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This Oxford tutorial requires a paper a week (which doesn't count the three papers required for the social change class; I have to write a lot of freaking papers this quarter). I haven't started my paper for this coming Wednesday. I need to, but instead I keep doing silly futile things like getting into Internet fights and going to clubs.

It is weird that I keep going to clubs. I had never gone to one before arriving in England, and now I go like twice a week. I am maybe just still the slightest bit tipsy from tonight's outing, and I want to tell everyone about this thing that I am thinking, because the alcohol has taken the place of the self-restraint molecules in my bloodstream.

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land was the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" of 1922.


How do we feel about this? I know at least one of you cares enough about both works to evaluate that statement, even if the rest of you are goldurned philistines.
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peterlake From: [info]peterlake Date: May 3rd, 2008 06:59 am (UTC) (Link)
I feel awesome about that, to answer your question.

but later, when I am not drunk and feeling ill and it is not 3am and it is much later today and I am bored at work, I will actually evaluate the works in terms of each other.

for now, I say thee yea.
palemoonrises From: [info]palemoonrises Date: May 3rd, 2008 04:40 pm (UTC) (Link)
Whoa papers. Too many.

And it's not too weird that you keep going to clubs. Dancing with a bunch of people is fun. Estoy muy celoso de te.

Are the clubs there as good as movies say?
From: (Anonymous) Date: May 18th, 2008 04:12 am (UTC) (Link)
Cobain and Eliot get compared all the time. Their writing styles were markedly similar in that fragmented, "heap of broken images" style with the same themes of desolation, alienation, and depression. And since Teen Spirit was Cobain's masterpiece, and "The Waste Land" Eliot's the comparison checks out. I don't know the history of Eliot's career as well as Cobain's, whether his work was as emblematic and immediately influential as Cobain's is up to you. After all, in pop music you can get away with imitating someone, in poetry, as we all know, it is better to steal.

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