Strictly narrative
Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielTurning away from difficult issues, I'm internally debating the ethics of going to see Sylvia. It's hard not to take into account what Frieda Hughes has written:
"Now they want to make a film
For anyone lacking the ability
To imagine the body, head in oven
Orphaning children."
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I really enjoy my offline reading group, but we decided at the outset not to read classics, in which I am woefully under-read. There should be a reading group for people hastily trying to fill the gaps in their reading. A sort of mutual support group in response to that game in that David Lodge novel, where all the English Lit academics admit to the most gaping hole in their reading.
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And, thirdly:
"Now they want to make a film
For anyone lacking the ability
To imagine the body, head in oven
Orphaning children."
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I really enjoy my offline reading group, but we decided at the outset not to read classics, in which I am woefully under-read. There should be a reading group for people hastily trying to fill the gaps in their reading. A sort of mutual support group in response to that game in that David Lodge novel, where all the English Lit academics admit to the most gaping hole in their reading.
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And, thirdly:
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Date: 2004-02-03 05:50 pm (UTC)So that's what Denethor used...
Re: reading - I dropped English lit at 16 and kind of regret it. And I bullshit wildly about things I haven't read (but have read other people's opinions of!).
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Date: 2004-02-03 06:23 pm (UTC)I'd really love a list of all the excellent books that I've never read (which would be a really long one) and a few months off to read them all. With intermittend trips to the pub for a rest, of course. Unfortunately, my definition of excellent also includes the pre-requisite that I enjoy the books as well as admiring the writing, and it's much harder to get someone to create a list with that particular requirement in mind!
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Date: 2004-02-04 10:02 am (UTC)You are who I think you are, aren't you? :-D *adds you to friends list*
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Date: 2004-02-11 03:26 am (UTC)I don't know if I am who you think I am - tricky to say! I probably am though ;-)
One day we really will go punting on the Cam so I can find out if I can do the jumping out of the boat and running over the top of the bridge trick!
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Date: 2004-02-11 10:39 am (UTC)One day we really will go punting on the Cam so I can find out if I can do the jumping out of the boat and running over the top of the bridge trick!
:-D Yes, you are who I think you are!
My South Park piccie isn't as nice as yours.
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:55 pm (UTC)If you know who I am you won't be surpised to learn I got lost again yesterday. On Coldham's lane. How can anyone get lost on Coldham's lane? I don't know. It's not like I don't drive down it at least twice a month.
Speaking of which, I'd love to pop in and catch up with you and "Mr Altariel" some time. There aren't enough hours in the day to catch up over email!
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