Posted 10 months ago
More ways with which grad school is eating my brain/life
My translation work is taking up so much of my brainpower that my mind can’t handle listening to more than one song multiple times in a row.
Which means I’ve been listening to Better than Heaven for about two hours straight now, while reading Lucian’s essay about how he chose the path of Education and Culture over Sculpture and Industry. In a dream, Sculpture (represented as a manly, dusty, calloused woman) tells Lucian ‘you can make money if you come with me, and you’ll be famous not only for mere words but for your magnificent work.’
Meanwhile I’m sitting here in the library reading Greek from the Second Sophistic period, surrounded by the by-products of Culture/Education, and thinking, ‘shit, I should have gone with Sculpture.’
(Also particularly apt, Better than Heaven’s chorus goes You get sadder/the smarter you get/and it’s a bore.)
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