05-05-2004, 11:42 AM | #21 | |
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Thanks for reminding me of the poetry - I hadn't read it in a while (I should be more careful about writing "I'm sure we all agree", shouldn't I )
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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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05-05-2004, 10:04 PM | #22 | |
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06-03-2004, 10:37 AM | #23 |
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I think you guys are all forgetting the most significant works of the Victorian age:
Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Just kidding. However, I did write an undergrad thesis on these books and, in the process, I discovered that they are supposedly the most quoted books in the English language aside from the bible and shakespeare. I don't know what that says about people who speak English and I'm not sure I want to know, but I thought that was funny enough to mention here. |
01-30-2006, 04:35 PM | #24 |
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Anyone watch the new Bleak House?
Guppy is my hero.... Actually I've only seen the first 2 of 8 hours, so I don't know what our stalker friends ends up doing. An update on Victorian Lit, since I posted a year ago. Read Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Basic Hardy. Read Mayor of Casterbridge-- heartily enjoyed. Nothing better than watching a man's breakdown and path to corruption. ( And no, that was not sarcastic) I also read Wilkie Collin's the Moonstone and Woman in White. Very intriguing books and characters.
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02-02-2006, 11:06 AM | #25 |
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Bleak House was on here in the autumn - I thought it was great! It's a difficult book to film because there's so many characters and plots going on at once, but they did a good job of it.
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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. |
02-20-2006, 04:56 PM | #26 |
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I've seen the first 6 of 8 hours now. Just the grand finale next Sunday!
I was visiting a college last weekend and sat in on an American History course and a Victorian Lit course. In VL they were discussing Hard Times, which I was faintly familiar with. It wasn't completely lost on me! The professor did give away part of Bleak House though...got into a discussion about Dickens, HT's serial publication, mentioned it being like Bleak House on Sunday nights...has to keep you interested...and proceeded to tell us something we didn't know was coming (on purpose). The whole class was in an uproar
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Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries. Last edited by Mercutio : 02-20-2006 at 04:59 PM. |
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