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cimorenethe study abroad advisor has been really nice through this whole thing. if you could review colleges, he'd be one of maybe three things about amherst that got any good marks. the deadlines are pretty much past for the fall everywhere, but he's helping me look into denmark and sweden as 'other scandinavian places.' how much simpler would this be if not for the necessity of lying? (don't worry, i don't feel *guilty*, just faintly regretful about the effort involved. that's me, black to the core!) living with ze parents is miserable as i'm sure pretty much everyone i know can agree from their own personal experience; however, it's free (or better than, since they keep buying me things too). and this way i will be able to go to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollsk's wedding.
nemoricultrix, i am crazy. i spelled it wrong. christopher lowell.
finished dune yesterday morning. whoa. got out dune messiah but i haven't started it. i was going to make a carrot cake instead. and then i fell asleep. anyway, there's what i consider a... not un-justified but really very baffling comparison with tolkien on the back cover. because, i mean, they're both richly imagined, and they're both adventure fantasy, i suppose. but i think that's deceptive; they're not the same kind of thing at all. dune was is an invented myth; LOTR is an invented history made on an armature of real myths. that may be sophistry. it's my current best shot at explaining. but you can read them and see how very different the feeling of each is. (and while dune is very thorough, i doubt the world is built as thoroughly as middle-earth, whatever the reviewer may say, and not to insult herbert's impressive skill in the least. the novels are only the tiniest fraction of the world-building tolkien did and, i think, not even essential to it. the world was far more important to him.)
hollsk's wedding.nemoricultrix, i am crazy. i spelled it wrong. christopher lowell.finished dune yesterday morning. whoa. got out dune messiah but i haven't started it. i was going to make a carrot cake instead. and then i fell asleep. anyway, there's what i consider a... not un-justified but really very baffling comparison with tolkien on the back cover. because, i mean, they're both richly imagined, and they're both adventure fantasy, i suppose. but i think that's deceptive; they're not the same kind of thing at all. dune was is an invented myth; LOTR is an invented history made on an armature of real myths. that may be sophistry. it's my current best shot at explaining. but you can read them and see how very different the feeling of each is. (and while dune is very thorough, i doubt the world is built as thoroughly as middle-earth, whatever the reviewer may say, and not to insult herbert's impressive skill in the least. the novels are only the tiniest fraction of the world-building tolkien did and, i think, not even essential to it. the world was far more important to him.)
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Date: 29 Apr 2003 04:37 pm (UTC)*goes back to studying for italian final* because really, who wants their sanity anyway?
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Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:19 am (UTC)And its Sept. 20th for sure now.
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Date: 30 Apr 2003 12:28 pm (UTC)