I also think that the emphasis on physical love has spoilt the book for me a bit while reading but later on it has all come together. However, I still think it is like giving love a bad name.
I think the strength of this book is its beautiful narrative and style.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Still can't bring myself to pick it up again.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
This book doesn't seem to have the same "pizzazz" as The French Lieutenants woman, which is currently winning all my attention.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Is it possible to be 'unfaithful but not disloyal'? Any thoughts?But [Widow Nazaret] had the inclinations of an alleycat, which were more indomitable than the strength of her tenderness, and this meant that both of them were condemned to infidelity. Still [Widow Nazaret and Ariza] continued to be intermittent lovers for almost thirty years, thanks to their musketeers' motto: Unfaithful but not disloyal.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oh, so glad people like this book! I was scared to read it when I initially saw people's posts. The class it is for, the teacher doesn't exactly pick the most thrilling novels... We did read a novel called "Cabbagetown," that was pretty good. Other than that, it has been dull and complicated.Originally Posted by papayahed
"Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand."
sure I think so they are different things cant really explain it without longwinded soupopera type scenarios but yes I think its possible
Edit there I thought of an anology;
a unfaithful dog abadons its master for another and a disloyal dog turns against its master
so you can be bothort one or the other the question is which is worse? disloyalty or unfaithfulness?
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I returned the book to the library today, never had a desire to finish it though I gave myself several days.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Well Ive given up on it too, might try it again when Im in the mood for somthing that wierd and reading Isabelle allande's city of Beasts
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I have it sitting near my bed - maybe I'll return to it, not anytime soon especially when I have The French Leitenunts (sp?) Woman and someplace to be flying on my plate.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Halfway through, or so, I like it, mostly the way it's written.
I have a plan: attack!
Its gone! i returned it
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For those who have read the novel, I need some ideas for an assignment in Spanish class.
If you could put five - ten objects in a container that had some relation to the story, what would you put? Also the container has to relate to the novel in some way as well. Thanks.
-v.b.
have you read it?
how about a parrot? (not a live one of course)
Ok, from my point of view, please don't be offended. The man loved the youthful woman of his dreams, and never stopped loving her... His physical love was something that sustained others. I was slightly turned off by the old man loving a youth, but it was an omen that the woman of his dreams was coming to him. Then of course the beautiful ending, I hope that when I find my love, I raise a flag of cholera, and let no one interrupt it...
I still don't know why fewer people understand the immediate symbolism of this book.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am only offended that you didn't post in this thread earlier!Oh, now I am picturing big-bellied, bald guys chasing the teen working girls claiming that their affairs are all "symbolic" and that they are actually after the youthful women of their dreams!
Interstingly enough, as I was typing this, I am reminded of Lolita. Humbert also chases his teenage love, who dies at the age of 13, doesn't he?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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