Lord Macbeth
10-24-2010, 05:01 AM
I've wondered this for, oh, the couple months I've been on the site... ;)
Why is everyone here, at online-literature.com?
Are most of the folks here, like me, an English Major, or an English teacher, or English Professor, with soime Theatre and Philosophy folks here as well?
Here for an online sort of "bookclub?"
An aspiring writer, or perhaps just someone who does it for fun?
Something else/
Just curious...what do you want to do, and why...and why are you here on online-literature.com?
(And yes, Lord Macbeth isn't just a Shakespeare fiend, he's also a Trekker, so that IS a reference to my favorite character, the greatest ship's navigator in history, Chekov from Captain Kirk's ship, the last member to join the crew in Season 2 of 3...his name IS a reference to Anton Chekhov...and yet they famously deviated from Mr. Chekhov's name, hence, Chekov; likewise, that's not a real Russian accent he uses, but a famously hammed-up one...favorite character for a number of reasons--both of us have ancestors from Russia, both of us are very proud of our heritage, one of his quirks being that he'd go on about how the Russians made everything great in the universe, and I'll go on and on about Russia, Shakespeare, and the Jews doing that a bit, as I AM proudly Jewish...I'd do the same thing in high school way back when, everything came from Shakespeare, Russia, or the Jews, and I'm just as white and the sort of "funny-nerd" type, and I even specialized in doing hammed-up accents in our plays, so my theatre friends ran with the Chekov thing...and now I've gone on forever about that, so sorry--but it DOES fit Mr. Chekov's profile, after all, Keptin.) :)
So, why am I here?
-I'm not declared as an English Major, as I'm at a community college, but I WILL declare that my major when I go to a real university in a year or so...
-I'm also EXTREMELY involved with Philosophy and Theatre, to the point where I'd LOVE to have them as majors as well, or minors...nearly all my friends are from my "drama family," as our High School Theatre dept. is one of the best in the region, and we all stay in contact...we ARE sort of like a drama version of the Crew of the Starship Enterprise, or King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
-My other great friend? Wel...we're friends because we bicker and argue so well (we MET as I had a heated argument with her in class and she threw the best punch I've ever seen...and, after being on the receiving end of that, she and I got to being friends, our teacher nicknamed us "Holmes" for me and "Watson" for her, as we argued so well to try and figure out English ideas, and we both loved House and Wislon from "House M.D.," so the the names stuck...she'll get married in a few years--the sentimental fool.) ;)
-My dream is to be a successful writer, either as a playwright, philosopher, or both; I'm writing a philosophical treatise right now, will try and refine it and someday publish it when my ideas have fully fermented and come of age.
-In addition, I suppose I wouldn;t mind being A Professor of Literature--but NOT at a comunity college, I want to focus on writing first, and then MAYBE teaching second, but ONLY folks who want to learn, I'm not keen on teaching at a community college and, like a lot of my professors in previous classes, putting up with non-English, Theatre, or Philosophy sstudents who don't want to be there.
-I seek the truth--whatever it may be:
"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life." -James T. Kirk
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Sherlock Holmes
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -Macbeth
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -Hamlet
;)
Why is everyone here, at online-literature.com?
Are most of the folks here, like me, an English Major, or an English teacher, or English Professor, with soime Theatre and Philosophy folks here as well?
Here for an online sort of "bookclub?"
An aspiring writer, or perhaps just someone who does it for fun?
Something else/
Just curious...what do you want to do, and why...and why are you here on online-literature.com?
(And yes, Lord Macbeth isn't just a Shakespeare fiend, he's also a Trekker, so that IS a reference to my favorite character, the greatest ship's navigator in history, Chekov from Captain Kirk's ship, the last member to join the crew in Season 2 of 3...his name IS a reference to Anton Chekhov...and yet they famously deviated from Mr. Chekhov's name, hence, Chekov; likewise, that's not a real Russian accent he uses, but a famously hammed-up one...favorite character for a number of reasons--both of us have ancestors from Russia, both of us are very proud of our heritage, one of his quirks being that he'd go on about how the Russians made everything great in the universe, and I'll go on and on about Russia, Shakespeare, and the Jews doing that a bit, as I AM proudly Jewish...I'd do the same thing in high school way back when, everything came from Shakespeare, Russia, or the Jews, and I'm just as white and the sort of "funny-nerd" type, and I even specialized in doing hammed-up accents in our plays, so my theatre friends ran with the Chekov thing...and now I've gone on forever about that, so sorry--but it DOES fit Mr. Chekov's profile, after all, Keptin.) :)
So, why am I here?
-I'm not declared as an English Major, as I'm at a community college, but I WILL declare that my major when I go to a real university in a year or so...
-I'm also EXTREMELY involved with Philosophy and Theatre, to the point where I'd LOVE to have them as majors as well, or minors...nearly all my friends are from my "drama family," as our High School Theatre dept. is one of the best in the region, and we all stay in contact...we ARE sort of like a drama version of the Crew of the Starship Enterprise, or King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.
-My other great friend? Wel...we're friends because we bicker and argue so well (we MET as I had a heated argument with her in class and she threw the best punch I've ever seen...and, after being on the receiving end of that, she and I got to being friends, our teacher nicknamed us "Holmes" for me and "Watson" for her, as we argued so well to try and figure out English ideas, and we both loved House and Wislon from "House M.D.," so the the names stuck...she'll get married in a few years--the sentimental fool.) ;)
-My dream is to be a successful writer, either as a playwright, philosopher, or both; I'm writing a philosophical treatise right now, will try and refine it and someday publish it when my ideas have fully fermented and come of age.
-In addition, I suppose I wouldn;t mind being A Professor of Literature--but NOT at a comunity college, I want to focus on writing first, and then MAYBE teaching second, but ONLY folks who want to learn, I'm not keen on teaching at a community college and, like a lot of my professors in previous classes, putting up with non-English, Theatre, or Philosophy sstudents who don't want to be there.
-I seek the truth--whatever it may be:
"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life." -James T. Kirk
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Sherlock Holmes
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -Macbeth
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -Hamlet
;)