I'm dangerous when I meme
Oct. 28th, 2004 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lareinenoire1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
5. ...along with these instructions.
Well...you see, I'm a literature major. This is evidenced in the fact that I have a pile of seventeen books sitting about three inches away from my hands. And I've done enough actual work for today, so I hereby present them all.
1. "Gothic works and their disturbing ambivalence can thus be seen as effects of fear and anxiety, as attempts to account for or deal with the uncertainty of these shifts." (Gothic by Fred Botting)
2. "So much for the charge that Hitchcock is merely a formalist filmmaker, preoccupied solely with technique and trickery." (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock by Slavoj Zizek)
3. "Until the late seventeenth century literary evocations of landscape remained, with few exceptions, descriptive lists with little evocative power, individuality or observation." (Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines)
4. "Presumably either Adam and Eve would have lived for ever and so experienced no need for descendants, or the earth would have been further populated without the necessity for the sordid groping with which the Church Fathers equated the sexual act." (The Mistress: Histories, Myths and Interpretations of the 'Other Woman' by Victoria Griffin)
5. "The profanation of the sacred and the degeneration of the human into the bestial, which also appears in much subsequent Gothic fiction, evokes the medieval carnivalesque degradation described by Bakhtin, which in his view served to stimulate feeling and awareness and to vitalize the social world." (The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien by Valdine Clemens)
6. "Thus, Mears's programme offers to deliver the happiness promised by Sarah Pennington, for example, in maternal advice to her daughters, to women of 'docile tempers'." (Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality edited by Avril Horner and Angela Keane)
7. "Displaying both Whitmanesque homosocial 'adhesiveness' and his equally important heterosexual 'amativeness', the blood-letting protagonists turn Dracula's attack into a fertility rite through their mingling with Lucy Westenra's blood." (Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis, and the Gothic ny William Hughes and Andrew Smith)
8. "The suitors' nobility of heart is usually discovered to be matched by nobility of pedigree, and the happy couple are fondly clasped to the now-approving paternal bosom." (In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic by Michelle A. Massé)
9. "A single catharsis: the rhetoric of the pure signifier, of music in letters---Finnegans Wake." (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva)
10. "This is the basic lesson drawn by Lacan from Antigone and Hamlet." (Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek)
11. "In his attribution of the discovery of symptom to Marx, Lacan is, however, more distinct: he locates this discovery in the way Marx conceived the passage from feudalism to capitalism: 'One has to look for the origins of the notion of symptom not in Hippocrates but in Marx, in the connection he was first to establish between capitalism and what?--the good old times, what we call the feudal times'." (The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek)
12. "Here we again encounter the objet petit a: when we are faced with two series of behaviour which cannot be distinguished by any clearly positive symbolic feature, yet the difference between the two is the unmistakable difference between true upper-classness and its clumsy imitation, that unfathomable X, the je ne sais quoi which accounts for this gap - in short, the object which makes the difference where one cannot estabish any positive difference - this is precisely the object petit a as the unfathomable object-cause of desire." (The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek)
13. "A few weeks later, he was found dead in his New York atelier, in a pool of blood, with his wrists cut." (The Zizek Reader edited by Elizabeth Wright)
14. There is no fifth sentence on page 23, as it is a title page.
15. "Then there are three or four months spent in feeding the baby." (A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf)
16. "But cynicism is very apt to consider "commodity" as the one thing needful." (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos)
17. "Consequently, are not post-Communist outbursts of new-Nazi violence also a negative proof of the presence of these emancipatory chances, a symptomatic outburst of rage displaying an awareness of missed opportunities" (Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek)
And that, as they say, is the lot. At least of that pile. The other one was a bit further away and only had three books anyway. And, strangely enough, I found Lacan's view on the undead in one of those books, thanks to this meme. Thank you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yrmencyn. You just made my life quite a bit easier.
So...I suppose I actually have work to do. Curses! Foiled again!
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
5. ...along with these instructions.
Well...you see, I'm a literature major. This is evidenced in the fact that I have a pile of seventeen books sitting about three inches away from my hands. And I've done enough actual work for today, so I hereby present them all.
1. "Gothic works and their disturbing ambivalence can thus be seen as effects of fear and anxiety, as attempts to account for or deal with the uncertainty of these shifts." (Gothic by Fred Botting)
2. "So much for the charge that Hitchcock is merely a formalist filmmaker, preoccupied solely with technique and trickery." (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock by Slavoj Zizek)
3. "Until the late seventeenth century literary evocations of landscape remained, with few exceptions, descriptive lists with little evocative power, individuality or observation." (Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines)
4. "Presumably either Adam and Eve would have lived for ever and so experienced no need for descendants, or the earth would have been further populated without the necessity for the sordid groping with which the Church Fathers equated the sexual act." (The Mistress: Histories, Myths and Interpretations of the 'Other Woman' by Victoria Griffin)
5. "The profanation of the sacred and the degeneration of the human into the bestial, which also appears in much subsequent Gothic fiction, evokes the medieval carnivalesque degradation described by Bakhtin, which in his view served to stimulate feeling and awareness and to vitalize the social world." (The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien by Valdine Clemens)
6. "Thus, Mears's programme offers to deliver the happiness promised by Sarah Pennington, for example, in maternal advice to her daughters, to women of 'docile tempers'." (Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality edited by Avril Horner and Angela Keane)
7. "Displaying both Whitmanesque homosocial 'adhesiveness' and his equally important heterosexual 'amativeness', the blood-letting protagonists turn Dracula's attack into a fertility rite through their mingling with Lucy Westenra's blood." (Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis, and the Gothic ny William Hughes and Andrew Smith)
8. "The suitors' nobility of heart is usually discovered to be matched by nobility of pedigree, and the happy couple are fondly clasped to the now-approving paternal bosom." (In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic by Michelle A. Massé)
9. "A single catharsis: the rhetoric of the pure signifier, of music in letters---Finnegans Wake." (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva)
10. "This is the basic lesson drawn by Lacan from Antigone and Hamlet." (Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek)
11. "In his attribution of the discovery of symptom to Marx, Lacan is, however, more distinct: he locates this discovery in the way Marx conceived the passage from feudalism to capitalism: 'One has to look for the origins of the notion of symptom not in Hippocrates but in Marx, in the connection he was first to establish between capitalism and what?--the good old times, what we call the feudal times'." (The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek)
12. "Here we again encounter the objet petit a: when we are faced with two series of behaviour which cannot be distinguished by any clearly positive symbolic feature, yet the difference between the two is the unmistakable difference between true upper-classness and its clumsy imitation, that unfathomable X, the je ne sais quoi which accounts for this gap - in short, the object which makes the difference where one cannot estabish any positive difference - this is precisely the object petit a as the unfathomable object-cause of desire." (The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek)
13. "A few weeks later, he was found dead in his New York atelier, in a pool of blood, with his wrists cut." (The Zizek Reader edited by Elizabeth Wright)
14. There is no fifth sentence on page 23, as it is a title page.
15. "Then there are three or four months spent in feeding the baby." (A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf)
16. "But cynicism is very apt to consider "commodity" as the one thing needful." (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos)
17. "Consequently, are not post-Communist outbursts of new-Nazi violence also a negative proof of the presence of these emancipatory chances, a symptomatic outburst of rage displaying an awareness of missed opportunities" (Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek)
And that, as they say, is the lot. At least of that pile. The other one was a bit further away and only had three books anyway. And, strangely enough, I found Lacan's view on the undead in one of those books, thanks to this meme. Thank you,
yrmencyn. You just made my life quite a bit easier.So...I suppose I actually have work to do. Curses! Foiled again!
