Ithaca
Today, I went for Ithaca's Apple harvest fest--it's a country fair where farmers come out to sell apple cider, apples, apple pie. Very rural, very small town. Exoticized oriental food alongside hot dogs. Cotton candy, funnel cakes, kettle corn and granny apples. Junky earrings, carnival rides, mediocre paintings by hobbyists.
It's getting colder, the sort of cold that makes you restive. I met a wine vineyard manager this weekend. Maybe I could help with the harvest one weekend. The town I live in, Ithaca, was named after Greek mythology. It is bordered by the town of Ulysses. The college town does have a lot of Greek life, I guess that's what warrants its name.
According to Dante, after Ulysses had returned home to Ithaca and had settled down to rule his island kingdom, he became restless and desired to set out on another voyage of exploration to the west. In old age, he persuaded a band of his followers to accompany him on such a voyage. "Consider your origin," he addressed them, "ye were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge." I think, he was saying, Ithaca was way too cold.
It's getting colder, the sort of cold that makes you restive. I met a wine vineyard manager this weekend. Maybe I could help with the harvest one weekend. The town I live in, Ithaca, was named after Greek mythology. It is bordered by the town of Ulysses. The college town does have a lot of Greek life, I guess that's what warrants its name.
According to Dante, after Ulysses had returned home to Ithaca and had settled down to rule his island kingdom, he became restless and desired to set out on another voyage of exploration to the west. In old age, he persuaded a band of his followers to accompany him on such a voyage. "Consider your origin," he addressed them, "ye were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge." I think, he was saying, Ithaca was way too cold.
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i realised after all this time i don't have your email address and am hence unable to send you a deluge of songs.
how have you been.
send me songs! whats your email? mine's dawnmlim@gma il.com . i will email you.
hello darling, all i have are japanese songs but they are very nice. shall i send you some? i think scotland is too cold for apples to grow, and the strawberries are quickly running out of season.
yes please! i don't know anything about japanese songs. are they emotionally manipulative? scotland cant be colder than ithaca. scotland must just have...inferior soil. Dawn
darling, when i say i have a lot of japanese songs i really mean A LOT. tell me what you like. i have boybands, indie chicks, celine-dion soundalikes, male light rock bands, and a lot of random other stuff. currently listening to happy songs with sad undertones if that makes sense. also, my cool nigeria chick friend has given me nigerian music and south korean rnb if you like.
scotland uses soil for grass for sheep. evidently inferior.
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