On the path to self-destruction.
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sub_dividedYesterday, 11pm, still 250 pages of reading[1] and who-knows-how-many hours of Math homework to do. Naturally, I panic and write fanfic.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, five AU drabbles
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, eight Democracy drabbles
The second set uses mostly orginal charcters, so they might(?) make sense even if you've never seen the series. Umm, maybe. (Dunno why I keep linking these things, everyone on my flist who cares about the Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a member at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
iserlohn anyway.)
ANOTHER THING. I was going through old AMVs (=Anime Music Videos), and I found two Escaflowne vids. Both of them ask the question, what if Hitomi was making it all up? But one is from the series, and one is from the (much more disturbed) movie, so they come to TOTALLY DIFFERENT conclusions. I thought that was neat, so I upped them. (They're also both REALLY REALLY good.)
Ordinary Boy (download)
To Vannessa's Carlton's "Ordinary Day." VAN/HITOMI 4EVAR (This would be the TV series).
Imaginary Escaflowne (download)
To the Evanescense song. NO WAIT DON'T GO. It's good, I swear.
[1] Bookblogging, The Footnote* by Anthony Clifton
Serious scholarly historical text. You don't have to know a million famous historians to read it -- Clifton assumes you might not, and leaves a short descriptive note for each -- but you probably won't get much out of it if there aren't already a few Big Names floating around in the back of your mind. Aside from that, it reads like bestseller non-fiction.
Clifton follows the origination/evolution of footnotes in two ways: their physical incarnation as numbered marks leading to the foot of the page (a modern invention which assumes shared libraries), and the impetus behind them (the need for authoritative sources to lend weight to the author's arguments (much older)). Clifton has a strong sense of humor -- you could probably tell from the title -- and his own book is swimming in footnotes. I skipped most of them. XD but what's interesting is that whenever he uses a non-English source, he includes the passage in its original language at the bottom.
The metaphors were my favorite part. From page 114:
...Pope commented at length on both the excellencies of his own works and the immense, irredeamible stupidity of his opponents. He used the footnote throughout as the hockey-masked villain in an American horror film uses a chain saw: to dimember his opponents, leaving their gory limbs scattered across the landscape.
From page 121, on the rise of source-criticism:
The literary food chain already included prominent, sharp-toothed annotators as well as soft, juicy authors...
So yeah, fun times. Reccommended if you like reading this kind of stuff.
* A curious history.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, five AU drabbles
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, eight Democracy drabbles
The second set uses mostly orginal charcters, so they might(?) make sense even if you've never seen the series. Umm, maybe. (Dunno why I keep linking these things, everyone on my flist who cares about the Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a member at
iserlohn anyway.)ANOTHER THING. I was going through old AMVs (=Anime Music Videos), and I found two Escaflowne vids. Both of them ask the question, what if Hitomi was making it all up? But one is from the series, and one is from the (much more disturbed) movie, so they come to TOTALLY DIFFERENT conclusions. I thought that was neat, so I upped them. (They're also both REALLY REALLY good.)
Ordinary Boy (download)
To Vannessa's Carlton's "Ordinary Day." VAN/HITOMI 4EVAR (This would be the TV series).
Imaginary Escaflowne (download)
To the Evanescense song. NO WAIT DON'T GO. It's good, I swear.
[1] Bookblogging, The Footnote* by Anthony Clifton
Serious scholarly historical text. You don't have to know a million famous historians to read it -- Clifton assumes you might not, and leaves a short descriptive note for each -- but you probably won't get much out of it if there aren't already a few Big Names floating around in the back of your mind. Aside from that, it reads like bestseller non-fiction.
Clifton follows the origination/evolution of footnotes in two ways: their physical incarnation as numbered marks leading to the foot of the page (a modern invention which assumes shared libraries), and the impetus behind them (the need for authoritative sources to lend weight to the author's arguments (much older)). Clifton has a strong sense of humor -- you could probably tell from the title -- and his own book is swimming in footnotes. I skipped most of them. XD but what's interesting is that whenever he uses a non-English source, he includes the passage in its original language at the bottom.
The metaphors were my favorite part. From page 114:
...Pope commented at length on both the excellencies of his own works and the immense, irredeamible stupidity of his opponents. He used the footnote throughout as the hockey-masked villain in an American horror film uses a chain saw: to dimember his opponents, leaving their gory limbs scattered across the landscape.
From page 121, on the rise of source-criticism:
The literary food chain already included prominent, sharp-toothed annotators as well as soft, juicy authors...
So yeah, fun times. Reccommended if you like reading this kind of stuff.
* A curious history.