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Cellos and Essays

  • Oct. 16th, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Fuchsia
I've decide to drastically cut back on the amount I'm writing for [info]jonowrimo . I really can't cope making myself write 1000 words a night. I don't want my writing to become a chore. I also think I need to spend some time over half-term sorting out world-building notes, character lists (I've lost count of several name and people), and a few plot issues, which I don't have time too right now.

On a happier note, English Lit has drastically improved since one kid dropped it.  I was surprised to find I'm doing better in the class on Romantic Poetry and use of Narrative, than I am in the Death of A Salesman class. (A* to A I think). Which is odd, as I'm already bored with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Keats' rampant misogyny is really stating to irritate me. Though trying to argue that La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a feminist poem is fun.
History remains, at least in one class, dull and full of idiots (the idiots are in the other class but they just sit there in stupefied silence in that one. Why, hello there intellectual elitism!) But still 3 and a half out of 4 subjects being enjoyable is good.

Oh, oh. I have found (well, been recommended), a Victorian cello-rock band! And they are mighty!



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[info]alankria wrote:
Oct. 16th, 2008 09:17 pm (UTC)
Ooh, Death of a Salesman. I enjoyed studying that one. I wrote coursework about the stage directions in the final page or so of Act One. (An essay that is now lost to time, alas.)
[info]lysan wrote:
Oct. 17th, 2008 12:12 pm (UTC)
It's a wonderful play, the characters are so deeply flawed and frustrating, and it works! I'm not sure what my coursework for it is on, possibly the narrative structure of the play. And wow, I would love to get a coursework on the stage directions, they're so incredibly detailed, and add whole new layers of meaning to the play.

BTW Have you read Catherynne M Valente's The Labyrinth? I've just bought it on a whim from Play (It's not like I have another 40 books to read or anything), and I'm curious.
[info]alankria wrote:
Oct. 17th, 2008 05:07 pm (UTC)
We got told we could write about anything in the play for the coursework; our teacher encouraged us to choose different parts and different subjects. He helped us formulate a question, of course, so it wasn't completely dumb. I suspect the stage directions were his idea and I leapt on it because it was an interesting thing to write an essay about.
[info]alankria wrote:
Oct. 17th, 2008 05:07 pm (UTC)
Oh! And yes, I have read that book. It's lyrical and whimsical and very, very good fun, if you like that kind of thing.
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