disquisition

PLAYER. I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory--they're all blood, you see.

--Tom Stoppard
  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Act One

I don't know if dissertations get to have epigraphs, but if they do, this one is mine.

Haven't worked on the dis since Friday, when I finished reading the Rabinowitz. Just now got all the quotes I need into my monstrously large quote file and have flagged the two places in the introduction where Rabinowitz needs to go. Find myself daunted by the prospect of taking the thing apart sufficiently to integrate him, and so have decided to stop there.

Also v. v. tired. Shall hope to find my groove again tomorrow or Tuesday.

*sigh*