I sent the below in an email to one of my friends in my Joyce class and thought I should post it here too:

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant.”
–James Joyce

“I’ve put in so many unintentional enigmas and puzzles in my Joyce paper that it will keep the professor busy for hours trying to figure our what I meant.”
–Trent Hergenrader

I’m woefully behind in my independent study paper (read as “haven’t started yet and still doing research”) which has been narrowed down once again. “California as Utopia” was a good handle to put together a reading list but it’s more of a dissertation-sized question, so I’m focusing only on drug use in Butler’s Parable novels, The Gold Coast, and in the work of Philip K Dick, mostly A Scanner Darkly.

I’ve been zipping through Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K Dick, The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick, and Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words. All of them are fascinating. I plan on reading them more slowly when time permits.

Which will be sometimes in 2023.

Current Mood: Overworked |
Currently Listening To – Bob Dylan – “Ten of Swords (Disc 7)”