I mentioned the "Great Rascal" Ned Buntline {real name: Edward Zane Carroll Judson} on another thread. Trust me: no one (and I mean absolutely no one) in American literary history matches this trouble maker in so far as having an interesting life.
I mentioned the "Great Rascal" Ned Buntline {real name: Edward Zane Carroll Judson} on another thread. Trust me: no one (and I mean absolutely no one) in American literary history matches this trouble maker in so far as having an interesting life.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent
~ Isaac Asimov
Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Stephan Crane, D.H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
How About Lord Byron? Too cliché?
D.H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelly, The Brontes (all the sisters), Edith Wharton...geez....and so many more really....
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
but what is it that inspires us to query? my favorite writer- mr edgar allen poe-'s private life holds very little interest to me whereas i read all i canabout the beats and dylan. sometimes i am just reading the same things again in a different book. why is it that it is so selective?
''It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.''
- Allen Ginsberg
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
- Gustave Flaubert
I don't know about "sad" - yes, she didn't marry or have kids, which was the conventional "happy ending" for women at that time, but, unlike many women of her time, she had a loving and supportive family who didn't think it out of place that a woman should read and write - Jane was granted full access to her father's library, and the plays and novels she wrote as a girl were performed/read before her whole family. She enjoyed a close, warm relationship with her sister as well. I recommend Claire Tomalin's biography of her, it's a real page-turner (at least for bio buffs like me).Originally Posted by AdoreroDio
Oh, Woland! I live in Wisconsin and am never bored!From what I hear, WI isn't the most exciting place in the world, but I suppose being interesting (or not) is largely dependent on a person's frame of mind...
um history? out of his window?
''It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.''
- Allen Ginsberg
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
- Gustave Flaubert
I agree with your last statement here. But I never understood the need to call Wisconsin boring. I like it here.Oh, Woland! I live in Wisconsin and am never bored!I really don't see what is so bad about this place.
I don't care to make any enemies.
There are authors that I am interested in that happen to be from places that I don't think are too appealing (no, they are not my two main interests of Poe and Twain), but I still find the lives of these writers interesting.
Well, we have all of the things that you mentioned AND a major league baseball team!I know exactly what you mean. People say to me, "Oh, Ohio! Such an awful, boring place! What's in Ohio?" Plenty, really. And I'm a little southeast, so it's hilly, with lots of beautiful woods and farmland. It's really quite lovely. And in the city we have the touring cast of all the Broadway shows, the art gallery, the symphony, restaurants galore, the largest college campus in the US, the second largest Barnes and Noble in the world, etc., etc.
I've traveled so much, to every continent but Antarctica (and I don't want to go there). I can tell you, if someone dropped me down in the middle of Sacramento, California, I'd swear I was in Ohio. Even the farm country just outside of Milan, Italy looked just like Ohio.
I think every place has it charms. The only thing I'd change here is to make the climate a lot warmer.Anyway......
What I like is that since I live in the city I have access to all of the things that a city has to offer, but then we aren't that far from the country and farmland and quaint, little towns. I really enjoy that fact. I like that I can participate in all of the things that a city has to offer, and when I want to get away from city life, I can easily get to some of the smaller towns and countryside around here. I think the scenery is absolutely beautiful in Wisconsin. I always say that the reason I liked Missouri so much was because it was so green, and full of trees and lakes, that it reminded me of Wisconsin.
If there was one thing I would change, it would involve this city. I would appreciate a better clean-up job when it came to plowing the snow! That is my major complaint. Other than that, I am fine with things here.
That's one of the several reasons why I hate travelling, every place looks the same, and we all know that humans are generally the same. Now it's even worse; I'll think: Oh no, this looks like Ohio.
I've traveled so much, to every continent but Antarctica (and I don't want to go there). I can tell you, if someone dropped me down in the middle of Sacramento, California, I'd swear I was in Ohio. Even the farm country just outside of Milan, Italy looked just like Ohio.
I think every place has it charms. The only thing I'd change here is to make the climate a lot warmer.
Yeah I completely forgot to mentioned Brontes (Anne, Charlotte, Emily as well as the brother who helped them with works and could write with both hands equally well...what was his name...something like Branwell oh well), Sylvia Plath (really depressing) and D.H. Lawrence and Edgar Allan Poe. All added to my list now. Hope I haven't forgotten any now.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- After gaining success and notoriety as an author and intellectual in Kenya, Ngugi was imprisoned for his Marxist political beliefs. He wrote his novel "Devil on the Cross" while in prison under the Jomo Kenyatta dictatorship, writing it all on toilet paper and smuggling it out of the prison. After writing his first several books in English, he decided that neo-colonialism and globalization was threatening to destroy his native language. He decided that he would write only in Gikuyu.
I also find the lives of Kafka and Marquis de Sade interesting.
For me, Jaroslav Hašek and Thomas Chatterton both had particularly intriguing lives, although for completely different reasons.
Have you seen the BBC adaptation of his life? The BBC does portray him as having the affair with his sister; by the end of it the viewer is left thinking, "Wow, my family doesn't seem as screwed up now."
Anyways, I find C.S. Lewis to be an interesting character.
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