Reading any good books?

06-01-2005, 05:14 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Tess of the D'Urbevilles (for English class...we have three days to finish the entire book).

Do you like it? I'm a big Hardy fan but it's never been my favourite book of his. I've started re-reading The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I prefer, though it's still just as depressing

Quote:

Trivia question: what is the title "Things Fall Apart" taken from?

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

The Second Coming, Yeats

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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves
Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand
As they have done for centuries, as they will
For centuries to come, when not a soul
Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks,
When England is not England, when mankind
Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea,
Consolingly disastrous, will return
While the strange starfish, hugely magnified,
Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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