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With a kind smile and bright demeanor, Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 doesn’t seem a likely match for the cryptic, tenebrous Paul Celan, a mid 20th-century German-Jewish poet who famously wrote works about the Holocaust. Nonetheless, her thesis explored what she terms “ineffability as a philosophical problem” in Celan’s work, or “how to talk about what you can’t talk about.”As a co-Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Gamut, a poetry editor on Persephone...
...defending the song, Jenkins does something eerie: he recites all the lyrics, including lines like “But girl if you would let me/ I’ll take your pants off/ I gotta little bit of blow/ We could both get off” with a half-smile on his face. “[It] was one of our biggest hits,” he says, calmly, when he finishes. “The point of the song was to be as nihilistic as possible. Fans get it. They get the irony of the song...
...didn’t, really. I just thought I’d say that,” he said with a chuckle and a smile. The crowd burst into laughter...
...become meaningless. But the Arctic Monkeys get it just right with this song, as they do on the whole album. As their last few lines attest, “In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side / With your hands between your thighs / And a smile.” It’s a post-storm rainbow and a hopeful indication of what the Monkeys will be like when they’re even older...
...usually about three minutes into my walk, I am tempted to think of this condition as incurable. But truly learned Harvardians must never give up on those unluckier than us. The next time a Cambridge driver gestures monodigitally at you or runs over your toe, smile and wave. They might slow down to gawk at you just enough to get under the speed limit. What a difference you can make...