Ok. Just finished "The Man of the Crowd." That one I liked. His descriptions were really quite amazing.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:35:45 am PST #2065 of 28175
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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?
Ginger - Mar 09, 2007 5:56:58 am PST #2071 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"Mast of the Red Death" is an allegory that still seems fresh to me, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" is cheesy fun. It's where all the overwrought Vincent Price horror movies came from.
vw bug - Mar 09, 2007 5:57:45 am PST #2072 of 28175
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Ah...will make note and read tonight before I return the book to the library.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 09, 2007 5:58:01 am PST #2073 of 28175
What is even happening?
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.
Meander? Wander? Stroll? Ramble? Roam? Traipse? Saunter?
eta...
Rove?
Amy - Mar 09, 2007 6:02:37 am PST #2074 of 28175
Because books.
Meander is good!
I love words. Where is it they have, like, thirty different words for snow?