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Monday, March 30, 2020

Prepping

Sent a short recorded lecture with some context and provocations for thinking through John Carpenter's film They Live, which my grad seminar would have been screening together this week if it weren't for the Rona. Working on notes now for an undergraduate lecture of Terence's Eunuchus and Suetonius' satirical portrait of a satirical emperor, Caligula. Given the stereophonic catastrophes of plague-time under an shitty murderous con-man tyrant and also the fraught completion of term under quarantine in a school that has already announced its imminent eclipse, it may come as no surprise to hear that tho' the demands of the day are really quite high I am finding it personally quite difficult to muster let alone sustain the levels of concentration I usually marshal to craft lecture notes or read through a thesis draft or keep up with student correspondence. My mind is mushed. It's hard to push through apathy and distraction at a time like this. Just got Sylvester McCoy's third season as the Doctor on blu ray and also NK Jemisin's latest novel The City We Became in the mail yesterday and I would much rather devote attention to them than scribble about rape culture in Roman Republican situation comedies right about now thank you very much. But there it is.

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

They Live is a movie that looms larger in the rear view mirror than it did when it first came out. Carpenter has been a big influence on me.

Dale Carrico said...

So good to hear from you! Be well! Discussing They Live is always so much fun, it's really a rather glorious mess of a film.