HOLD ON TIGHT

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot Saturday, November 15, 2008 break my hea-a-a-a-a-ar-t, break my heart i have been spending the past few days in the library basement2, reading dusty manuscripts and studying production histories, learning about reformation typology and printing presses during the renaissance. it's almost become a kind of psychosis, my constant return to kroch library. i did feel at one point today, breathing in dalton's comus, 1738, like dying, when the dust got into my throat, like crap. i learnt two cool things today (for those already in the know, please be generous with me about dates, etc, cos i am typing these things at the top of my head) 1) drury lane and covent garden were the only licensed playhouses during the post-reformation under a 1730s law, aiming to prevent subversive theater. in the 1760s, licenses were given out to provincial playhouses, this caused a sudden interest amongst sailors, carpenters, farmers in theater, and royalty flocked over to the provincial playhouses. to prevent losing profits, drury lane and covent garden started expanding their audience to the vulgario. the provincial playhouses were only licensed to do burlesque, music, etc. yet the circumvented this law by creating an entire visual language to stage plays like hamlet, and turned the verses into "music" by forcing musical accompaniment. the rise of visuality in theater was linked to the increasing vulgarisation of theater 2) "In 1774, the House of Lords came together to hear arguments in the landmark case of Donaldson v. Becket. Donaldson maintained that once the twenty-eight year maximum term of copyright under the statute had expired a work was freely available. The works of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton ….all the perennials of the book trade that the booksellers had been accustomed to treat as it they were private landed estates were suddenly declared open commons." mark rose, on copyrights, and a foucaultian analysis of what constitutes authorship. -- last night i was on the phone with my parents. they're really excited about me and justin coming home. "what do you wanna do when you come home, you have to let us know what you want to eat! we're counting down the days!" i was really sad when i heard that. i sent an email, saying, "all i want is for us to be normal, because if i feel like a tourist in my own house, having unnecessarily large, special meals cooked for me, that will break my heart." --- watched the wizard of oz in the gym, i love it. so old school, so excellent. also cooking with fernando tomorrow a sunday brunch. i called him, delirious from librarying, at 9pm. "have you had dinner? if you have, you are useless to me," i say. posted by dawn # 9:10 PM Comments: Post a Comment << Home		[publishing] Publishers Weekly . Dystel & Goderich . New York Center for Independent Publishing . Association of American University Presses . Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators [people] clarisse . nurul . aunty zarina (ummi's bakery) . jeremy . pak . cyril . softblow . karen & kenny (booksactually) . eric . joel . [other loves] digitaljournalist . ballet dictionary . poetshouse . urbanwordnyc [me] dawn, singapore, new york city, ithaca. [yesterday] Comus, 1787 on the verge of a trembling walking with grace little moment fannie and freddie ithaca consumed by the details of my life now. it mostly ... i have been stressed out. only just secured my sch... fireworks ithaca is gorges [archives] January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot

Saturday, November 15, 2008

break my hea-a-a-a-a-ar-t, break my heart

i have been spending the past few days in the library basement2, reading dusty manuscripts and studying production histories, learning about reformation typology and printing presses during the renaissance. it's almost become a kind of psychosis, my constant return to kroch library. i did feel at one point today, breathing in dalton's comus, 1738, like dying, when the dust got into my throat, like crap. i learnt two cool things today (for those already in the know, please be generous with me about dates, etc, cos i am typing these things at the top of my head)
1) drury lane and covent garden were the only licensed playhouses during the post-reformation under a 1730s law, aiming to prevent subversive theater. in the 1760s, licenses were given out to provincial playhouses, this caused a sudden interest amongst sailors, carpenters, farmers in theater, and royalty flocked over to the provincial playhouses. to prevent losing profits, drury lane and covent garden started expanding their audience to the vulgario. the provincial playhouses were only licensed to do burlesque, music, etc. yet the circumvented this law by creating an entire visual language to stage plays like hamlet, and turned the verses into "music" by forcing musical accompaniment. the rise of visuality in theater was linked to the increasing vulgarisation of theater
2) "In 1774, the House of Lords came together to hear arguments in the landmark case of Donaldson v. Becket. Donaldson maintained that once the twenty-eight year maximum term of copyright under the statute had expired a work was freely available. The works of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton ….all the perennials of the book trade that the booksellers had been accustomed to treat as it they were private landed estates were suddenly declared open commons." mark rose, on copyrights, and a foucaultian analysis of what constitutes authorship.
--
last night i was on the phone with my parents. they're really excited about me and justin coming home. "what do you wanna do when you come home, you have to let us know what you want to eat! we're counting down the days!" i was really sad when i heard that. i sent an email, saying, "all i want is for us to be normal, because if i feel like a tourist in my own house, having unnecessarily large, special meals cooked for me, that will break my heart."
---
watched the wizard of oz in the gym, i love it. so old school, so excellent. also cooking with fernando tomorrow a sunday brunch. i called him, delirious from librarying, at 9pm. "have you had dinner? if you have, you are useless to me," i say.

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