ethan frome. youre dirtier than 4chan.

i think it is funny how

when you start to pursue one of your passions
or when something becomes a big focus to you

everything relating to that subject jumps out at you

we discussed this today in class
some coined a good phrase for it
but that phrase escapes me now.

and on a side note,
last year i took a shakespeare class
and everything shakespeare still jumps out at me

onward.

i am reading ethan frome
or more listening to it

i have gotten in a good groove of listening
while i drive to and from school
and it is working for me

this paragraph jumped out at me
from chapter 5

"He knew that most
young men made nothing at all of giving a pretty girl a
kiss, and he remembered that the night before, when
he had put his arm about Mattie, she had not resisted.
But that had been out-of-doors, under the open
irresponsible night. Now, in the warm lamplit room,
with all its ancient implications of conformity and
order, she seemed infinitely farther away from him and
more unapproachable."

There are a lot of ways we can relate to this idea
simply alone

in relation to our lives in a digital world

one take is a nod to what i touched upon in my last post 
this idea that when people get deep into the internet
a whole nother (woah infix anyone) side and personality comes out

"'Likewise the Internet allows us to indulge in conduct that we would ordinarily not feel comfortable in. We traverse and /or indulge and express our innermost unconscious desires.'"

being outside allows ethan to feel irresponsible enough
to be making moves on the young hired help
while his wife is sick inside

much like people tend to do ballsier things
when they are on the internet and feel unaccounted for
or even texting and feel the same

the second nod. has slipped my mind.