Strictly narrative

[altariel]

Turning 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:

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[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

You have to rely on the fact that students have little memory, rarely take notes and even more rarely read them afterwards. (Which does make one wonder why one bothers, from either side of the desk. I justified it on the pay cheque...)