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daryl

daryl has written 821 posts for a modest odyssey

the tyrant sea

the sea

queen

Brand new year, again.

Some quick updates for a new year. School’s starting next week. I’m attempting to do Asian International Cinema, some Renaissance literature, science fiction, and a multimedia subject. I do have a back-up plan in case I don’t get any one of those, and that’s a post-structuralist psychoanalysis subject. I have been working on a few [...]

X’mas.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

from the basement

Boredom

Yesterday, I finished up a few assorted tasks. Then I watched a few things I was supposed to watch. With all that done, it suddenly hit me. It’s a feeling I haven’t known for a while. Boredom. I still have chores (packing my music library, for instance). I still have things I need to do [...]

German Literature Month: Impressions of Klausen

Last week, I wrote impressions of a book I’d recently read for an event organised by other bloggers. I published it on my other blog, but here it is reproduced for the people who only visit this site. No, it’s not a sterling piece of criticism; more of a casual impressions piece, really. Hope you [...]

December.

My word, it’ll be December in a couple of days. End of the year and all that, onwards to Armageddon. This year, I’m interested in trying to put a number of things into motion so that I can get 2012 on the right track even before it starts. At the risk of sounding like gullible [...]

I know, I know.

My last post was almost two months ago. My fault entirely. What happened? Well, the semester was busy doing its thing, but I can now honestly declare it over. I also had to take care of some personal issues, and fight off a couple of bouts of illness. I’ve been writing and feeling not very [...]