Saturday, June 09, 2007
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Fur's
I cried after reading
Venus in Furs. Embarrassing! But not as embarrassing as the way people look at me two seconds after they read the title and realize who the author is. Because of this, I have, half in prudence and half in shame, covered the book with a page I've torn from a magazine. Now I am able to enjoy my book in peace.
Ha! You fools. Hasn't anybody every told you not to judge a book by its cover? Sure, there's an Asian woman with her left breast exposed while her eyes are half-closed in ecstasy. But, hard as it is for you little fledglings to understand, not everything in this world is about sex.
In my defense I say that it is an incredible story of love. And it is. From it I've learned that love is pain and that pain is, in a twisted way, its very own pleasure (But then again, hasn't Candy always taught me this?). But along with that I have learned that pain has its limits, and that those limits exist for love as well. And that, my dear ones, is the salvation. Limits.
So we love, we suffer, but only until we've had enough, only until we've reached our limit.
The verdict: Work of genius. Worth every penny.
---------------On to Milan Kundera's
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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kitten posted @ 9:44 PM
Randoms things about me
I'm Kitten :)
I get a year older every 17th of August. I am a Leo, and I carry all traits associated with that zodiac.
Right now, I'm twenty years old and I'm loving it. They say we're only as young as we feel. I feel like I'm five.
I would never leave the house without my Zen and my E2. The latter connects me to the world; the former takes me away from it.
If I were to choose a word to describe my life, that word would be
crazy.
I am in love with the stars. I am in love with the rain.
I am a Rutgers University student, and I want to graduate with an English degree. An English-Psych double major would be nice. An English-TCert would be even better.
I want to be a teacher. I want to be writer. I want to be both.
I thrive on indie and emo. Mae, The Spill Canvas, Copeland and Daphne Loves Derby - these are the guys that I listen to. I listen to other bands here and there, but mostly those are the bands I follow. That being said, I'm a mainstream moron.
There's no feeling more lovely than being carried away. People don't usually think of me as somebody spontaneous, but I like being swept away as much as the next girl.
I fall in love easily, but it is really hard for me to fall out. Really hard.
I am very fragile.
I am tolerant of almost everything except one thing: intolerance.
I am an extensive reader. I thirst only for meaning, nothing else.
I love my friends <3
I am extremely spiritual but not religious.
Things I want to do in my life time
Get a job.- Save up enough money to go back home -
wherever that is if I ever had one before I'm 40.
- Write a book.
- Sing for a Disney movie.
- Buy a house on top of a hill.
- Go bunjee jumping.
Travel halfway around the world.- See Italy.
Find the one person who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time.Draw and paint.Learn how to play Sudoku.- Volunteer for American/Philippine Red Cross or UNHCR.
Quit smoking.
Kitten recommends:
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince
- Trina Paulus' Hope for the Flowers
- Paulo Coehlo's Eleven Minutes
- Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
- Neil Gaiman's American Gods
- Anne Rice's Beauty's Release
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- Douglas F. Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
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