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Tue 15 Oct 2019 09:16:01 AM EDT
Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty.
High of sixty-three and mostly sunny today.
Work:
- Email AppFolio and Entrata about demo for Megan
Done.
- Launchers for leasing desktops
Done.
- Conky for leasing desktops
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Heard crickets.
Saw a hawk, a little yellow butterfly, and a little orange butterfly.
Home:
- Buy Untitled Goose Game
Done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html
> Perhaps Professor Bloom’s most influential work was one that discussed literary influence itself. The book, “The Anxiety of Influence,” published in 1973 and eventually in some 45 languages, borrows from Freudian theory in envisioning literary creation as an epochal, and Oedipal, struggle in which the young artist rebels against preceding traditions, seeking that burst of originality that distinguishes greatness.
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> Professor Bloom argued that a poem was both a response to another poem and a defense against it. Poetry, he wrote, was a dark battleground where poets deliberately “misread” those who came before them and repress their debt to them.
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> This was a view that ran counter to the New Criticism, the dominant literary theory in midcentury America that put aside matters like historical context and author’s intentions and rather saw literature as a series of texts to be closely analyzed, their meaning to be found in language and structure.
Watched a few episodes of Speechless.
Kind of funny, for a network sitcom.
Played some Untitled Goose Game.
Watched an hour of the Democratic debate.
Best run of the debates so far, but still twice as many candidates on the stage as there should be.
Are some of these candidates new — WTF?
Warren did better than in previous debates, helped by the slightly longer times.
Klobuchar rubs me the wrong way.
Biden seems more doddering than usual.
Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: tomato, carrots, egg, banana
Brunch: orange, coffee
Lunch: yogurt, celery, apple
Afternoon snack: green tea
Dinner: fries, chicken wrap
135/77
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