just a wannabe

[conrad]

Think i had delusions of grandeur there for a while...writer, English teacher, academic.
Turns out I wasn't as sharp as I thought I was and a very lazy.
Poetry was always difficult for me.
And authors such as Patrick White and James Joyce, made me feel I was out of my league just trying to understand their novels.
But I did love reading classics such as Great Expectations, and Dosteo's Brothers karamazov. Didn't fully appreciate some of the more important motifs there but anyway. Grand Inquisitor for instance.

I like having those classics lining my bookshelf at home. Makes me look like a really tortured artist with unrealised potential. Am I being too hard on myself?
Hope this isn't my last post.:eek:

Just noticed the ratio of views to replies on Introductions is astoundlingly high. Like about 100 to 1?
Is the whole forum like that?

[E.A Rumfield]

Writing is nothing. If you can do it you should do it but I think all writers are just pushing their own sect of bull****. Nobody is right. Some religions you will identify with and some you will reject. Some say it more eloquently than others, some more complicated some more banal. For example I'm not fond of Joyce but I'll read the **** out of something by Miller or Celine. I don't get some people and surely some people don't get me just like with everything else in life. A good writer or poet says something we all have thought in an interesting way.

[Rainyhawaii]

Think i had delusions of grandeur there for a while...writer, English teacher, academic.
Turns out I wasn't as sharp as I thought I was and a very lazy.

I like having those classics lining my bookshelf at home. Makes me look like a really tortured artist with unrealised potential. Am I being too hard on myself?
Hope this isn't my last post.:eek:

I know exactly what you mean in those parts. I myself am very lazy except I am aiming a little higher in one part. Rather than teacher I'd like to be an English professor. I also recognise the desire to be a writer and an academic. :/ (Too bad I'm a sloth)

I bought a ton of classics and have to get through them all still. I don't have a bookshelf though So I have just under a dozen stacks of books sitting in my room.It really sucks when I knock one over, because then there's the domino effect and I have to clean it all back up. I'm trying to get through The Odessey at the moment and it's going painfully slow. I don't know why, but I'm just taking too long.

Anyway, I don't think you are being to hard on yourself. I really like that line in there "I like having those classics lining my bookshelf at home. Makes me look like a really tortured artist with unrealised potential." Know what you mean by that. ;)