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[danuv]

J found me a great piece of software called VoodooPad that basically lets me create my own little Wikipedia with all my reading notes. I even started a list of all the people that I want to learn more about. It's still really very short, I'll toss it in a comment for anyone who might be interested. Probably by Monday it will have doubled. That's how I end up getting into new topics, I read about someone who sparks my interest, read up on them, find someone else, follow that trail and on and on. I'm sure it isn't a very unusual method.

I watched Mona Lisa Smile yesterday and it got me to wondering what the point of all my learning and yearning to go to college is. I don't intend to do anything very beneficial to society with it, I'm just incredible selfishly curious. Is it really worth being away from the people I love, probably incurring a large amount of debt, and dealing with studying a lot of things I could give a rat's ass about just to have a piece of paper that says 'Yes, Chava satisfied her curiosity for X years!"? I don't have any real desire to teach or do anything very productive. I just want to learn. Is that in itself productive? Is there any real value in learning for the sake of learning?

Fuck if I know.

I've been a bit on the deflated side of late. Considering trying out hypnosis to help me sleep. Wonder if that would work.

Rhiannon starts kindergarten on the 9th. Yeah, I'm the mother of a school age child. Scary stuff. It will be good for her. She told me today that we needed to get an air purifier because her daddy told her there were germs everywhere and she does not like germs. That was after she asked what eggs were made from. What the hell are eggs made from? I don't think I really want to know. We're all better off believing that eggs are a primal substance. Egg. Eggs are egg. That's quite enough information. Curiosity sated. Thank you and goodnight.

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I'm certain there are spelling errors in the list. Cope.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

Man Ray (No! Three books are not enough!)
Berenice Abbot
Eugene Atget
Walker Evans
Albert Rengor-Patzch
Phillipe Soupault
Alfred Stieglitz
Adrienne Monnier
Andre Breton
Louis Aragon
Tristan Tzara
Alfred Jarry
Foujita
Aurthur Cravan
Kiki (Alice Prin)
Ezra Pound
Jean Cocteau
Chaim Soutine
Nancy Cunard
Raymond Radiguet
Paul Eluard
Erik Satie
Max Jacob
Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia
Guillaume Apollinaire
Amedeo Modigliani
Isidore Ducasse
Henri-Pierre Roche
Gertrude Stein
Yves Tanguy
Marquise Casati
Romaine Brooks


Rather heavy on the photographers at the moment because I am reading a Man Ray bio. There are people in the list I already know something about but want to know more or want to clarify, organize, and memorize clearly what I do already know. It looks so teeny because already I can think of dozens and dozens that need to go on there. Aren't even any dancers yet. Gods.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Curiosity can be enough. And who knows - curiosity may inspire action, which is the utility of it. It doesn't matter if you change the world - it'll change you.
That said, you're the best judge on how it'll impact your life.

And it may teach you about eggs. Depending on the class, it may teach you about the biology and physical make-up...or it may teach you about the essential component that is EGG. Ah, college.

[macaholic.livejournal.com]

:O

Thanks for the link to voodoopad

[thehangedman.livejournal.com]

Anatomy of an egg. And Alton had a show about eggs ("The Egg Files") where he described what eggs were made of. Or... You can just think of them as "egg".

[danuv.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've known what they were and decided I was best off not remembering that piece of information. Egg.