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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
I have lost all desire
to speak my own words- maybe
they've finally
beat me.
I guess I'll go read now
what someone else wrote.
I bet they finally found
something that made them proud.
Just posting so I wont lose it- when computers crash and paper burns.
I couldn't take a picture,
so I'm writing this instead.
We passed a mountain two miles back
that looked like a bald head.
but we traveled by too fast
and I don't think that the cool part was
the clearing or the grass.
The interesting thing wasn't
simply the image- no,
what struck me was that there, the trees
decided not to grow.
I guess I couldn't say all this
in a color photo.
My camera decided not to work,
and rightly so.
(
)
)Monday, June 14, 2010
I Spy
Sometimes people ask why everyone in my family is so SMART.
Thing is,
I don't think we are
especially intelligent.
We've just been weathered.
(...get it?)
For example, that calendar begs the question- "What exactly is a fractal?" 
and Danny was just trying to be like his big brothers and their chemistry homework- he wanted a Periodic Table of his very own. How could any mom say no to THAT request? 
Old projects still teach. Old maps frequently change. 
and it's hard to understand what's going on in the world if you don't know what it looks like. It's not oppressive either- it's tasteful.
No, no... you're thinking of the wrong taste buds.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Seems to me I'm wasting time.
The grass is made of sugar
and the flowers sing to me
but it feels like for a while now
I've ben up a wooden tree.
and the flowers sing to me
but it feels like for a while now
I've ben up a wooden tree.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Love is a potato.
Have you ever seen a potato grow?
Have you ever seen a grown potato?
Have you ever fallen in love?
When I was little, I watched a television show called ZOOM. They always had a segment
where a guy in bright blue denimn overalls taught an at-home science experiment.
Once, he taught me how to build a potato obstacle course- a cardboard box with a hole in one end.
The gist of it is, the potato's single-minded little tendrils
go around, through
and over all of the obstacles
and finally our hero finds the light source
after about a month and a half.
Which seems to me a long time for an at-home science experiment.
Right now, I am laying in my bed with the quilt pulled up to my ears
(right next to the sides of my smile)
because after two hours of Julie Andrews and nuns and singing children,
the potato found the sun.
Have you ever seen a grown potato?
Have you ever fallen in love?
When I was little, I watched a television show called ZOOM. They always had a segment
where a guy in bright blue denimn overalls taught an at-home science experiment.
Once, he taught me how to build a potato obstacle course- a cardboard box with a hole in one end.
The gist of it is, the potato's single-minded little tendrils
go around, through
and over all of the obstacles
and finally our hero finds the light source
after about a month and a half.
Which seems to me a long time for an at-home science experiment.
Right now, I am laying in my bed with the quilt pulled up to my ears
(right next to the sides of my smile)
because after two hours of Julie Andrews and nuns and singing children,
the potato found the sun.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
So all at one time
I know what's right
I see the right ones flashing
I'm one big crime.
I could be fixed up
I might look so dashing
But dashing to you
and dashing to me
aren't always the same thing.
-----
So all in one thought
I want you to love me
I don't want to slip
off my horse
But that can not
mean making myself
something that flows
the wrong course.
It might seem all good
for the first moment
But I'll hate myself tomorrow.
Not for the act; for the follow.
It seems wrong to you
It's prideful, I know
but I can't take any way
just cause you want me to go.
---
You know, it may be the right.
But the only way I'll ever realize
is if you let me
open my eyes.
I see the right ones flashing
I'm one big crime.
I could be fixed up
I might look so dashing
But dashing to you
and dashing to me
aren't always the same thing.
-----
So all in one thought
I want you to love me
I don't want to slip
off my horse
But that can not
mean making myself
something that flows
the wrong course.
It might seem all good
for the first moment
But I'll hate myself tomorrow.
Not for the act; for the follow.
It seems wrong to you
It's prideful, I know
but I can't take any way
just cause you want me to go.
---
You know, it may be the right.
But the only way I'll ever realize
is if you let me
open my eyes.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
-thank-you-
Emily,
"Hate" is a strong word. Perhaps you should rethink using it so vehemently. Contrary to your feelings about the class, I enjoyed having you in it. Your poetry was inspirational to read. Your comments during literary discussions was helpful and insightful and your portrayal of Roxane was right on. In the future, try to think of english classes as just another pathway to information- some weeds along the way, but maybe a few flowers too.
Mrs. Goodloe
"Hate" is a strong word. Perhaps you should rethink using it so vehemently. Contrary to your feelings about the class, I enjoyed having you in it. Your poetry was inspirational to read. Your comments during literary discussions was helpful and insightful and your portrayal of Roxane was right on. In the future, try to think of english classes as just another pathway to information- some weeds along the way, but maybe a few flowers too.
Mrs. Goodloe
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
YEAH! FAILING TESTS TOMORROW!
THE INFERNO- quickest summary EVER
So the story starts out with Dante in the dark wood of error.
He decides he’s going to change, so he tries to climb up this hill, but the leopard of malice and fraud, the she-wolf of incontinence, and the lion of violence and ambition stop him. Then Virgil, the famous poet, finds him and leads him to the gates of Hell cause that’s the only other way to get where he wants to go. Dante’s kind of freaking out about not being worthy enough. Three ladies from Heaven come and greet them, to help Dante out a bit. Beatrice, his love, and her good friends Saint Lucia and the Virgin Mary all say hello and bless Dante. They walk through the gate of Hell (it says “ABANDON ALL HOPE”) and they can hear the wailings of souls in torment. Then they’re in the vestibule of Hell with the opportunists- people who did not choose good or evil, and also the angels who didn’t pick a side in the War in Heaven. They get to the Acheron, the first river of Hell. Old man Cheron’s the ferryman. Dante faints as a kind of segue.
They get to the first Circle of Hell, made for the people who either were born before Jesus or who didn’t embrace him later. It also houses the great heathen thinkers like Virgil, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Homer, who can hang out there in relative comfort.
The second circle is that of the Carnals… the people who just COULDN’T wait till marriage. Also called the Lustfuls. They’re in a cyclone. A bunch of famous lovers are there. Minos from Greek mythology is there too- he assigns everyone who passes their punishment. He whips the sinners with his tail-once for every level they must go down. Dante faints again cause he feels bad for Paolo and Francesca (from Ovid’s Metamorphoses). The Inferno is packed with fictional characters.
The Third Circle of Hell is for the gluttons. They’re guarded by Cerberus, a three-headed dog like in Harry Potter. The sinners are showering in excrement. Dante sees Ciacco the Hog, another Florentine. They chat about politics.
The fourth Circle is for the Hoarders and the Wasters, with their big rocks symbolizing the weight of money. Their faces are gone cause they let money rule who they were. They’re guarded by Plutus, a demon.
The fifth circle is for the Wrathful and the Sullen. They’re in the marsh of Styx, the second waterway of Hell. The wrathful are wrestling in the mud, and the sullen are being downers and chanting the medieval equivalent of emo music while they choke and get stepped on.
Phlegyas, a pyromaniac from Greek mythology, talks to them from his flaming tower then ferries them across the Styx, because he’s the boatman. From the boat, Dante recognized his old acquaintance Fillipo Argenti, and has no pity for the sinner. Virgil looks upon Dante’s hardening heart with approval.
Outside of the city of Dis, the poets meet Medusa and the Furies. An angel messenger comes and helps them get through the fallen angel guards. The heretical and sacrilegious are stuck in tombs of fire. Farinata and Calvacante de Calvacanti talk to Dante about the living.
As they walk into the seventh circle, Dante and Virgil smell something so awful they have to sit on a Pope to handle it. A Pope’s grave, that is. They talk about the levels of sinning, and why God hates usury more than premarital relations. Going into the circle, they meet the Minotaur, but they’re able to sneak past him. They come to the river of blood, the Phlegython, punishing those violent against their neighbors. Centaurs with bows shoot the sinners trying to better their position in Hell and come up for air. The centaur’s leader, Chiron, (not Cheron, the ferryman, but ChEEron) appoints another centaur, Nessus, to be Dante’s mount in this circle.
The second round of the seventh circle is for those violent against themselves. They’re trees. Dante breaks a branch off a tree and the tree speaks to him. This is a perfect metaphor for the fact that the suicidal express themselves in life through their own destruction. Harpies, woman-birds, peck at the trees. Vicious dogs eat a guy named Jacomo.
The third round of the seventh circle is a big desert wasteland with fire raining down on everybody. This is for three kinds of people. Dante sees the blasphemers, violent against God, who lie down on the hot sand. Sodomites, violent against nature, have to walk around forever in the raining fire. Usurers, violent against art, have big purses with their family crests blazed on that they have to stare at. Virgil explains about the Old Man of Crete, a statue that cries about how far humanity has fallen. Brunetto Latini, a sodomite, recognizes Dante, but Dante dismisses him. Dante is wearing this cord as a belt and Virgil takes it and throws it into a pit. A huge monster named Geryon is summoned and chats with Virgil for a while.
Dante climbs onto Geryon’s back and they descend into the eighth circle.
The Eighth Circle, also known as Malebolge, is a group of ten concentric pits, each for a different type of fraud. Really fast-
1 is for pimps and seducers
2 is for the flatterers
3 is for simoniacs- power abusers
4 is for fortune-tellers
5 is for grafters, swimming in pitch
6 is lead-clothed hippocrites
7 is for snake-covered thieves
8 is evil counselors- driven by greed
9 is sowers of discord-
Religious, political, and Bertrand de Born
10 is for the falsifiers-
Cause nobody trusted them, their senses are liars.
They’re made up of alchemists, evil impersonators
Counterfeiters, and true witness haters.
Now we’re heading down to Circle Nine-
I’m done with rhyming- I hope that’s fine.
They continue down to the edge of a circular pit- the final circle of Hell, the edge of which is populated by giants. Antaneus, a giant, takes them down to where the Traitors spend their eternities.
Circle Nine is called Cocytus, the final waterway of hell. It’s a frozen set of concentric circles with Satan in the middle. The outer circle, Caina (like Cain and Abel) is for traitors to kin. The second ring is called Antenora, after Antenor, a Trojan warrior who betrayed his army to Spartan ambassadors. They were warring with Sparta, so that was bad. In Antenora, those who betrayed their homeland or political party are frozen. Dante sees Ugulino chewing on Rugieri here. Then there’s Ptolomea, after Ptolomy, an Egyptian king who slew his guest Pompey. This circle is for those treacherous to guests and hosts. They’re pretty much all frozen over. Judecca is the middle circle. It’s named after Judas Iscariot, Jesus’ disciple who betrayed him to Pontius Pilate. This circle is for those treacherous against their masters. They’re completely submerged in ice.
The center circle is Satan. He’s huge, smelly, with three heads, and two bat-like wings under each head. He’s chewing on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas all at the same time. Satan’s hairy torso sticks out from the ice. The cold flap of his wings keeps Cocytus frozen.
Dante and Virgil climb down The Devil’s leg, then the whole world like… flips around, then they’re facing up again. Dante is understandably confused. It’s actually… symbolic. Then the pair climbs down again and find themselves next to Satan’s hairy legs in this hollow at the center of the earth. There’s a little stream running through, called the Lethe. It’s the river of forgetfulness. And that’s the end of the book!
So the story starts out with Dante in the dark wood of error.
He decides he’s going to change, so he tries to climb up this hill, but the leopard of malice and fraud, the she-wolf of incontinence, and the lion of violence and ambition stop him. Then Virgil, the famous poet, finds him and leads him to the gates of Hell cause that’s the only other way to get where he wants to go. Dante’s kind of freaking out about not being worthy enough. Three ladies from Heaven come and greet them, to help Dante out a bit. Beatrice, his love, and her good friends Saint Lucia and the Virgin Mary all say hello and bless Dante. They walk through the gate of Hell (it says “ABANDON ALL HOPE”) and they can hear the wailings of souls in torment. Then they’re in the vestibule of Hell with the opportunists- people who did not choose good or evil, and also the angels who didn’t pick a side in the War in Heaven. They get to the Acheron, the first river of Hell. Old man Cheron’s the ferryman. Dante faints as a kind of segue.
They get to the first Circle of Hell, made for the people who either were born before Jesus or who didn’t embrace him later. It also houses the great heathen thinkers like Virgil, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Homer, who can hang out there in relative comfort.
The second circle is that of the Carnals… the people who just COULDN’T wait till marriage. Also called the Lustfuls. They’re in a cyclone. A bunch of famous lovers are there. Minos from Greek mythology is there too- he assigns everyone who passes their punishment. He whips the sinners with his tail-once for every level they must go down. Dante faints again cause he feels bad for Paolo and Francesca (from Ovid’s Metamorphoses). The Inferno is packed with fictional characters.
The Third Circle of Hell is for the gluttons. They’re guarded by Cerberus, a three-headed dog like in Harry Potter. The sinners are showering in excrement. Dante sees Ciacco the Hog, another Florentine. They chat about politics.
The fourth Circle is for the Hoarders and the Wasters, with their big rocks symbolizing the weight of money. Their faces are gone cause they let money rule who they were. They’re guarded by Plutus, a demon.
The fifth circle is for the Wrathful and the Sullen. They’re in the marsh of Styx, the second waterway of Hell. The wrathful are wrestling in the mud, and the sullen are being downers and chanting the medieval equivalent of emo music while they choke and get stepped on.
Phlegyas, a pyromaniac from Greek mythology, talks to them from his flaming tower then ferries them across the Styx, because he’s the boatman. From the boat, Dante recognized his old acquaintance Fillipo Argenti, and has no pity for the sinner. Virgil looks upon Dante’s hardening heart with approval.
Outside of the city of Dis, the poets meet Medusa and the Furies. An angel messenger comes and helps them get through the fallen angel guards. The heretical and sacrilegious are stuck in tombs of fire. Farinata and Calvacante de Calvacanti talk to Dante about the living.
As they walk into the seventh circle, Dante and Virgil smell something so awful they have to sit on a Pope to handle it. A Pope’s grave, that is. They talk about the levels of sinning, and why God hates usury more than premarital relations. Going into the circle, they meet the Minotaur, but they’re able to sneak past him. They come to the river of blood, the Phlegython, punishing those violent against their neighbors. Centaurs with bows shoot the sinners trying to better their position in Hell and come up for air. The centaur’s leader, Chiron, (not Cheron, the ferryman, but ChEEron) appoints another centaur, Nessus, to be Dante’s mount in this circle.
The second round of the seventh circle is for those violent against themselves. They’re trees. Dante breaks a branch off a tree and the tree speaks to him. This is a perfect metaphor for the fact that the suicidal express themselves in life through their own destruction. Harpies, woman-birds, peck at the trees. Vicious dogs eat a guy named Jacomo.
The third round of the seventh circle is a big desert wasteland with fire raining down on everybody. This is for three kinds of people. Dante sees the blasphemers, violent against God, who lie down on the hot sand. Sodomites, violent against nature, have to walk around forever in the raining fire. Usurers, violent against art, have big purses with their family crests blazed on that they have to stare at. Virgil explains about the Old Man of Crete, a statue that cries about how far humanity has fallen. Brunetto Latini, a sodomite, recognizes Dante, but Dante dismisses him. Dante is wearing this cord as a belt and Virgil takes it and throws it into a pit. A huge monster named Geryon is summoned and chats with Virgil for a while.
Dante climbs onto Geryon’s back and they descend into the eighth circle.
The Eighth Circle, also known as Malebolge, is a group of ten concentric pits, each for a different type of fraud. Really fast-
1 is for pimps and seducers
2 is for the flatterers
3 is for simoniacs- power abusers
4 is for fortune-tellers
5 is for grafters, swimming in pitch
6 is lead-clothed hippocrites
7 is for snake-covered thieves
8 is evil counselors- driven by greed
9 is sowers of discord-
Religious, political, and Bertrand de Born
10 is for the falsifiers-
Cause nobody trusted them, their senses are liars.
They’re made up of alchemists, evil impersonators
Counterfeiters, and true witness haters.
Now we’re heading down to Circle Nine-
I’m done with rhyming- I hope that’s fine.
They continue down to the edge of a circular pit- the final circle of Hell, the edge of which is populated by giants. Antaneus, a giant, takes them down to where the Traitors spend their eternities.
Circle Nine is called Cocytus, the final waterway of hell. It’s a frozen set of concentric circles with Satan in the middle. The outer circle, Caina (like Cain and Abel) is for traitors to kin. The second ring is called Antenora, after Antenor, a Trojan warrior who betrayed his army to Spartan ambassadors. They were warring with Sparta, so that was bad. In Antenora, those who betrayed their homeland or political party are frozen. Dante sees Ugulino chewing on Rugieri here. Then there’s Ptolomea, after Ptolomy, an Egyptian king who slew his guest Pompey. This circle is for those treacherous to guests and hosts. They’re pretty much all frozen over. Judecca is the middle circle. It’s named after Judas Iscariot, Jesus’ disciple who betrayed him to Pontius Pilate. This circle is for those treacherous against their masters. They’re completely submerged in ice.
The center circle is Satan. He’s huge, smelly, with three heads, and two bat-like wings under each head. He’s chewing on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas all at the same time. Satan’s hairy torso sticks out from the ice. The cold flap of his wings keeps Cocytus frozen.
Dante and Virgil climb down The Devil’s leg, then the whole world like… flips around, then they’re facing up again. Dante is understandably confused. It’s actually… symbolic. Then the pair climbs down again and find themselves next to Satan’s hairy legs in this hollow at the center of the earth. There’s a little stream running through, called the Lethe. It’s the river of forgetfulness. And that’s the end of the book!
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