... disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no."

[truepenny]

I've revised my revisions of the Introduction and the Seneca chapter, discovering gleefully along the way that I don't need near as much Latin in the Seneca chapter as I've currently got. Again, the universe rewards me for bad behavior--because if I'd been virtuous and finished doing the translating before I figured this out, I'd now be peevish and cranky instead of delighted.

Also walking that narrow and tricky line between slavish adherence to the professor's every marginal whim and the Inner Three-Year-Old who glowers and shouts Shan't! when presented with even the most reasonable of requests.

But I've reached a point where I need to (a.) write a paragraph or so explaining the relevance of the Seneca chapter to the early modern chapters, and (b.) finish the fucking translations already, and I can call the first two sections of my dissertation (There are eight sections--introd., Seneca, Kyd, R3 & Titus, Hamlet, Jacobeans, concl., and coda--so the metaphor of putting an octopus to bed is more than usually appropriate.) provisionally done.

*glower*
Shan't!

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how often sloughing something off looks like progress.

I got a good fifty pages out of Blood & Iron through the this-scene-sucks-and-I-could-just-cut-it-instead-of-rewrite technique....

Who really needs all that exposition, anyway?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, it is progress. It's seeing what you need instead of what you think you need.

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear - a good day's crap-cutting is often as much hard work, and as beneficial to the end product, as a day's writing the crap in the first place.
Albeit, you can't have one without the other!

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

My problem was that whenever I looked at my thesis it got two lines shorter. While this may be a virtue, it's a virtue that will eventually leave you without a thesis. It's especially annoying when your professor wants you to cut one thing and you want to cut another, and you end up cutting both... But oh, the wonderful feeling of liberation when seeing a piece of crappy writing and bad research go into the trash!

[necessaryspace.livejournal.com]

**disinclined to acquiesce to your request** That's the best phrase that came out of that movie. It does wonderful things for everday conversations.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I have a great fondness for "But why is the rum gone?" myself.

But then I like that entire movie perhaps far more than I ought.

[necessaryspace.livejournal.com]

**But then I like that entire movie perhaps far more than I ought.** No such thing (says the person who can pretty much quote all of Return of the Jedi) =)

[libskrat]

Can't! Don't! Shan't! Won't!
Pass it along the line!
Somebody's pack has slid from his back.
Wish it were only mine!

- Kipling, "Parade-song of the Camp Animals: Commissariat Camels," The Jungle Book

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Thank you!