Plus, simply based on having read Jude, I could predict nearly the entire plot of Mayor of Casterbridge. Any time you think someone's spouse is dead, they're not, so they can come back into the character's life and torment them. Any time there's a situation where someone's livelihood depends on the outcome of a certain event, it's not going to go well. Rinse, repeat, slit your wrists.
You know, it's possible Hardy was my gateway drug into melodramatic genre fiction and TV. I just applied the formula to Angel and giggled.
Well, you could say that Jude is a CHAMPION, but I don't know of what.
Announcement: I am twelve chapters into Wuthering Heights.
Just remember, P-Cow, it's a very punk rock novel. Sort of like
Sid and Nancy.
I'm willing to concede that ita, msbelle and Teppy are all psychotic.
You know, I believe that the term that ita was looking for is "Bat-shit Crazy".
Surely, Bats put the Bat in that phrase.
Okay. Can I stick with "fucking nuts"?
Sure. Your free time is your own business.
Your free time is your own business.
Hey, man. I used the air quotes. You can't mock me if I'm properly punctuated.
Well, you could say that Jude is a CHAMPION, but I don't know of what.
Ow. Brain hurts. Does that mean Arabella=Buffy and Sue=Cordy?
Hey, man. I used the air quotes. You can't mock me if I'm properly punctuated.
Hi, I don't think we've met. MockyMock McMockerson of the MockReady clan, formerly of DimMock Castle on the shores of Mock Ness. At your service.
If punctuation doesn't protect you among the Buffistas, then I don't think I have any faith left in the world.
The practice always helps, but they're always going to be better than some other poor slob who practices every single night and will never be as good.
This was an enormous Aha! for me. I met somebody who was genuinely gifted in mathematics. He saw it. He understood it. It was play for him -- he took the Putnam for fun, on a dare from a friend, and did very well.
And I realized that I was good, but I wasn't magical.
I had a wonderful conversation with a mathematics professor Senior year. He wanted me to consider going to graduate school in mathematics. I said "But I'm not brilliant." He replied, "Neither am I. But for every Gauss, the field needs a hundred other people to pursue the implications of what he discovered." I've always been amazed by the humility and wisdom of that response.
But I didn't go to graduate school in mathematics.
