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"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!" |
Posted on 10/30/2020 6:21:50 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
I really enjoy your posts. Thank you for your time and meticulous research.
Inevitably, Hemingway must surface, with this anecdote perhaps best contrasting the two authors: the Dodgers used to visit Havana during spring training, and manager Burt Shotten became friendly with Ernie. They often pushed back the living room furniture and boxed, until Mrs. Hemingway couldn't stand it anymore and threw all of them out.
At 71 now with much more to do than time in which to do it, that will have to be the final score. Glad you've had such a rewarding literary life.
Well, you’ll have the chance to ask him! Very perceptive question, one that off the top of my head he never answered in his voluminous writings.
Today’s final tally: Tissot 4, Doré 2. My PR (personal record) of Tissot pictures in a single thread is SEVEN! You can be fully assured that, if there is a Tissot or a Doré on a given subject, I will hunt it down and post it. They’re the best!
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"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!" |
Well, assuming pompously and pretentiously that Conor is correct: Glad to hear it! Being meticulous is necessary for this, and it is only one of the characteristics He has created me with and developed in me which suit me to this project He invented to keep me busy.
Well, I thank you for your inspiring posts. :)
THAT, that the Lord can and will use these amalgamations of Scripture and art to inspire (and, where needed, to convict), is my chief hope and prayer, every day.
I had to read The Bear in college too. How I passed that exam was a miracle because everything I studied in college was aimed at getting good grades. I didn't enjoy reading anything.
When I retired (at age 53) (as a self-made multimillionaire), I astonished myself by suddenly enrolling in college again with a full time freshman load. I wanted an A in everything--and I got it; however, this time, I did it because I loved what I was learning.
I have continued studying to this day. I was astonished to learn that I love studying. All those years of working and studying hard paid off because it all had become habit. I loved it when I didn't have to do it.
I read The Sound and the Fury five times. I didn't understand it. I read Faulkner's explanation, and it confused me even more.
Then, one night at a party, at my sister's house, I met a friend of hers who taught Faulkner at the local college. I said to her: "You're not leaving here tonight until you tell me what The Sound and the Fury is about!"
She sat on the sofa with me for two or three hours, explained everything to me, answered all my questions.
Then I read it again. It was crystal clear.
So, in fifty words or less, what’s it about?
Dore wins this thread with me. I like his picture the best.
Tissot disappointed me. He showed Absalom on a horse, not a mule.
For creativity, I like the picture of Joab stabbing Absalom with a medieval lance.
And Tissot in #30 showed him full of arrows, when the text clearly states, “And ten of Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.” Not an arrow in sight. Clearly an off-day for ol’ Jacques Joseph.
The title is from MacBeth:
(Life) "is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Faulkner's tale is told by four people, one an idiot.
Faulner presents the sound and fury. The reader must decide whether there is any meaning.
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