"Objective correlative" only got into my vocabulary two weeks ago, too.

[icepixie]

My Millay essay is slowly turning into one about her intersections with Eliot and the Modernist conception of "the moment." Considering how very little I know about Eliot, and how much less I know about Modernist perception of time, this is somewhat disturbing.

*eyes paper worriedly*

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[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmm, Eliot. I'm jealous, dude.

[icepixie]

BUT I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ELIOT! *sobs*

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

What fun is writing a paper about stuff you already know?

[icepixie]

We're talking "I just read 'Prufrock' and 'The Wasteland' for the first time about a month ago"-level ignorance here. I just read the Norton introduction to Eliot a few minutes ago (and found it supremely unhelpful for what I'm trying to do). There is no way this is going to go well unless I can wrest the topic back from the abyss it's falling down.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Your paper is hanging by a thread, but as we all know, the best things happen right before the thread snaps.

...Yeah, I've been telling myself that all day. It hasn't worked on me either. I hate this paper so much right now. I just sent the abstract to a friend and asked him please to talk me out of submitting it, because if it gets accepted I will sort of hate my life.

[icepixie]

Your paper is hanging by a thread, but as we all know, the best things happen right before the thread snaps.

...Yeah, I've been telling myself that all day. It hasn't worked on me either.

Why do we put ourselves through this? We could be corporate drones making actual money and not having paper crises every month.

(Also, I think my thread snapped somewhere in the middle of page three. I need duct tape. Sweet, sweet theoretical duct tape.)

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Instead of getting paid fake money to argue about phenomenological perception of musical form? Why would I want to do that? :)