Janine, we should make list of the short stories we have already read. I can help you when I get back home. And perhaps we can choose another.
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Janine, we should make list of the short stories we have already read. I can help you when I get back home. And perhaps we can choose another.
I love Lawrence, too, Virgil, so whatever you discuss, I'll be happy to join the discussion.
Glad to see you here, too MissScarlett. If you review the last page, I spoke to Emmy, another newcomer to the thread. I am hoping my friend, Lynne50 can join in here, also. Virgil, I knew if I mentioned your name you would show up. You picked last time, so I was going to pick something by the weekend and post the introductory page, if that is ok with you. Is it too late to do "Wintery Peacock"? It is such an interesting story and amusing, too.:D If not, I will look further for a more spring-like theme, but I think we did the best spring ones so far. Let me know what you think. I want to do a short one this time. I can't commit to a long one, because I am in too many discussions this month already: "Richard II", "The Awakening", and maybe another Ibsen play, who knows; but three things will keep me hopping. Better forgo the Ibsen play till next month.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
Do you think Quark and Dark Muse will participate, too?
Edit: just looked for "Wintery Peacock" online with no success; I guess it's back to the old drawing board. I will review other story possibilities in the next few days.
I think Wintry Peacock is a great idea.
Oh good, you just made my life a lot easier. Thanks, Virgil :) I did find it online at Guttenberg, Australia site. I will post the link once I officially announce it. They pretty much have all the Lawrence short story texts and the plays as well, not to mention the novels and the poems. I had this inclination to pick WP, even if it is now getting spring-like out and we are all in a spring mood. I am determined to discuss this story and we keep missing it year after year. I will officially announce it by Sunday. I have to look for a picture and also write a short introduction to the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Can we still wait a couple of weeks Janine? I'm bogged down right now with a bunch of books.
Virgil, sorry, but not really; we have anxious new participants and they will lose interest a few weeks from now and be into something else. I will go slowly posting hunks of text (promise) and I am sure you can catch up eventually. This isn't a very long story. You can read it pretty quickly; maybe on your plane ride home (that is, if you are flying). I have read it about 2 or 3 times, so far, myself. Come on now; this is an easy one. It is a lot easier than discussing Richard II.;) If you can't participate this month don't worry about it. You said to go ahead in Shakespeare. I want to go ahead with this for this month, since we have had this thread 'on hold' way too long. It got lost 4 pages back in the listings; I had to go hunting it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I think Wintry Peacock sounds good too. I don't think I've read it so I'm excited to get into it. Glad to hear that Guttenburg has it.
If Virgil wants to wait a few weeks I don't mind. I've got a two week camping trip in Tasmania which I leave for this coming Easter Sunday so I will have limited internet access then!
Oh good Emmy, how about we do this then, since you and Virgil want to start 2 weeks from now. Lynne50 is going away too so it probably would be more feasible for her to wait as well. I will officially post the next story with a little write up and a nice picture tonight or tomorrow. Then we will all read it and maybe even re-read it and then we can start a few weeks from now; so this will allow you all extra time to be able to post your comments. We will take the story slowly and I will post parts as we go along, so we all can have a chance to comment on the specific text and symbolism. Now, reading ahead, will help us organise our thoughts and then we can actually tackle the text when we start a few weeks from now. If the discussion runs over the month's end, that will be fine. We can choose another shorter short story for next month, also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emmy Castrol
Yes, isn't Project Guttenburg the greatest? I would suggest all of you to copy out the text of the story, while it is still available. I have it copied already to my own document file.
Virgil, what do you think? I can let Quark and Dark Muse know, too.
Sounds good to me. :)
That sounds good to me.
I can wait, too. I'm reading The Awakening and collecting my thoughts on "Richard II," and I have plenty of "real life" work to do, too, so waiting a few weeks doesn't bother me. I'm just glad we can find the story online.
Scarlett - I believe you can find all of DH Lawrence's work here: http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/lawren...l#shortstories. Or at least a large part.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissScarlett
How funny, Virgil; You beat me to the draw. I just went to get that link; it's identical to yours, see:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/lawren...l#shortstories
I had to hunt around the site for it since one place the short stories in limited to about 8. This other page has all of them. I think "Wintery Peacock" is in about the 3rd or 4th collection down.
Edit: if you go to this page there are various ways to download the file or copy the text. I tried the second HTML (zip) download and it worked perfectly.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22477
Our next short story will be:
Wintry Peacock
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...yPeacock-3.jpg
Literary connection
Two entries from Wikipedia
In late 1917, after constant harassment by the military authorities, Lawrence was forced to leave Cornwall at three days' notice under the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). This persecution was later described in an autobiographical chapter of his Australian novel Kangaroo, published in 1923. He spent some months in early 1918 in the small, rural village of Hermitage near Newbury, Berkshire. He then lived for just under a year (mid-1918 to early 1919) at Mountain Cottage, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, where he wrote one of his most poetic short stories, The Wintry Peacock. Until 1919 he was compelled by poverty to shift from address to address and barely survived a severe attack of influenza.
One of D. H. Lawrence's houses (Mountain Cottage), in which he lived
with Frieda in 1918-19, stands below the B5023 road on the outskirts of
Middleton-by-Wirksworth, approximately 1.5 mile NW of Wirksworth. Lawrence also reputedly spent a lot of time at Woodland Cottage on the opposite side of New Road. While staying in Middleton in the bitter winter of 1918-19, Lawrence wrote the short story A Wintry Peacock (published 1921).
Note: We will start this discussing this story 2 weeks from today. You can all start reading it; maybe jot down some notes or underline in your text. (see previous posts for links to the online text); but please, hold off posting, until all are gathered back here, in 2 weeks time. Thanks! I think you will all enjoy the irony and pastoral, poetic writing in this story. I found it very amusing. As they say "lost in translation.". You will know what I mean after reading this story.