The Plays the Thing |
The only logical corollary to being in a play is believing one can write one. So I'm taking a stab at it. It has a revolutionary tenor, focusing primarily on the Potentate "Close Reading," an evil Mon...
Posted by Marc on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:37:00 PST |
I Fire Blanks, or Epically Retardeder |
So some time ago, I began to write an epic poem. However, the growth of one year's time, more than any other factor, has persuaded me to start from scratch. The major changes I've made have been to br...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST |
When I write prose, you can call me Frank |
I am in the incipient stages of questioning the legitimacy of my actions as well as the source of my motivations. Sure, one could say that a person, simply by virtue of being human, is instinctively, ...
Posted by Marc on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:29:00 PST |
On Tantalus |
A good Berkeley chum of mine, and a fellow English major, once called Dante's La Vita Nuova a "medieval MySpace page." Without having read it myself, I'll just scratch my chin and use it as motivation...
Posted by Marc on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:48:00 PST |
The article that introduces Hope is longer than you think |
A king, whose nobles faithlessly obey
And disregard his magnanimity,
Is soon deposed in great calamity:
Thus makes Dependence terrestrial stay.
When one of Hope bereft is led astray,
By means explicit...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:48:00 PST |
Musings which, since my sanity is in doubt, ought not to be taken seriously |
I have very little ambition. Capitalism repulses me and yet I'm an Economics Major. I can't stand the vast majority of individuals in my Econ classes for a certain rapacious quality they all seem to e...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:12:00 PST |
There's Something in My Soul O'er Which My Melancholy Sits on Brood |
Some more poetry. Make of it what you will. Comments are always nice.O Language fill'd with furtive base deceit,When words, alter'd by two, their poles exchange,Or "not," when added, positive unseats,...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST |
In Praise of Hedonism |
Since Man is God's most sophisticated creation, and since hedonism is the doctrine by which He most generally lives, and since this way of life has propagated the greatest of human institutions, innov...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:52:00 PST |
Endeavors of Extraordinary Profundity and Importance |
I really should be working on my Economics problem set due in approximately 15 hours, but I feel the need to first "publish" another crappy poem. This one is of the Elizabethan variety, and probably w...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:54:00 PST |
Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment |
Yeah, I know. It's not Christmas yet. So what extraordinary circumstance leads me to blog today? Why, simply my humble return to the writing of verse. Last night I was stricken by the Muse, or somethi...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:28:00 PST |
