And go again we again go

My stack of books for this quarter is even bigger than it was for fall quarter.

This fact makes my soul hurt, a little bit.

back to the grind
the mind-grind
incessant ground mining
yes I mind I mind I mind




I am not ready to again resume the necessary level of brain engagement with all the ridiculous things I study.

Blargh.

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On another note, Bukowski wrote, in "the people":

true revolution
comes from true revulsion

J.M. Coetzee has a ton of that same sort of theme in his stuff, too, and I have been steadily working my way through his entire body of (incredibly amazing) work and it has got me thinking.

Oh, thinking. There really ought to be an on/off switch for the whole thought thing. It'd be awfully nice to sometimes get a break from it.

But, back to revolution and revulsion. I really like it, as an idea.

Will consider it further.

Also been thinking about quantification. How we seem to exist in a world in which there is this acute problem of ceding of the individual self and body to numbers and statistics and monetary figures. And why? Because everything is so sterile in numerics? And sterility breeds supposed safety, right? But I think that's really just one massive, terrible illusion.

But I think all that is for another day.

This is just me rambling about things that have piqued my interest as of late.

On the whole, brain is clearly still in break-mode.

Hopefully it will kick back into gear sometime soon.

Until then, have some Jon Lajoie. Because youtube is far more appealing than any form of real intellectual-functioning at this moment in my life.