Thursday, June 05, 2008

In How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, French literature professor talks about how you should not read books and ways to hide it if you encounter awkward situations regarding books you have not read. In my own screen book terms, this book teaches you a few good points:

1) Reading a book is equivalent to non-reading. Every moment that you are reading, you forget what you have just read. At the end of the book, the memory you retain of it is not of the book itself, but of your thoughts, feelings and associations with it. Reading = Non-reading.

2) To talk about a book you haven't read, simply base your judgment on key things that tell you more about the book than the book itself. The author, his peers, his previous style, which genre or collective library the book falls into, and even the reviews of other people can be used as a judgment tool.

Actually this book is really cheem. (pardon the pun) Maybe because some of the text was probably lost in translation, but I felt that I can understand, but only barely the tip of the iceberg. Like i grasped some smoke in my hands. Oh well, philosophizing sometimes can be cool too.

On other notes, I'm hmm...... restless. Came back from dinner with Ginny and I realised that today I spent $30! Ho ho. Gonna go broke soon. This spending really has to stop. Wanted to go running at about 11.30 but hmm.. not too safe eh. I mean i really had the urge to run. but i guess i'll meet into a lot of traffic lights and thats not good for running. trying to fit running into my schedule is seriously a pain in the ass. unless i want to give up my morning sleep hours, its just impossible to find a time to go running. i have classes twice a week. and in between, theres meetings, dinners, friends, yq etc etc etc. So how the heck do i fit running into my schedule if i cant schedule it at 11.30 at night? Its just so frustrating that when finally i've gotten off my balls to want to do something about that horrendous physique then i have to face so many obstacles. im already trying to make time. i hate this, it seems like i have less time than during the school term.

Ok, rant over. now i need to do my exercice de francais.

Mrs Brightside at 1:08 am

{xoxo}