Sunday, April 10, 2005

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm......

hKetG says: so today i was thinking
hKetG says: that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to move back to crown heights...
BPS says: where, what, when, how?
BPS says: oh, and WHY?
BPS says: or do you just mean, like, in theory..

I’m going to try using this logic the next time my labmates threaten to auction off my labspace:
''I need an office so I can have a place where I don't write''
-Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer after revealing to the New York Times that he didn't compose his new novel in his office but did his writing all over town.

I was going through some old papers and found a Time magazine clipping of a review of What Should I do with My Life by Po Bronson entitled “Hint: It’s not Plastics.” (Ironically, plastics is sort of what I’m doing...) A quote from the book:
Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Last week's news: Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life Into American Novel, Dies at 89

3 Comments:

Blogger Miriam said...

noooo! plastics are the future!

I loved The Graduate...and scarily, I relate to it even more, now, that whole scene with the floating in the pool aimlessly.

17/4/05 07:14  
Blogger Mariposa said...

A penny for your fortune: You'll be a pschychologist one day. *_-

20/4/05 21:36  
Blogger Goldie said...

Funny that you say that - I've 4 of Freud's books plus the DSM IV out from the library...But unlikely that I'll become a pschychologist. Too much writing and BS in that profession. For now I'll continue to float aimlessly and try to get a master's from MIT on the side.

21/4/05 15:37  

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