Wash ,'The Message'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
P-C, I am now convinced you never sleep. Ever.
Because I've nearly finished a book? Because I like zombies? Because I'm up at the bright and shiny hour of ten in the morning? I don't see where this is coming from, blondie.
If I suggest these three statements are equal in their meanings, aren't I devaluing the definition of "explain"?
Thanks, Cindy. I wanted to challenge Angus as well, but my brains aren't spicy enough.
Angus, so you don't think that suggesting all text is equal devalues literature as a whole?
Well, it might, but (a) "deconstructionism" (sic) never suggested anything of the sort; and (b) the cultural prestige of "literature" has no necessary relationship to the amount of time people spend reading, let alone to the fate of Written Language itself. This last idea is particularly daft, the implication apparently being that if people stopped reading Shakespeare (which doesn't seem likely anyway) all written text would disappear from the face of the earth, we'd be left with nothing but spoken language, and civilisation would collapse. I mean, that's just totally insane every step of the way, no?
I agree with everything you said about the three children's sentences, as indeed would every literary critic or theorist who ever lived.
...although having said that, it's certainly arguable that Chris's sentence is the most explanatory, because by making the most salient point in the most concise way, it really gets to the heart of the matter. The subtext of Chris's laconic answer is: "where we went isn't really important, and what we did when we got there is merely incidental; the thing that made summer fun was that we spent it somewhere other than here." ;-)
Zombies would totally make Wuthering Heights better.
Zombies would totally make Wuthering Heights better.
Isn't there a fucking ghost in this book? There are only forty pages left.
Eh. Not in the Nearly-Headless Nick sense.
Lame!
Also, I missed the dead puppies.
I think there are lots of dogs in Wuthering Heights, not just dead puppies. The Linton's have dogs that bite Catherine I (Fanny?) and Heathcliff (I think) has a dog named Skulher.
Anyway I tend to think Wuthering Heights is a great story, but the narration within a narration starts to wear a bit.
IMO, the second generation comes pretty close, P-C.(I love that book. Why'd I say such a bitchy thing?)
Zombies would totally make Wuthering Heights better.
Isn't Edgar a zombie? Because he sure the hell seems like one....