Eveline Tarunadjaja

kind of religion

pen and marker on paper © 2007

http://www.lovexevol.com/


Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I could care less about the Jonas brothers playing at halftime, thanks. Nor do I care about the Cowboys vs. the Seahawks.
<3

The brilliance of words

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

-Sylvia Plath
Mad Girls Love Song

Early Resolution

My life has become increasingly disorganized and out of control. So, I have decided to abstain from friends and the boyfriend until the end of the semester, save for Thanksgiving break.

In the meantime, I will:
Save money.
Concentrate fully on school, because I don't want to go home due to bad grades. Though really, it isn't going to be an issue.
And grow plants!:

Dahlias

Narcissus

Orchids!

Mint

Violets

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES!

La Boheme

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century. Bohemians were associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment political or social viewpoints, which were often expressed through non-marital sexual relations and frugality. The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gypsy, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits. Bohemian lifestyle is something that has transcended into literature, plays and film. According to myself, I feel this is something very underrated and should RISE RISE RISE into the city culture, and invade the streets of today.
.... A Bohemian is simply an artist who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art.
Apparently there are five types of bohemian one could be, which are:

• Nouveau, bohemians with money who attempt to join traditional bohemianism with contemporary culture
• Gypsy, drifters, neo-hippies, and others with nostalgia for previous, romanticized eras
• Beat, also drifters, but non-materialist and art-focused
• Zen, "post-beat," focus on spirituality rather than art
• Dandy, no money, but try to appear as if they have it by expensive or rare items - such as alcohol

Neat Word.

"CANCRINE/ˈkæŋkraɪn/

Palindromic.

This one is as defunct a word as you are likely to meet in this section, since its sense of something that reads the same backwards as forwards has entirely been taken over by the much more common palindromic and I can find only one recent example. It really contains within itself more of an idea of going sideways than backwards, since it derives from the Latin cancrinus, relating to a crab. But it has been used in particular to refer to a type of Latin verse that is the same in either direction; the example usually quoted is “Signa te signa. Temere me tangis et angis. / Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor”, each half of which is cancrine (It was supposedly said by the Devil to St Martin, who had changed him into a donkey and ridden him to Rome. In translation: “Cross thyself, you plague and vex me without need. For by my efforts you are about to reach Rome, the object of your travel”.) It doesn’t refer only to verse though: Bach’s Crab Canon, which is a musical palindrome, has also been described as cancrine."

It's so great how older writing styles were so much more in depth than the reader thought! That Latin phrase is really cool, I wonder how long it took the "supposer" of the phrase to come up with that so it was cancrine and made sense.

PS Totally ridiculous girl crush on Cassie:

Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-can1.htm

Deliciousness

I have no words to speak, this speaks for itself.

A Fresh Start.

Ever since I moved to Philadelphia, I have always been in awe of the Free Library on Vine Street. This is the first time I have actually been inside. You know, there's really nothing like a huge, cold library. Library cards get me excited. I have a collection of library cards from different places I have lived. One time I got a library card when I was moving away a few days later.

After voting today, I decided that it was so perfectly rainy, why not go to the library to get some work done? I have plenty of reading to do for classes; fortunately I'm enjoying all of the books assigned to me.

I'm in a little room with one other desk and books surrounding me. The smell of old books that have been flipped through and put back for who knows how long should be made into a candle or something. Remember how Carrie Bradshaw initially wanted to get married in that library in New York? What a great idea.

Photo Credit:
West Special Reading Room, now the Database and Newspaper Center of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 1927. History of the Free Library of Philadelphia Archive, The Free Library, Philadelphia. 2002. The Free Library of Philadelphia. 4 Nov. 2008 .