Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
I'm slogging through Walden again, since it's the 150th anniv. and all. This time it's making me laugh (Thoreau is such an odd duck, and a helluva curmudgeon who can turn a phrase) and cry (so much hasn't changed, and so much has worsened).
Ohhh. I think I'll cheat though and read "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail" I'm reading for the Book Club, one on my own which is a collection of essays called "The Muse is Always Half-Naked in New Orleans," and I'm not sure I can handle another heavy-weight.
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
jostles with ita and Ple to get to the front of the line...
Hey, Andrej Codrescu (spelled wrong, I'm sure) is fun to read.
Speaking of which, I opened a page of Brave New World online for my daughter to see and wound up reading the whole thing right then and there. Compelling little piece of propaganda, that.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
Somehow, that is monumentally gratifying , Hecubus. Seriously, am I missing something not being acquainted with it? Besides being a hippie cliche, that is?
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
Huh. I never noticed that, either. (Of course, last time I read that, I was 16. I might want to take a look at it again.)
I've been meaning to reread Walden, too. Last weekend, I went to Walden Pond with my family, and I was startled at how little of the book I could remember.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
I just reread it last month and didn't pick up on it. Of course now I'm slapping my head.
Am I wrong, Wolfram? Please tell me I'm wrong.
I wish I could. He's a stereotype, but definitely a Jewish one.
How so? It's been years since I've read BNW. I was in high school, and wouldn't have picked up typing, unless the teacher pointed it out (which he didn't). We were talking about BNW early on in the book club thread.