My head has full now
Feb. 11th, 2009 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI found, cut n pasted, rearranged, changed the font so it's readable, changed it again so it all fits tidily on pages, and ended up with a file full of poetry for Renaissance lessons this semester.
I read bunches as I went along.
I find I'm still rather meh about poetry. I like it when there's a good story in it, like Metamorphoses, which has all the stories ever. Little pretty things about love, while infinitely preferable to Intro Lit 2's preoccupation with suicide, are still not really my thing. And then there's the ones which are, well, getting a bit familiar by now. Do we really have to compare thee to a summer's day again? It's very pretty and all, but... *sigh*
There's other stuff. I will find interesting. I'm quite enthusiastic about a lot of the stuff I've been reading. I find if I consider it all to be an RPG setting I can get interested in the fiddliest details, and I keep an eye out for conflicts automatically. This is what I get for alternating chapters of the huge Renaissance history book of doom with bits of GURPS rules.
Right. I have 50 minutes before I'm going out bowling. (This seemed a good idea when I arranged it. I suppose I'm quite unlikely to nod off once I'm there really.) I'm going to relax a bit and look at pretty pictures.
I can get at my Art History shelf now I've rearranged the furniture. I shall have to buy some Renaissance picture books to expand the collection. There's a section of the reading list about art. Cool.
At the moment I'm looking at my celtic art books. I get really wound up when someone has cheated the knotwork and there's secretly a line that doesn't connect to all the other lines or visibly terminate somewhere. Knotwork is really OCD art. Possibly a bit too much so.
I read bunches as I went along.
I find I'm still rather meh about poetry. I like it when there's a good story in it, like Metamorphoses, which has all the stories ever. Little pretty things about love, while infinitely preferable to Intro Lit 2's preoccupation with suicide, are still not really my thing. And then there's the ones which are, well, getting a bit familiar by now. Do we really have to compare thee to a summer's day again? It's very pretty and all, but... *sigh*
There's other stuff. I will find interesting. I'm quite enthusiastic about a lot of the stuff I've been reading. I find if I consider it all to be an RPG setting I can get interested in the fiddliest details, and I keep an eye out for conflicts automatically. This is what I get for alternating chapters of the huge Renaissance history book of doom with bits of GURPS rules.
Right. I have 50 minutes before I'm going out bowling. (This seemed a good idea when I arranged it. I suppose I'm quite unlikely to nod off once I'm there really.) I'm going to relax a bit and look at pretty pictures.
I can get at my Art History shelf now I've rearranged the furniture. I shall have to buy some Renaissance picture books to expand the collection. There's a section of the reading list about art. Cool.
At the moment I'm looking at my celtic art books. I get really wound up when someone has cheated the knotwork and there's secretly a line that doesn't connect to all the other lines or visibly terminate somewhere. Knotwork is really OCD art. Possibly a bit too much so.
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Date: 2009-02-11 03:19 pm (UTC)I've always found Celtic knotwork soothing, although addictive. Have you tried making actual 3-D knots in cord, for jewelry or costume trim? I should get out my knotwork books; I wonder if Younger Daughter would enjoy them?
Good on you with the book-organising! You deserve new books as a prize.
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:55 pm (UTC)I think they're soothing when they work. When one of them is Not Right it's like finding a typo but needing to draw a whole complicated thing to fix it. Also I'm not good at quitting in the middle, even if sleep should have theoretically happened.
I have a plan where more books leave the house than enter it, and I eventually have enough shelf space. I... do not anticipate huge amounts of success with this plan. But it's kind of fun turning books I've got doubles of into lunch anyway.