Iconageness

Just trying out my new icon :) Revision is okish. Blah. Ah well, am almost half way through after tomorrow. Yay.

Background reading issues. Grr.

Oh how I hate it when I'm supposed to know about small chunks of other people's literature to understand what I'm reading. Don't get me wrong - I like to understand, and I like to read the background stuff, but I like to read it PROPERLY. Rather than saying 'Kant said this:"[futile attempt to sum up Kant's whole philosophy in three sentences]" so Kleist wrote about this:'

It annoys me. Because obviously from that I don't understand Kant's theory properly and therefore I cannot truly understand Kleist's take on it, but I don't have the time or the resources to look up what Kant actually meant. But we don't have a German philosophy course. Grr. The same goes with Freud's take on Hoffmann. OK, fair enough, I get the whole castration complex thing and the eyes, but honestly. Can we not take a little longer to look at these things? Stupid racing-through-German-literary-history course. Meh.

At least next year I get to do things PROPERLY. I get to read stuff in more depth. It should actually be good. I hope, at any rate....