Both times I've read Bleak House, I've done it over a couple of months or more, with other stuff in between, and it really works.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2007 4:57:10 pm PST #3517 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Pix - Jan 20, 2007 4:57:14 pm PST #3518 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'd say J. J. Abrams is the anti-Dickens in that he seems to have no plan at all.
t snickers So sadly true.
I suppose I should get back to work. I graded two stacks of quizzes today, but I still have a stack of 60 rough (oh my goodness, so rough and so very painful to read) drafts of 9th grade literary analyses of Lord of the Flies to comment on. And a vocab quiz to write. And also a daily assignment sheet to create. Feh. I really would like a lazy weekend, but I don't think that's happening.
ETA: In terms of episodic masterpieces, they're now reading The Odyssey. Homer's another one who'd be writing for tv and updating his MySpace blog, I think.
Strega - Jan 20, 2007 5:07:07 pm PST #3519 of 10001
You know, Allyson, I was giving you my full attention most of the day. And you see Tim more a lot more often than you see me. Guess I know where I stand. [long-suffering sigh]
...Now I'm glad I stole your notebook! See how you are!
every writer should take a lesson from Dickens.Can't they learn from Stevenson instead? Or someone less mind-numbing?
Allyson - Jan 20, 2007 5:14:44 pm PST #3520 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Of course, I used my last vacation day to spend the day with you.
So. WHATEV.
Strega - Jan 20, 2007 5:16:18 pm PST #3521 of 10001
Dickens was, in many ways, the first celebrity author.Well, I can't really go along with that. For a start, Dickens was after the Romantics.
Ginger - Jan 20, 2007 5:26:19 pm PST #3522 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Most people read Dickens' installments the way people used to watch TV: one episode at a time.
People wrote Dickens' hundreds of letters asking him to spare Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop. Crowds greeted each ship to America bringing new installments, often asking if Little Nell still lived. People sobbed openly about her death. So Tim is a lot like Dickens. Also, neither of them ever worked on Buffy.
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2007 5:32:52 pm PST #3523 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey, Strega! I'm watching Raising Arizona tonight. So you should stop by Movies later.
sarameg - Jan 20, 2007 5:45:21 pm PST #3524 of 10001
OK, I have to say, I love reading teachers discuss. It was awesome fun listening in on my Mom and Kat discuss students and books (despite having nothing to add, it's just great to see people just hitting their stride) and it is again here, reading this.
And the parallels would NEVER have occured to me. So anyway, thank you.
Strega - Jan 20, 2007 5:48:52 pm PST #3525 of 10001
I think we're gonna watch more Wonderfalls tonight. Even though we don't have a training room to exploit. Not that we would use one if we had one.
Just as soon as I stop crying over how mean Allyson is.
Allyson - Jan 20, 2007 5:54:31 pm PST #3526 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You want I should call Danny to bring you a Dr. Pepper?
I have a myspace page. It makes me cry. I also have just the one friend, that manwhore Tom.