Thursday, May 05, 2005

Ridiculormque?!?

Last seminar as a junior (God, let's hope!) tonight. It was on the sonnets, so i knew it wasn't going to be good. What's that, something in my eye, you say? You don't like the sonnets? No! I do & that's the point. What I don't like is dissecting poetry, discussing it, analyzing it. Mr Baer said that if you write something beautiful you have a moral obligation to share it with others. Nonsense! Then other people (the ones who always latch onto whatever he says & run w/ it) started trying to support that but even Mr Baer was saying that their arguments were silly. Sometimes I think he says ridiculous things just to see who would side with him. He was smirking. Apparently Mr Baer never had a secret garden that no one in the world knew about that he could crawl into and revel in his hidden delight. I guess I never really did either, not literally anyway, but I saw its appeal. We all need our little secret delights, if for no other reason than to have a refuge from a sometimes suffocating life. I'm antcipating Neoteronous disagreeing w/ me for disagreeing w/ Baer, given his (Danny's) insights ( and very profound and true ones at that) into the nature of love and its eccentricity. I maybe am not making sense, but so what- it's my blog!!! te-hee-hee. haven't slept more than 6 hours total the last 3 nights. Today's 05-05-05! The next time that happens we'll all be long gone. I'm gonna get some sleep now.

1 comment:

The Smoker said...

Even if Man's Ultimate Purpose is to love others, he needs to be strong enough to do that. "Secret Gardens" can be the means by which we refresh ourselves to approach the next opportunity to love. Personal time is a practical necessity, even if it is because of our fallen nature/corruptable bodies.

J. John Baer deserves no default respect as a tutor. Make him earn it. He does the same to the students.