learned the feeling of exile

"Wong Kar-wai"

Harbinger

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:13:50 +0000

a person or thing showing that something is going to happen or is on its way:

Daffodils are a harbinger of spring.
Cock is the harbinger of the dawn.

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:24:31 +0000

Some write to remember,
some write to forget,

Welcome to the hotel california !
such a lovely place !
such a lovely place !!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:28:21 +0000

" I waited on the corner for my blind date. When this girl walked by, I said, " Are you Linda?" She said " Are you Richard?" " I said,"yeah". She said," I'm not Linda."

Richard Prince- 1991