We're going underground...

[readingredhead]

If my Representing London walking journal (also known as my mock-mock-Georgic, written entirely in heroic couplets) could contain all of the things that I have discovered while getting pleasantly lost on Wikipedia and related sites, it would have to include:

--Norse mythology, particularly the "World Serpent"
--popular art created in response to the London Underground map
--discussion of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book Good Omens
--discussion of Neil Gaiman's book Neverwhere
--G. K. Chesterton
--the ouroborous
--Mornington Crescent
--Circle Line parties
--chocolate-covered almonds from Trader Joe's (I'm eating one right now!)
--the dangers of copyright infringement

And that's before I throw in the French theorists who are actually relevant to what I'm writing about! (Note to self: Try understanding French critical theory next time I have been drinking. Perhaps it will make more sense.)

In the meantime, I still don't have 1000 words done out of the 2000 words that I need, AND I HAVE SPENT ALL DAY ON THIS, with only slight diversions for shopping for (and consuming) foodstuffs, and watching the newest episode of Bones. And writing about this project self-reflexively on this journal.

I just need to get this done now.

ETA: Jormungandr (aforementioned World-Serpent) has been footnoted! Gaiman and Pratchett to follow. :)

Comments

[hodgetopodge.livejournal.com]

Are the French theorists literature, philosophy, both, or neither? There are those among us who suspect they say nothing, and I assume at least some of us are alcoholics and not intellectual slouches, since at least one in every academic circle is an alcoholic. As my philosophy professor's Facebook page says: "Yes, I drink." But then he would have gone for that continental stuff. Haven't they instilled a dislike for the continent in you yet? My Joyce professor told me last week about his suspicions that few in the English department do English these days, to say nothing of the comparative literature department. Of course, he's nearly as senile as I am.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I have not read enough of the French theorists to know what they are yet (and I do not expect that the French theorists have, either). As for disliking the continent, my professor's exact words introducing these writers to the class were, "They are, as I am sure you have noticed, French" -- with a beautiful British disdain. (In point of fact he is originally from New Zealand, which is possibly why he is allowed to give any credit to the French without immediately bursting into flames, but he has spent most of his adult life in the UK.)

[hodgetopodge.livejournal.com]

I find this to be something of a relief. Thank you.