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[omegaxx]

I'm doing cartwheels and somersaults in front of my computer right now. Can you feel my excitement? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm a Chinese-Canadian premed/Englit student. I didn't really end up specializing for my degree, although I've taken half of my courses in 19th-century English lit and early 20th-century stuff with a solid dose of psychoanalysis. I'm also a kind of classical literature freak, especially when it comes to Homer.

Good day to ya all:p :p :p

[Jean-Baptiste]

Welcome to the forums, omega! I can certainly understand your excitement. I'm sure you'll get a kick out of this place. :D

[mir]

Hey, Omega - hope you have fun here! :D

[miss tenderness]

welcome Omega:)

[dramasnot6]

Welcome Omega! You sound like a very sophisticated and lovely person :D I have no doubt you will love it here :) Homer eh? You ought to meet Virgil then :p

[Niamh]

Welcome to the forum!

[omegaxx]

Thanks to everyone~~~ This place seems to be packed with brilliant and nice people. I hope to rub off some of that brilliance from you guys:p

[Virgil]

I'm doing cartwheels and somersaults in front of my computer right now. Can you feel my excitement? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm a Chinese-Canadian premed/Englit student. I didn't really end up specializing for my degree, although I've taken half of my courses in 19th-century English lit and early 20th-century stuff with a solid dose of psychoanalysis. I'm also a kind of classical literature freak, especially when it comes to Homer.

Good day to ya all:p :p :p

Welcome Omega. I think you've come to the right place. I'll forgive you on that psychoanalysis stuff :sick: but I share your interest in literature. ;) Which 19th and 20th C writers do you like?

[omegaxx]

Which 19th and 20th C writers do you like?

I still haven't read enough, but here are the ones that pop to mind:

George Eliot - Compared to her mind, we all have the brains of a goose.

Charles Dickens - Reading anything after reading his prose is like chewing sawdust after feasting on caviar. He can make words and sentences do acrobatics!

Oscar Wilde - His philosophy doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but then, it's more important to be beautiful than to be right.

Marcel Proust - I've only read the "Overture" to "In Search of Lost Time": a pathetic track record. However, how any human can write such a chapter has already become a mystery to me.

Sigmund Freud - You can kill me :sick: but I will still defend the brilliance and originality of "Three Essays on Sexuality". Feel free to bash up "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" though; Freud was clearly insane when writing that book.

William Faulkner - I worship "The Sound and the Fury", period.

Milan Kundera - He's the only post-modernist writer I "get" :(