he must have been a LIBRA

[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.

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.

[waves-in-space.livejournal.com]

i also added you, i hope thats all right.

[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?