FRANK: (Rising) Mrs. Warren, I cannot give my Vivie up even for your sake.
-"Mrs. Warren's Profession" from "'Man and Superman' and Three Other Plays" by George Bernard Shaw
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FRANK: (Rising) Mrs. Warren, I cannot give my Vivie up even for your sake.
-"Mrs. Warren's Profession" from "'Man and Superman' and Three Other Plays" by George Bernard Shaw
As someone who's at this very second enjoying a recording of a reading of Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"...
That breaks my heart! :O
No Shakespeare touches these kids? No Dante, Milton,...
A is for Aristotle (Aquinas and Augustine come close, as do Austen and fellow Greek Aristophanes, but Plato’s Pupil wins out)
B is for the Bronte Sisters (cheating, but Charlotte, Emily, and Anne...
Sorry I've been away so long, I was banished for chopping off...
I mean, classes have started again and taking four English courses, reading more on my own time, looking for a job, tutoring,...
Some nominations to start:
Team "American South":
Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Novelist: Mark Twain
Others: William Faulkner, OPEN (Who? T.S. Eliot, I think, belongs...
A while back a few of us, from a few previous "Author Showdowns" had the idea to have a battle Royale for American writers from the South, North, Midwest, West, etc., wherein we would choose a team...
OK, so if no one objects, I'll try that Electory idea, so look out tomorrow for that, the Top 20 on this list, 5 choices per person from that crop, and let's see if we can't work this (and have some...
True, but he might throw those who dare not vote for him into the Eleventh Circle! ;)
Hey, 200th post--and on a post concerning damnation, no less...IS THIS A DAGGER I SEE BEFORE ME?!
No.
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Alright--who would you suggest? We were planning tha big America Writer showdown, with the South, North, Midwest, and West going at it...
Four each--atl least one poet and one novelist each, and...
And anyway, I'm not prepared to give up yet...
Take the Top 20 here, start tomorrow with an Electory Ballot like I tired, and let's at least try that before abandoning the idea altogether, since I...
I fail to see why the two are mutually exclusive...?
We can do BOTH!
(And in any case, you're being a bit unrealistic in your high-mindedness, Alexander III--the Baseball HOF, the Football HOF,...
It was just my opinion, YEESH...
Well, I gave my plan, with the Preliminary and the Electory, and the former just requires the Top 20, and then the latter the 75%--since out of a field of only 20...
I'm an English major--a year away from my AA...
There's a core of six or eight or so of us on campus that took the same classes starting out together, now seeing each other every day as we're...
(If we DO go that route, I'll take the Top 20 after tomorrow and come Monday we'll begin the Electory Ballot.)
I agree that Alexander III maybe overstepped a bit in saying that LitNet's population is not, on the whole, well-read--I've so far found most to be at least what I would myself consider reasonably...
OK...I'm starting to wonder:
Is 75% a good idea?
I hate to lower the standards here, but really--WHY do Homer and Dante lead with ONLY 13/27? Don't get me wrong, they should be the next ones...
Wow, Homer, Dante, and Dostoyevsky each only have 50%, and Tolstoy has 40%.
Can an author NOT named "William Shakespeare" finally break that 75% mark and stay there?
My votes above:
Homer
Dante
George Bernard Shaw
T.S. Eliot
Mark Twain
Sophocles
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edgar Allan Poe
Well, Shakespeare was our lone inductee for the inagural January ballot, maybe fittingly...
But hopefully this time a few will get over that lofty 75% mark to punch theirn ticket to the OLN Hall...
Both of them are already on the ballot.
Contrary to what you've been told--yes, you can name playwrights. :)
Of course, the play shoudl probably have literary merit...so the Tom Stoppards and Samuel Becketts and Athur Millers? Yes.
...
Since I nominated BECKETT and SHAKESPEARE made the Hall...
How do you say that?
Homer
Dante
T.S. Eliot
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemmingway
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Sophocles
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
Homer
Dante
T.S. Eliot
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemmingway
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Sophocles
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
I nominate:
Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett