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[dotinthesky]

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.


- Flaubert

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[tikarass.livejournal.com]

ha! that's how i work: boring in life, radical in theory.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

i know you will lead, one day, a country into freedom.

:)

may I add you?

[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

There is something appealing about that statement. I used to be a ballet dancer and I was of the belief that only through intense discipline and perfect technique would you really have the tools to be free/creative/able to abandon your ties to form.
But Flaubert has always concerned me a little bit too. I read Madame Bovary at a time when I was suffocating in small town high school life and I had every sympathy for Madame's restless longing for romance and liberty. So it was extra sad to see her life fall apart - even if she was a shallow bitch. It's like when I fall in love with Scarlett O'Hara's green and white dress at the party before the war (her eyelashes were amazing) and I find myself identifying with the little minx, only to have Rhett leave me too and not just her in the very end. When author's write stories like that, it feels like, "See what happens if you do what you want? You will suffer you bad little girl!"
Right, well, anyway, my name is Sarah and I found your journal through pantomimewhore and I'm trying to decide if I want to take out extra student loans to go to Brazil in August for a conference. Thanks for the tempting pictures.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

he! you should definetly head south... brazil is one of the last undiscovered treasuries of humanity. I will add you right now.

:)

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[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

thank you, I'll add you too.

This year we had a visiting professor from Brazil. If her country is anything like her, indeed it is a rare and beautiful place.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

really? what did she teach you? what was she like?

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[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

What did she teach me? Well, in class or out? She helped teach a course called theoretical foundations - it was a course in which we read Skinner. Lots of Skinner.

Our of class, she and I went dancing on Monday nights and I learned to lightened up and enjoy being beautiful and female. I learned that sexy women are sexy at any age, and that experience is very very valuable.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

i arrived in England today and im already missing brazil and all its people.

:o/


are you still in touch with her?

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[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

yes, more or less.
not the same as when she was here, but she keeps us updated.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

that's great. Do you think you'll ever visit Brazil? if yes, where?

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[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

maybe this august for the conference. It is in Campinas. She lives in Sao Paolo so I'd probably go there for a couple of days before flying home.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Campinas is a nice city. You should have fun. If you can, ask her to take you to the club, in Sao Paulo, called D-Edge.

;)

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[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip!
IF I am lucky enough to go, I'm sure I'll be bothering you more for info.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

ask away... i know tons of good places to go inSao Paulo.

[waves-in-space.livejournal.com]

i also added you, i hope thats all right.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

very alright! anyone who loves morrissey should hold on to my body and not let go.

[retellit.livejournal.com]

bourgeois, by the way, is my most favorite word on the planet. and for some reason it's appeared everywhere today. in a short story in Fiction class, a criticism of e.e. cummings' work in English class, and a report on communism in the 1920s in AP American History, and now you...

is this a sign?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

yes it is... but a sign of what? i dont know. just dont marry any doctors and begin any affairs...

[retellit.livejournal.com]

too late