something about this just makes me feel old.



i've been a gloomy petrarch, uh-oh-oh


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"they took all the faeries away! stupid isaac newton!"

-- guy in my medieval history class during a discussion about how everyone once believed in magic
so at least a portion of my life continues along happily as the slow march towards spring always should. i found the dynamic jacket technology for this moment, wearing my black zip-up sweatshirt under the brown coat to deal with both the warm and cold parts of the day, all so perfect for snowmelt-warm late february. the best parts are probably the afternoon medieval history classes; they always start slightly late and seem to end far too soon. i'm pretty much exactly where i need to be in a lot of ways listening to a lecture on the lay investiture controversy-- the semester of medievalism has its intended calming effect, my head full of aristotle and aquinas; feudalism, the spring flowers of chivalry, and dante.

in medieval philosophy today, someone asked very anxiously, as if he really, really needed to know, if angels could copulate with humans. absurd enough to be medieval christian theology.

not that life has lacked absurdity lately.


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