Mode for Caleb: Moody work

Saturday, January 08, 2005

Moody work

"Writing a dissertation is moody work." This is what I wrote in an email earlier this week to a former teacher and friend who discovered this blog. "My advisor tells me that if you're not bipolar going into it, you will be coming out, and I've found that to be true -- no, false -- no, true -- no, false."

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"I wish to be a spokesman of the doubt that the great difficulties of our time can be solved by violence." Wendell Berry

"I enjoy the quietude of soliloquizing and communing with the spirit of history. This spirit is ... brotherly, akin to us in another and deeper sense than are the denizens of bush and field. These exertions are like Jacob's wrestling -- a sure gain for the wrestler himself. Indeed this is what matters first of all." Count Yorck von Wartenburg

"Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
W. H. Auden
From "September 1, 1939"

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