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.

The Breakup 2.0

I read The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media by Ilana Gershon
I was very interested in this idea of how
technology is affecting our personal lives.

This is my review posted in Goodreads:

"While this book was funny and entertaining, Gershon's conclusion limits the further exploration that the subject could provide if there were more hard and fast facts to look into. Gershon explores how social media has come to effect our lives and relationships and, in particular, our breakups. However, she simply concludes that so many new medias are changing so quickly that their impact cannot be determined because everyone uses the media in their own way. Simplified - how relationships are affected can't be summarized because this is just all too new and just too evolving and varying. However, she did bring out an important and interesting idea that there is no standardization in new media. There is no consensus in how it should be used, what is appropriate, or even how it is perceived. Thus, what method you use to break up through is defined on your feelings of the media. We then all interpret things differently as our own social analyst, so a break up over text may seem bad to one and okay to another. Despite the limitation of Gershon's book, she provides a fun sociological look at new age media that is still interesting and though provoking."

While I was disappointed by the lack
of exploration into the idea of relationships
I still found interesting insight
into this idea of the internet and new media
being unable to be regulated and standardized

there really is no way to say
this is the hard fast way things are done
because there are so many varying uses to the internet
and everyone uses it in their own way

and then interprets things in their own way too

in short, the internet is just a beast that cannot be tamed
and that no one has the answers for