I'm doing 42 things
9. Winesburg, Ohio
4 months ago
Oh, I quite liked this skewed, mythopoetic examination of a small town at the turn of the century. One can definitely see how it influenced both Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
luxperpetua's Life List
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1. stop killing spiders
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2. learn tai chi
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3. not have noodle arms anymore
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4. spend more time outside
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5. get my Ph.D. eventually
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6. cook something new every week
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7. finish my Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book
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8. publish story to literotica
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9. make a mobile
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10. quit smoking
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11. produce regular issues of my zine
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12. finish my cycle of Baldr poems
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13. call people back
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14. Own a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
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15. read every book I own
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16. write a novel
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17. Find several local bands I like and go see them regularly
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18. own a Great Dane
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19. read 50 books in 2009
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20. write more letters
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21. See the Top 100 Foreign Films
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22. read Proust's In Search of Lost Time
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23. learn to bake bread
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24. learn to make a good lentil soup
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25. read the donald barthelme syllabus
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26. be kinder to those i love
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27. Become fluent in more than one language
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28. Go to Mardi Gras
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29. have a bomba party
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30. have a dinner party
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31. spend less time on the internet
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32. write more often
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33. have a fancy tea party
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34. see the Flaming Lips live
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35. make more friends
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36. watch the AFI Top 100 American movies
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37. submit zines to a distro
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38. eat more raw food
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39. learn the constellations
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40. learn how to drive stick-shift
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41. see the northern lights
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42. buy more prints
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Recent entries
8. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
4 months ago
I’m fond of Hemingway if he keeps to vignettes, which is why his short stories work for me and his novels don’t (with the exception of The Sun Also Rises). That said, I basically approve of all the description of war; I just don’t like the love story.
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4 months ago
Ergh. This is a book that is taught in high school for clear reasons. It’s very obvious why it’s important, but it was a rather tedious, didactic slog.
