Post Post-Its.

I am going to a library to gather some information. I need to read critical essays.

Other libraries that I have used for dissertation research:
All Saints
Manchester Central

I need to get existing essays that refer to my subject. To do that I must use my university's library internet site. The subject databases will soap the pipe. My information searches need to be refined, all logically sound. I am going to explore the relationship between walking and the arts but as yet I have no 'arguement'. If I find someone else's essay then I can try to contradict them and feel clever.

It still feels like pretending to be a robot. It'd be better for me to write a journalistic article about it than an academic essay. The law behind it scares me, I have never understood intellectual property entirely, although I can understand why people dislike having their ideas stolen. I am afraid of stealing in my sleep. If you wrote only quotations, perhaps that could be fun. I'd like to throw character dialogue in from Home Improvement.

The biggest mess is transforming all of this aquired knowledge into a readable and linear piece of writing. As soon as I have an argument, I can employ the references as sandbags for a trench. This academia-as-warfare game works well with the old paranoia. Nobody's having my ideas. Trouble is, they're covered in educational Agent Orange. Intellectually unfit; too abstract. So I have to don a mature set of robes and get serious, right this minute.

See you again.