literally the most normal tag i have seen on this. thank you for simply tagging #dog and not “you must answer his riddles three” or “why the long face” or “he is melting!” etc.
do you guys even know what anne carson is like. you reblog her quotes all the time but are you aware that seeing her in person is a spiritual experience
she came to my college in the spring of 2019. she was wearing
a flannel under a pinstripe suit, cuffed trousers and bright red sneakers, and
she had her hair up in a messy bun. I didn’t take a picture but here’s my
artist’s rendition
the whole room was full of Classics wlwTM and we
Absolutely Could Not Handle This Like Even a Little Bit. I got so distracted
thinking about her during my workout today that I accidentally did 15 more
jumping jacks than I was supposed to, which I think is the gayest sentence I’ve
ever written.
how do I describe the way she speaks? it’s this very floaty,
dignified, vaguely curious, uncompelled, but very intentional style of diction,
like if you met god at a garden party and she handed you a pitcher of cream and
asked you why you think you should get into heaven. I wrote down the phrase
“Your ridiculous little glasslike soul” and I don’t remember in what context
she said it, but THAT’S the vibe.
she is screamingly funny but relentlessly deadpan.
“You know Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for—” she pulls down her glasses and looks
at us, like a librarian who moonlights writing erotica – “sodomy.” She had us do
an “interactive portion” during one of her poems, instructing the right side of
the audience: “Your part is simply the word Deciduous? With a question
mark at the end.”
She has flawless comedic timing, and she does not use
filler words. Remember this line from Elektra? it sums up her sense of humor
PERFECTLY:
She spices up her wit by dropping in the occasional
mind-blowing quote like “Tears are all about the weeper, aren’t they?” and “Roses
and hurricanes are too much as they are to be anything else, to be damaged by
metaphor.” and “Do I frighten people, saying there’s no back wall? Nothing
between you and your heart of darkness?”
like. she is an incredible writer and I’m not about to denigrate
her translations by saying she didn’t put work into them, but I honest to god
think that is just How This Woman’s Mind Works. she is on “not to me, not if it’s
you” and “someone will remember us I say even in another time” levels of galaxy
brain wordcraft, but IN REAL LIFE.
I came up to her after the reading and asked her to sign my
Bacchae copy. I did not say much to her besides that I was a fan, because I got
the sense that if I formed a complete sentence in her presence she would see directly through me and reach into my body and swallow my entire ribcage like a snake.
she signed my book “regards, A.C.” I’ll never forget her.
man this is like the worst year for tech and websites
discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley
