Posted on 10/27/2005 8:31:33 AM PDT by The Zontron 7000
I'll tell Santa...that way, I don't have to put out the bucks...;o]
(We Scots are rather frugal...)
LOL
Aren't we all!
An hour? ONLY an hour?
Before this afternoon, my last post on this thread was at #319; the day of the move. I read through about post 1000 one day last week, but hadn't the time to post anything until today. If I end up away from UT for more than a day -- especially if I've been away over a weekend -- I usually don't read much of the intervening stuff unless there's a real buzz about something.
I usually just read back about 50 posts and try to "merge" with the current flow of the thread. It's about all I can make time for.
I hope you never run out of reading material.
I know I never will, 'cause that reading assignment I was given in fifth grade is still incomplete.
"Aren't we all?"
More and more with every passing, well-charred day; in honor of which, I've revamped my tagline.
I know what you mean. Life is just full of them four letter words, idn't it?
Yours was fifth-grade? Well, ya got me beat. I managed to keep up all the way until I hit my "World Literature" class in High School. I never did get through "Wuthering Heights". Reading Bronte's work was as mentally laborious as physically wading across a neck-deep lake of peanut butter the breadth of Lake Michigan. Before "Wuthering Heights" I'd never read a work where the author took more than a page to describe a character. Feh! Bronte can burn up that much real estate on just a person's nose, nevermind the rest of their face and overall demeanor.
"...I know I never will, 'cause that reading assignment I was given in fifth grade is still incomplete."
By the fourth grade, we (my sister and I) had read all the books in the junior library and were working on the "adult" section. Of course, anything with profanity was never allowed...still, by 6th grade, we were buying paperbacks because we were so hungry for things to read.
Even the school libraries were well used...dunno...seems I've had a book in front of my face since I was three...
Heh.
I'm not prepared to give up on them yet.
I hope I'm right.
:-?
LOL! Works for me! When I was a kid, the movies with the "French Foreign Leigion" were the ones to watch for bravery and valor...we must have been watching thier recruiting films...
I hope you're right, too.
I'm just waiting to see whether they'll rediscover their national spine before it's too late.
"Let them eat baklava!"
Who knows?
Um...I'm female, and I didn't get it...
Everyone says they will reach the breaking point.
I hope it's not too late.
No Baklava,
or SOUP !
LOL.
So, maybe one needs to be an airhead to get it.
:-)
Back then, people used words the way poets do today, to set the mood, to establish a fabric for the story to be played out upon.
Today our national mood can be described as "standing in front of the microwave, tapping your foot."
We want action, and we want it now! (Hmm. Is that the reason I named my third book "Action!"? -- No, It was for another reason, because it was supposed to take place on a movie set!)
I don't use a tapestry of words to set the mood, because we have gotten used to the shorthand signals of impending mood changes. References to the weather, or to the growing darkness.
Not only literature, but movies use this shorthand also. In "The Terminator", at the end of the movie, she asks, "What did he just say?"
-- "There's a storm coming."
*Putting her sunglasses on* "I know!" She drives away.
*Roll credits*
"Wuthering Heights" was certainly done well in terms of overall plot, literary quality and such, but it does NOT "move along", and I found that Bronte's descriptions of people and places were so plush with detail that, by the time I'd finish reading a description, I'd nearly lost my grip on the storyline and had to skip back a page or so to pick it up, again.
I dunno...I got blonde roots...
See, that 'splains why I couldn't get into her works...I kept finding myself saying, "Huh?'
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