Sturm und Trank

i work in academia / this is a side blog, I follow as lucerei

[literaryhistories]

when the lightness of being is unbearable

[postnuclearophelia]

i love saying etc. like figure it out yourself

[literaryhistories]

The uni/the fit

[decayalectical-deactivated20230]

how do you become so well read?

by reading

[literaryhistories]

today's schedule in Berlin: seminar discussion on St Jerome's letter to Pammachius at 2, falafel at 5, abstract submission deadline at 6, drag show at 8

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[literaryhistories]

shit i read when I'm already on the verge of a mental breakdown

[literaryhistories]

*emerges form J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words covered in blood*

[studujucestinu]

Cením Ludvíka Vaculíka za to, že se podíval po svých kolezích na IV. sjezdu Svazu československých spisovatelů (1967) a s klidem jim sdělil, že "Za dvacet let nebyla u náš vyřešena žádná lidská otázka". Na následky nemusel čekat dlouho, druhý den ho vyloučili.

[literaryhistories]

finally, some quality visual material for my conference presentation

[Ludvík Vaculík chasing Jiří Hendrych (without a briefcase) out of the 4th Writers' Congress]

[literaryhistories]

Parisian drafts pt.5 playing find blorbo from your work at Gallimard

[literaryhistories]

i'm reading my MA thesis and it's actually good

[my-deer-friend]

If you ever wondered why writing a dissertation/thesis takes so damn long, this has been my day so far.

Me: Okay, I should probably add a paragraph about the contextual late-18th-century understanding of republicanism. Let me read over a key text to make sure I'm being accurate. [downloads a 42-page book chapter] Me: Hmm, okay, on page one of this chapter they're expecting me to know some nuanced things about civic humanism. Better just brush up real quick. [downloads 9-page primer from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Me: Okay, cool, but there's some stuff in here about Machiavelli that I really should read in its annotated source context, because that's what my history guys were working from. [downloads 283-page book on Machiavellian political philosophy with source texts] Me: Oh, for fuck's sake-- [downloads Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics]

[enlitment]

how it feels like doing research:

[fairycosmos]

its not only normal to cry at work its a requirement. you can get a promotion on the basis of crying and sobbing even

[literaryhistories]

Parisian drafts pt.4 Night at the Opéra-Comique

[literaryhistories]

life really does sort itself out on a random wednesday

[literaryhistories]

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