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a Wandering Jew
with attitude
Created on 2003-07-27 22:27:45 (#1212920), last updated 2007-09-25
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Basic Info| Name: | Rachel |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 03-03 |
| Location: | Danville, Kentucky, United States |
| Website: | My Flickr photostream |
Bioalso i like france. and words. college is a good place to like those things, because in the real world nobody cares.
journal title is a line from a john ashbery poem called "humble pie." ashbery was referring to the biblical legend, but being largely ignorant of the new testament, i didn't get that part. so, though i took the line out of context, you might as well read the poem because john ashbery is cool (and barely decipherable). it goes:
Various flavors recite us.
Meanwhile the inevitable Casper David Friedrich painting
of a ship pointing somehow upward has slipped in like a fog,
surrounding us with vowels of regret
for the things we did not do
rising like a great shout above the barrel.
I was going to say I kissed you once
when you were asleep, and that you took no notice.
Since that day I have been as a traveler
who scurries to and fro among nettles, never sure
of where he wants to end up, a Wandering Jew
with attitude.
All this time the sun had its eye on us
as it was going down. Finally, when it hit the horizon,
it had something to say. Something like pick up your two weeks' salary
on your way out
and don't ever let me catch you on this planet again.
Fine, but on what token shore
are we to be misted? We all have to end up somewhere together.
Might as well be in last week's parish newsletter
or in the elbows of a nubian concubine.
I mean, we are right, somehow right, which is the same
thing only more so. Sticks and tokens
are my hymn to the sun that has gone,
never to return, it seems,
though.
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anthropologie, arabic, avocado, being kinda sorta jewish, biblical hebrew, charles wright, cézanne, español, etymology, feminism, france, français, french, hindi, hrithik roshan, india, indo-aryan languages, indo-european languages, jewelry, john ashbery, kajol, kashmir, kerala, la dordogne, language acquisition, languages, latin, linguistics, manet, mango, proto-indo-european, qohelet, rajasthan, raspberries, romance languages, semantics, shahrukh khan, simultaneous interpretation, spanish, stephen colbert, strasbourg, translation, van huysum, vegetarianism, vermeer, vermeil, yiddish, עיברית, देवनागरी
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Schools:
Centre College - Danville, KY (2003 - present)
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