13 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You probably won’t hear from me again until this weekend. I have the deadline for my PhD upgrade on Friday and I still have massive amounts of work to do. If I stay up until 3:00 a.m. each night, I might just make it.
Right about now I’m starting to wonder if it was smart to choose Fight Club as one of the novels I’m examining for the academic part of my dissertation. I could have chosen Jane Austen or something. What is wrong with me?
Fight Club has lines like this:
“It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.”
or this:
“Everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Anything you’re ever proud of will be thrown away.”
I also get to write about the fear of castration and all sorts of fun things. This is such a strange subject matter for a feminist like me to be writing about. On the bright side, I’m hoping to be the only person in the history of my university to submit a dissertation with the sentence “F–k Martha Stewart” in it. Fingers crossed.
Anglofille said @ 11:51 pm | academia |
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Good luck with everything!! I’m sure you’ll do very well
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Gregory Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 8:20 amI would hold back on the f MS thing, there is a lot to be said for being a soccer mom in a gated community, I’ll be straight with ya, using bad assed words like sh*t, B*tch, F*ck, d*bt, c*llege and W*rk, that just marks you out as a liberal on the slide.
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Mam'zelle Lulu Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pmGood luck! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
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s. Says:
May 16th, 2008 at 6:53 pmOh, I remember the days! I hope that you are hanging in there!
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Hey! I like Martha Stewart! Don’t diss my diva!
But I do enjoy Palahniuk’s writing! Have you read his stories?
I haven’t finished Fight Club yet- but am working on it!
