lodessa | Tuesdays = so Tuesday-like

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Tuesdays = so Tuesday-like

1) 2 Weeks and 3 Days Until my GRE Subject Test for Literature in English. I am in no way prepared. Please ask me more questions.

2) I am not stalking Alan Rickman and Eliza Dushku; because, hey I really don't need to make an ass of myself in front of famous people I am actually impressed by. Also: work.

3) My sister has named her new kitten Mr. Ernest Worthing... no one said we weren't a nerdy family (Just be glad that that we didn't go with Ziggy Stardust or Buddy Holly or Biggie Smalls or any of the other ideas that were popular).

4) This weekend my cousin Rachel got married. My cousin Matt was a bridesmaid... he also caught the bouquet.

5)I have pretty pretty nails (pink and whites and shiny light pink on the toes with white flowers and purple rhinestones). They make me feel... classy.

6) Possibly I never mentioned how pretty my undergraduate school is.

That's a fairly accurate representation of the school's buildings and grounds... not just the one perfect view or something.

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I am impressed at your willpower to not stalk them ^__^ You should at least make your brother go get their autographs or something though ^__^

Best of luck with the subject test *hugs*

I just know I would be unhappy with the results of my stalking and forever remember how dumb I came off.

Yeah, and that would completely suck

Exactly. This way I save myself from creating humiliating memories.

^__^ Yeah... I so wish I could meet them though

Yeah me too

(Also probably my boyfriend does because we have a threesome clause involving Eliza Dushku)

Wow......... that would be awesome ^__~

Yes... but that is fantasy land so we will never actually know.

Yeah rather

Le sigh

Awww

Tell me all about Edith Wharton.

Edith Wharton was a female American novelist (I believe contemporary to Henry James). Her books are generally depressing and deal with upper class (although often short of money) characters who generally suffer because of their inability to give up their notions of propriety and change with the times which results in seperating them from love and/or money. Her books often take place in New York, and reflect the common theme in works of that era that wealth is changing hands and the difficulty high society has in accepting that means are not going to stay a hereditary inheritance. Her style is somewhat removed from her characters, mocking them implicitly without ever directly censuring them. Popular works include: House of Mirth, Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome.

Very nice. Also, friend/rival of Henry James, and you might want to check out The Custom of the Country, but it's probably not that big a deal. Also, first woman to win the Pulitzer.

A.E. Houseman, go!

British, poet, male, gay, classicist, pessimistic, nostalgic feel, patriotic. A Shropshire Lad is his famous collection.

I think that is all you need to know about Houseman, and like 90% more than I know (all I knew was his collection's title). I was just being mean. ;)

Uhhh... how about Emilio Zapata? Speaking of people about whom I know nothing.

Hey if a Houseman question comes up on the test I'll be glad you did.

Wasn't Zapata a Mexican revolutionary?

Fuck, who am I thinking of? Google is not helping.

I have no idea.

*cry*

well someone you don't know anyone about or the name of = hard to identify

I tried to use my subscription to LexisNexis and still couldn't figure it out. There IS a Spanish or Mexican author I'm thinking of whose name starts with Z. Dammit.

Novels, poetry, short stories?

Some well-known novel that I just can't remember the title of. I am now becoming convinced that it was mentioned as a favorite book of one of the characters in Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego (you identified the criminal by gathering clues on them), and I have actually gone to the trouble of downloading an emulator in the hopes of figuring it out. LAME.

But now I'm going to go do a couple of productive things and tend to my sick husband.

"Well-known" for values of "has stuck in my head, possibly erroneously."

haha well let me know if you remember.

EMILE FUCKING ZOLA. Who is, uh, French. And looking at his Wiki entry, I sincerely know nothing about him and will not blame you if you don't either.

I do not (luckily the GRE test of Literature in English actually mostly just cares about you know... Literature IN ENGLISH)

Googling tells me that he was a naturalist writer, liberal social activist, and wrote this huge series about a legacy of dysfunctionality in both an aristocratic family and it's illegitimate branch, he also accused the government of antisemitism during the "Dreyfus Affair"

Hey, hey, you were talking about Dostoevsky earlier! And I'm pretty sure he did not write in English. :-P

Yeah I know. But I happen to know about him. Also he is one of the foreign language writers more likely to come up on the test.

I probably should have mentioned that preferably it would be English/American writers... I thought I did in fact but clearly my phrasing was bad as I got requests for Camus and Dostoevsky.

well that's terribly wifely of you

Tell me about Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse.

Without spoiling To the Lighthouse.

Luckily as I haven't read it that was easy.

I've never actually read To the Lighthouse but some quick googling informs me that it is much like her other books.

Virginia Woolf was an English modernist writer. Her writing is mostly composed in the stream of consciousness style where plot is subservient to the characters observations and thoughts of the moment. Frankly her prose makes my eyes blur because it all seems to run together. In addition to novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own talking about the creative impulse of women and the way that they have been stifled throughout history. She argues that to be truly creative and live up to one's potential a women essentially needs financial independence.

Woolf herself was extremely emotionally unstable and her life is known for being somewhat scandalous.

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