And here I was thinking all you Americans were coffee drinkers.
.-. I don't drink coffee either
I could take it or leave it.
"Do you want coffee?"
"Doesn't matter to me."
Do you want to hear a story about when I was a riverboat captain in the Congo?
/starts telling it anyways
Dude, I was talking to the English department head at the school I'm interning today and she started talking about how much she hated Heart of Darkness.
We should start a club: The Joseph Conrad Haters Society
Sadly, for us to be haters we've all read the book multiple times, analyzed it and have a rather strong knowledge of the text xD
... Dammit, that's true. Well, if anything, we know why we hate it, at least.
And here I was thinking all you Americans were coffee drinkers.
.-. I don't drink coffee either
I could take it or leave it.
"Do you want coffee?"
"Doesn't matter to me."
Do you want to hear a story about when I was a riverboat captain in the Congo?
/starts telling it anyways
Dude, I was talking to the English department head at the school I'm interning today and she started talking about how much she hated Heart of Darkness.
We should start a club: The Joseph Conrad Haters Society
Sadly, for us to be haters we've all read the book multiple times, analyzed it and have a rather strong knowledge of the text xD
... Dammit, that's true. Well, if anything, we know why we hate it, at least.
Yea same reason everyone does, Conrad is annoyingly long winded for no reason.
My professor was talking about how Milton was hard to read and I was like, "Don't worry, it'll prep anyone who wants to do Brit Lit 2 for the hell on earth that is Joesph Conrad." He chuckled.
It's way too dense, the symbolism is everywhere and it would take the patience of a humpback whale to figure it all out, it's almost as tough to read as Finnegan's Wake...
You can have all of our snow if you want. There's none on the ground right now but that's not the point!
I'm also half-tempted to ask you to tell me WHY you hate Heart of Darkness, but I feel like that might be opening a can of worms and I'd regret it.
Just said it before you could even post it!
Yeah, I'm a slow one. Always have to think out everything I'm saying before I start to type it out, and have to make sure it's what I'm really trying to say.
I wish I could make myself read "real" literature, but if it's not sci-fi, fantasy, horror or some similar form of fiction, I just can't make myself care much about it.
You can have all of our snow if you want. There's none on the ground right now but that's not the point!
I'm also half-tempted to ask you to tell me WHY you hate Heart of Darkness, but I feel like that might be opening a can of worms and I'd regret it.
Just said it before you could even post it!
Yeah, I'm a slow one. Always have to think out everything I'm saying before I start to type it out, and have to make sure it's what I'm really trying to say.
I wish I could make myself read "real" literature, but if it's not sci-fi, fantasy, horror or some similar form of fiction, I just can't make myself care much about it.
Who says fantasy can't be real literature?
Hell you can parallel Paradise Lost to The Lord of the Rings and argue Middle Earth is Eden!
A understanding of historic Lit can make you appreciate more modern Lit that much more. Hell I paralleled one older tale with Magnus on Harry Potter the other day. It's fun.
You can have all of our snow if you want. There's none on the ground right now but that's not the point!
I'm also half-tempted to ask you to tell me WHY you hate Heart of Darkness, but I feel like that might be opening a can of worms and I'd regret it.
Just said it before you could even post it!
Yeah, I'm a slow one. Always have to think out everything I'm saying before I start to type it out, and have to make sure it's what I'm really trying to say.
I wish I could make myself read "real" literature, but if it's not sci-fi, fantasy, horror or some similar form of fiction, I just can't make myself care much about it.
I used to be the same way, then I said, "Oh, I know! I'm going to be an English teacher!" and suddenly I'm knee deep in metaphors about darkness and some guy whining under a lime tree because his friends got to enjoy nature while he was doing opium and nursing his burned legs.
You can have all of our snow if you want. There's none on the ground right now but that's not the point!
I'm also half-tempted to ask you to tell me WHY you hate Heart of Darkness, but I feel like that might be opening a can of worms and I'd regret it.
Just said it before you could even post it!
Yeah, I'm a slow one. Always have to think out everything I'm saying before I start to type it out, and have to make sure it's what I'm really trying to say.
I wish I could make myself read "real" literature, but if it's not sci-fi, fantasy, horror or some similar form of fiction, I just can't make myself care much about it.
Who says fantasy can't be real literature?
Hell you can parallel Paradise Lost to The Lord of the Rings and argue Middle Earth is Eden!
A understanding of historic Lit can make you appreciate more modern Lit that much more. Hell I paralleled one older tale with Magnus on Harry Potter the other day. It's fun.
It made me want to teach HP in my curriculum, actually.
Oh, well I realize fantasy can be literature. I guess I just didn't express myself well in that sense.
A lot of it has to do with the time periods where the stories take place. Most of the time, stories taking place before I was born don't interest me. The exceptions (so far) being Shakespeare, and books like The Stand and one called Cat Magic. But even those can be hard to get myself into at first.
Oh, well I realize fantasy can be literature. I guess I just didn't express myself well in that sense.
A lot of it has to do with the time periods where the stories take place. Most of the time, stories taking place before I was born don't interest me. The exceptions (so far) being Shakespeare, and books like The Stand and one called Cat Magic. But even those can be hard to get myself into at first.
Understandable.
Shakespeare's plays are for the most part very good.
But I will tell you one one piece of advice my prof told me.
Take the text and make it your own, make it relevant to your time so you can understand the story that lies within. That way it will keep you interested and you can own the text. "Sometimes it's a dragon, other times it's a paper."
Yes, I just quoted myself.
That's a good exception. Some of that stuff can be a gateway drug. Just sayin'...
A lot of it is fun, and it doesn't take forever to read (I read slow... Not because I have trouble with the words, but I like to paint a picture in my head of what's going on as I go, like watching a movie)... Again, it's mostly just the time period that puts me off. I'm weird like that.
Oh, well I realize fantasy can be literature. I guess I just didn't express myself well in that sense.
A lot of it has to do with the time periods where the stories take place. Most of the time, stories taking place before I was born don't interest me. The exceptions (so far) being Shakespeare, and books like The Stand and one called Cat Magic. But even those can be hard to get myself into at first.
Understandable.
Shakespeare's plays are for the most part very good.
But I will tell you one one piece of advice my prof told me.
Take the text and make it your own, make it relevant to your time so you can understand the story that lies within. That way it will keep you interested and you can own the text. "Sometimes it's a dragon, other times it's a paper."
Yes, I just quoted myself.
It also helps to actually watch a performance of it. Oftentimes the context makes a ton more sense when you have people acting it out. Of course, this doesn't include the sonnets.
Oh, well I realize fantasy can be literature. I guess I just didn't express myself well in that sense.
A lot of it has to do with the time periods where the stories take place. Most of the time, stories taking place before I was born don't interest me. The exceptions (so far) being Shakespeare, and books like The Stand and one called Cat Magic. But even those can be hard to get myself into at first.
Understandable.
Shakespeare's plays are for the most part very good.
But I will tell you one one piece of advice my prof told me.
Take the text and make it your own, make it relevant to your time so you can understand the story that lies within. That way it will keep you interested and you can own the text. "Sometimes it's a dragon, other times it's a paper."
Yes, I just quoted myself.
It also helps to actually watch a performance of it. Oftentimes the context makes a ton more sense when you have people acting it out. Of course, this doesn't include the sonnets.
I don't think I want people acting out the sonnets....
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.