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About Me
My name is Justin and I am currently a third-year science and arts student at the University of British Columbia. I am studying for a B.A. in English Literature and a B.Sc. in Cell Biology and Genetics concurrently through the Dual Degree program. I serve as the Director of Finance for the Science Undergraduate Society and write periodically as one of four bloggers for the UBC Spectator.
In my spare time, I enjoy reading, music, television, blogging, photography, travelling and food. I also find that I am driving more and more enjoyment from playing on Steam so feel free to add me!
My favourite blogs include PresentationZen, PostSecret and Lifehacker but I try to read over 300 blogs with the help of Feedly. Academically, I enjoy perusing Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Public Understanding of Science and Cell.
About Silva Rerum
“Silva rerum,” translated directly from Latin, means “forest of things.” More pertinently, silvae rera were Polish multi-generational family chronicles, documenting the lives of (often, noble) Polish families. Mostly written by family members as a sort of ad hoc diary, silvae rera were typically not meant for print and often documented the mundane alongside the wonderful, the pedestrian with the fantastical. Moreover, they were often lent to family friends for annotations. Polish postmodern writers have attempted to recreate the intertextual and journalistic elements of silvae rera.
Additionally, silva rerum is also casually used when describing “commonplace books.” Particularly during the eighteenth century, learned young men maintained notebooks in which they would enter literary quotations and excerpts they found particularly profound or meaningful as a part of their education.
This blog maintains the traditions of both uses of the term “silva rerum;” it is here that I hope to fully document my personal life, describing the unremarkable along with the extraordinary. Moreover, I hope to compile a list of meaningful literary quotations through each blog post title — they are typically from works of literature (i.e. poetry, literature, songs, etc.)
I should note that this is probably the fourth and most successful (in terms of longevity) iteration of my attempt to enter the blogosphere.
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