Thursday, November 02, 2006
Well, well, well... it looks like we female Lit students are fated to ponder over the question of Dr Y's marital status for ever. No big deal; not knowing the truth will allow us to go on speculating and gossiping. As Lacan says, we are always moving along the metonymic chain of desire, asymptotically approximating but never obtaining the object of desire. Ie. that's just the French poststructuralists' way of saying we're all losers who are starved of gossip.
But wait, there's more breaking news! I met my senior Jean the other day and we had a wonderful long talk. She told me that Dr G, the alleged genius in the Lit Dept and good friend of Dr Y, has just found out he needs to do reservist in the last 2 weeks of the semester as well. And I was suddenly struck with artistic inspiration, which, trust me, doesn't strike me more than once in a few years and usually fizzles out after a few failures. Can you imagine it - Dr G and Dr Y running up the hill in army fatigues, lugging huge army packs on their backs? It'll be like The Odd Couple, The Singapore Army Version: a comedy about two English Lit lecturers stuck on a hill dying for 2 weeks in the name of serving the nation. In terms of dramatic visual effect, the contrast in their physical appearances is enough to get the audience laughing. I'm so won over by the cuteness of the idea! But PY says that there's nothing "cute" about it at all, and Xuan accuses me of putting all sorts of disturbing images in her head. (But she was the one who put the exercise gear business in my head.)
Anyway, enough about that. Xuan's right; I'm getting obsessed. And I'm still obsessing over what to write for my 20th century essay. I've got two rather interesting arguments that I want to make, and I can't decide which one I want to write on! ARGGGHHH!!!
kaoru said at 7:34 AM
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