My love,
Maybe when all this white noise is done and gone,
Maybe then we’ll be together.
The new normal, and then maybe after all this love and romance;
The last of the romantics.
My love, you take my heart and I swear that I will have you in my dreams tonite.
I love how romantic your poetry sounds.
If only you could just send one to me.
I love your music.
I love the way you lie asleep at night in your underwear.
I love the way every fact is relevant to your topic.
I love your conclusions and your reviews; also known as your thoughts on your favorite books.
I love how you read the newspaper in your underwear at nights where you cannot sleep.
To you I’d surrender.
I.
Happy New Year my love.
Happy birthday.
Nothing has changed since.
Because you do not believe in cliches.
I like how you write.
How your words are so beautiful and intrinsically laced with poison as you kiss me.
I love your voice,
And I’m jealous of your cigarettes….
How they touch that part of your soft, silky smooth lips.
And I love how you look at me.
I feel your eyes rove over my skin as you overwhelmingly say the things you do.
I’d love it if you’d just whisper into my ear, “I love you.”
And if you kiss me once and kiss me twice and kiss me once again,
I promise I will be yours always.
Dark Avenues – Ivan Bunin
“Dark Avenues” puts the reader through experiences which can be studied with the phenomenological approach. We look at Ivan Bunin’s stories which are a replica of most experiences in the natural world. In other words, it also lends itself to naturalism in such ways that the decline of love seems only more or so present for phenomenologists to guess. Phenomenology is the study of how people infer about why things are the way they are, meanwhile naturalism is the metaphysical aspect of reality instead of a depiction of a fairytale.
Wolves – Ivan Bunin
Although Ivan Bunin’s stories may lend its selves to phenomenology and or naturalism, Wolves instantly lends itself to psychoanalysis because the woman we can infer was not so reckless because she had a passion for the horses or she might have probably suffered from the death drive because she got in front of the horses and could have been mauled or attacked either way which led me to a personal issue in the character about fear whether the story represented her overcoming the fear of wolves or if she just had a death drive which are both rhetorical issues.
The Raven – Ivan Bunin
The Raven is very psychoanalytical because the woman is young and by far, we can ask ourselves does the father have a fetish for young women and about why the young woman is not interested in the son. I think she is prey for the father who looks like a raven because of the clasp at the end of the story which may have represented the raven\\\’s claws which may have actually been a symbolic figure of ownership upon the young woman.
The Silence of The Girls – Pat Barker
“The Silence of The Girls” would piss off any feminist critic of today probably because of the situation that Briseis is in where she has to please her man with a child which is sort of medieval because an heir has to be brought to the throne and she gets rejected because of her young age knowing that she is too young to bear a child.
Eva Luna – Isabel Allede
The novel basically lends itself to Marxism within Eva and Rolf’s stories in the novel. I also think that Rolf can be used for an example of psychoanalysis for his traumatic past. It reminds me of the Grimm fairytale Cinderella although they cut off her toes and heel and probably Beauty and The Beast as another Grimm fairytale more or less. I would prefer to refer Eva Luna to propose a cartoon version although the Grimm fairytales are almost accurate but not as accurate as the Disney films that it almost portrays. I guess that the novel’s magic realism is based on fate for two helpless but hopeful and intelligent people who fall in love.
Querelle – Jean Genet
Querelle is good for anyone who wants to study masculinity in queer studies and the version of the word “queer” itself to clarify what being queer means.
Josephine The Singer or The Mouse Folk -p.256 – Franz Kafka
It’s safe to say that Josephine is an artist all on her own because she sings, and has all these people or mice folk around her who are her supporters who praise her. Josephine is like wrapped cheese and the mice people devour its cheese-like essence. Although they are not cannibal, it makes Josephine look like their music box or their play thing. The story creates a utopia of people who sing to themselves but do not appreciate music as much as Josephine in what Kafka calls a race. Music is not generally loved in that race but Josephine provides them with it and although she is admired, I think that when Josephine hurts her foot we get to ask who is the real hunger artist? Does she hunger for attention in her art alone like the story “The Hunger Artist?” or is it the people who do not seem to care for her, who are hungry for her art, and are her feelings hindered by the fact that they only care for her singing and not her? It is almost like the fact that most singers, actors and actresses alike who are very famous never really get support from their supporters and/or loved ones until they make a comeback. What it means is that Josephine would not give them that satisfaction unless she either had a mental breakdown when she disappeared or a constant state of depression. It reminds me of the saying “what goes up must come down.” Kafka as the narrator says Josephine must go downhill. Like for instance if I was some famous writer who only gave out my poetry for free, would I still be remembered if people enjoyed it? Art is to be enjoyed but the real question is in the story is where does our own existence fit into the equation of our art?
The New Advocate -p.135 Franz Kafka
Bucephalus as a main character in this story has a lot to do with existentialism. Although the story lends itself to another branch of existence called phenomenology, here we can finally take the nihilistic approach because at the end of the story, Kafka writes almost word for word that Bucephalus reads and turns the pages of our ancient tomes. So here we are probably wondering why the nihilistic approach. It is because he acts as a god to our time. He is there in a room turning pages and reading about our lives as people. So we should ask ourselves who are we in his eyes as he turns to pages of the lives of many? Are our lives in a book or are our lives depicted by his perceptions? Who are we even as people to him? Bucepahlus acts as God because he has the right to judge almost making God look human because he himself is human. After all, Bucephalus was a warrior and fought with Alexander of Macedon and his existence is praised by many. But who is he in their eyes but a historian. I conclude that if history were to be rewritten who would be the next God to judge us with his eyes in mere books of our tomes? It is almost like looking through an akashic record because he looks through books of our lives and according to wikipedia, the akashic records are, in theosophy and anthroposophy, a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent to have ever occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, and not only just human. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane. It is believed all thoughts, words, intent etc. generates its own unique “frequency or vibration” which is stored in the Akashic Records, and that makes Bucephalus all knowing once he grasps the pages of our histories and our lives almost like a historian, akashic librarian or even a God.