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Aug. 20th, 2004 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickGot my summer issue of The Key Reporter today. In it, there's an article about irony, pages 5 and 8. I read the article while I was driving to work, going sixty miles an hour with the AC on full blast (it was hot out) and the window down (I like the wind). For those of you who do not get this periodical, the article can be read here: http://www.pbk.org/pubs/Keyreporter/Summer2004/Summer%20Issue.pdf
Anyway. I got a couple of things out of this article, things which are probably not the things that were PUT IN the article, but still I'm finding them there and I'm going to talk about them. I'm not English-major enough anymore to worry overly about authorial intent.
"She couldn't possibly mean this seriously. I mean, unless she's June Cleaver or something." Arrogant whelp. I am glad I don't need your validation on the dignity and satisfaction that can be found in everyday activities. I do think, though, that you'll be happier if you get over the view that the finding of such things in everyday life automatically makes someone hokey, uncool, and stupid. Your youth is showing, or my age is. Funny thing is, I remember being you.
"Making jam," he theorized, "isn't simple at all!" This is the voice of someone who's never made jam. I made absolutely top-notch jam from peaches the other week, so I'm allowed to hold forth on this topic. The making of jam is not so technical that it's beyond the reach of a liberal arts graduate student and I'll be so bold as to say that I expect a lot of them could benefit from the experience. There's something very grounding about a bushel of peaches.
"Anyone subscribing to the Times would have to be more sophisticated than the letter lets on..." Again with the arrogant whelp-i-tude. This gets to go to graduate school? I can't believe that nobody argued how it might be a very cool sort of sophistication to enjoy and appreciate the simple and repetitive tasks of daily living, every now and Zen. Nobody brought up the bit about examined lives being worth living?
*sigh* I'm running the air conditioner and driving around with the windows rolled down on this one. I should feel a lot more guilty about it than I actually do.
Anyway. I got a couple of things out of this article, things which are probably not the things that were PUT IN the article, but still I'm finding them there and I'm going to talk about them. I'm not English-major enough anymore to worry overly about authorial intent.
"She couldn't possibly mean this seriously. I mean, unless she's June Cleaver or something." Arrogant whelp. I am glad I don't need your validation on the dignity and satisfaction that can be found in everyday activities. I do think, though, that you'll be happier if you get over the view that the finding of such things in everyday life automatically makes someone hokey, uncool, and stupid. Your youth is showing, or my age is. Funny thing is, I remember being you.
"Making jam," he theorized, "isn't simple at all!" This is the voice of someone who's never made jam. I made absolutely top-notch jam from peaches the other week, so I'm allowed to hold forth on this topic. The making of jam is not so technical that it's beyond the reach of a liberal arts graduate student and I'll be so bold as to say that I expect a lot of them could benefit from the experience. There's something very grounding about a bushel of peaches.
"Anyone subscribing to the Times would have to be more sophisticated than the letter lets on..." Again with the arrogant whelp-i-tude. This gets to go to graduate school? I can't believe that nobody argued how it might be a very cool sort of sophistication to enjoy and appreciate the simple and repetitive tasks of daily living, every now and Zen. Nobody brought up the bit about examined lives being worth living?
*sigh* I'm running the air conditioner and driving around with the windows rolled down on this one. I should feel a lot more guilty about it than I actually do.
