Comments on: Hide and Seek http://www.oleoptene.com/2009/02/12/hide-and-seek/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: unreliable narrator http://www.oleoptene.com/2009/02/12/hide-and-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-5289 unreliable narrator Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:55:20 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=290#comment-5289 PS if Wadpress will LET me: http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/02/women-cant-say-no-and-or-how-confident.html PS if Wadpress will LET me:

http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/02/women-cant-say-no-and-or-how-confident.html

]]> By: unreliable narrator http://www.oleoptene.com/2009/02/12/hide-and-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-5285 unreliable narrator Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:08:52 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=290#comment-5285 But what about the shooting pain in the region of my left kidney/ovary? I mean, that could *totally* be a tumor, right? I'm just going to stop myself immediately and post music and poems, because I am apparently so wordless that all I have in the face of February is clumsy unfunny clowning. So, here, the song which your post title has implanted in my brain, even though it is admittedly DEE-pressing: http://theunreliablenarrator.net/music/march/hide-and-seek.mp3 And please forgive me Martha Nell Smith for hotlinking, especially because I have the worst academic crush on you EVER, since I wrote my Dickinson dissertation in 1997, but you'll forgive me I know, because my friend NEEDS THIS POEM and women share things. http://www.mith2.umd.edu/courses/engl250/archives/etude.pdf But what about the shooting pain in the region of my left kidney/ovary? I mean, that could *totally* be a tumor, right?

I’m just going to stop myself immediately and post music and poems, because I am apparently so wordless that all I have in the face of February is clumsy unfunny clowning. So, here, the song which your post title has implanted in my brain, even though it is admittedly DEE-pressing:

http://theunreliablenarrator.net/music/march/hide-and-seek.mp3

And please forgive me Martha Nell Smith for hotlinking, especially because I have the worst academic crush on you EVER, since I wrote my Dickinson dissertation in 1997, but you’ll forgive me I know, because my friend NEEDS THIS POEM and women share things.

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/courses/engl250/archives/etude.pdf

]]> By: repat blues http://www.oleoptene.com/2009/02/12/hide-and-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-5283 repat blues Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:47 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=290#comment-5283 I clearly need to reread Of Woman Born. There's this Gertrude Stein line: "I write for myself and strangers." I think this works w/r/t blogging. There is that level on which it is satisfying to write it--and then yes you let it go, and it becomes something else for someone else. February IS the cruelest month, isn't it? But it's short. I also appreciate the note that it is easier to post struggles than triumphs--it is always that way for me. (And I prefer to read about struggles over triumphs much to the annoyance of my students: "These books are so DEE-pressing!") Ah, well. Finally, I am SO with you on the need for someone to remind me that that bump is a rib ;) and that I might live past 40. I clearly need to reread Of Woman Born.

There’s this Gertrude Stein line: “I write for myself and strangers.” I think this works w/r/t blogging. There is that level on which it is satisfying to write it–and then yes you let it go, and it becomes something else for someone else.

February IS the cruelest month, isn’t it? But it’s short.

I also appreciate the note that it is easier to post struggles than triumphs–it is always that way for me. (And I prefer to read about struggles over triumphs much to the annoyance of my students: “These books are so DEE-pressing!”) Ah, well.

Finally, I am SO with you on the need for someone to remind me that that bump is a rib ;) and that I might live past 40.

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