So, anyone want to chat silly Poe with me? Just finished reading Wiliam Wilson. That wasn't too predictable. @@
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vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:03:53 am PST #2061 of 28175
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Strega - Mar 09, 2007 5:21:03 am PST #2062 of 28175
Well, a lot of Poe's stories seem cheesy and cliched now, but they weren't at the time. But I'll admit that "William Wilson" was never one of my favorites.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:27:44 am PST #2063 of 28175
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I'm not sure I'd call them cheesy and cliched. I just don't like his writing style, and I thought that "William Wilson" was the most predictable of what I've read so far.
On the other hand, I got it the first time around, so that was nice (unlike "The Cask of Amontillado," which I had to read a few times to make sure what I thought happened really was what had happened).
Strega - Mar 09, 2007 5:32:24 am PST #2064 of 28175
For the love of God, Montressor!
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:35:45 am PST #2065 of 28175
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Ok. Just finished "The Man of the Crowd." That one I liked. His descriptions were really quite amazing.
Nutty - Mar 09, 2007 5:45:34 am PST #2066 of 28175
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I liked "The Man in the Crowd" too -- I read it in a course called Imagination and the City, about 19th C. Paris and London. Just the density and all-day-all-nightness of those cities, for the first time in history (or possibly just a long, long time), the variety -- I think of New York in the 20th C the way I think of Paris and London in the 19th.
Except that frock coats are just prettier than gigantic puffy parkas and clamp-earmuffs.
In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Amy - Mar 09, 2007 5:51:06 am PST #2067 of 28175
Because books.
In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Amble? Not quite it, I guess.
I like flaner a lot. I also like TO flaner a lot.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:51:38 am PST #2068 of 28175
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In reading that story, I also learned the word flaner, with a circumflex over the a, meaning to walk without a specific destination, just sort of absorbing the atmosphere. I haven't found a comparable word in English, yet.
Interesting. I'm lazy and don't often look up words I don't know. I usually just put them into context, which, yes, lazy. So, that's interesting to know.
Ginger - Mar 09, 2007 5:53:11 am PST #2069 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
William Wilson is predictable now because the doppelganger plot has been done a brazillion times since then. It's like Shakespeare is full of cliches.
Are you reading "Mask of the Red Death" or "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:54:17 am PST #2070 of 28175
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Are you reading "Mask of the Red Death" or "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
Nope. Neither of those. Should I?