Wednesday, November 16, 2005
(4:03 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Between the times
The Seminary Coop Bookstore, supposedly the best and most powerful academic bookstore in the History of Man, does not yet have Giorgio Agamben's The Time that Remains in stock. That means that my recent Agamben binge -- which included five hours of detailed note-taking over Homo Sacer today -- is presently on hiatus. I'm starting to get moody. Just now, one of the cats jumped up on my lap and I about snapped. I tossed her across the room. (Actually, I'm at school -- the cats are miles away and are incapable of jumping that far.) I'm getting a headache worse than the worst caffeine-withdrawal headache I've ever had.I've... I've got the DTs, man! The DTs, which of course can be translated into math as dt, the time differential, the time -- shall we say it? -- that ... remains! How long O Lord?!
Okay. There are other books I haven't read. Admittedly, many of them are out of print. Or, God forbid, I could start working on that Mountain of Nancy that is bearing down on my very soul -- or even the few remaining church fathers. But that would be like drinking tea when what you really want is coffee -- inadequate.
This is pathetic.
