So, I finally got a new LJ name, which I'd been intending to do for perhaps a year or more. Gotmilkbl is a v. old screen name of mine, dating back four years or so and, more importantly, before I found out I was lactose intolerant. I've been living in irony all this time! So add vox_dei to all your friends lists. The pretension shall never cease!

My contribution.

(See: http://www.livejournal.com/users/disc_sophist/209474.html)

Quixotically yours,
Beth

I just picked up my phone to a guy named Scott looking for an Elizabeth. This makes perfect sense because I am an Elizabeth. Nevertheless, I am not the Elizabeth that he was looking for. No, in fact, he said to me, "is this extension xX456?*" And I replied, "No, this is extension xX452." A perfectly cromulent mistake. But xX456 just happened to be my extension from last year.

Cue Twilight Zone theme

Morpheus


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"My talent consists in being capable of being puzzled when the puzzlement has glided off your mind. I am able to hold the puzzlement when it has slipped through your hands (and you therefore think you are clear). The art of the philosopher is not to be cheated of his puzzlement before it is really cleared up."

~Wittgenstein

What's left ofvocable was doing her Chinese homework on my computer this afternoon, and I thought I should share this translated story of hers with you all.

Not to be Literate

(1) There is a mountain where a tiger
is about to injure people and about to injure domestic animals.
(2) A hunter plans to catch the tiger.
(3) He goes to set a trap to wait for it.
(4) He makes a big written character to write on the top of a wall, which says:
(5) “Below there is a tiger trap. On (this) road, people, your pace (must) halt!”
(6) The big written character is almost done being composed.
(7) The Village People, who are not literate, pass over that which is below the written character on the wall.
(8) They sing while they walk.
(9) It is a mistake to walk on a tiger trap and moreover to fall into the middle of it.
(10) They make a great shout to ask for help.
(11) When he comes out, a person explains for them that the wall’s top is where the fair writing is.
(12) The Village People sigh and say:
(13) “We resemble the literati.
How can it be that we have reached such perfection?”

Article about Sarah Lawrence in the NY Times with an interview with moneypenny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/edlife/09GROSS.html

Check it out!

Just saw the last Matrix movie.......why did they have to take it there??!?!?!

Imminent death. So little sleep. So much Wittgenstein.