Member of 3 honor societies, an English Honors program and will be reviewed for Phi Beta Kappa soon!!! A senior in college this year with published poetry and a publishable Emerson paper and a 60+ page political theory paper based on memory from Proust's Swans Way; plus currently working on my English honors thesis. Wicked...rock on me...
Straight 'A's this semester! *phew*
One of which was the Melville seminar, in which I was one of about...two undergraduates.
what project is that? hey our page count is almost the same, I've written 26 out of 60Originally Posted by Chava
24 pages out of the 60 page project...i am so tired of the labout market and everything that entails, foreign workers GO HOME! ARGH!
But, at least now it looks like i'll finish on timewe're meant for each other
Congratulations Witch, Chava, Jamesian, miljohns5, and kratsayra!
Umm what have I got to boast about? Well, my mid-year school exams are finally over, and none went too badly.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I posted more than 456 times! Woo hoo....
*craze sees the 8,000+ posts of pensive and sulks*
Congratulations, Kratsayra (feels like your dreaming, right?), Sleepy, Chava, miljohnj5, Jamesian (straight A's -- WOOT!), and smiles going to crazefest456!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
I've been awake for 42 of the last 48 hour to finish this project. It's due in just 6 hours, and it's finally beginning to look about right.
In about 3 hours i have to be at work ready for an 11 hour shift. Good God, I hope i make it, and i hope i will sleep well tonight, ready for the next shift, and the shift after that. Then it will be christmas. Maybe i will fall asleep before Santa arrives...
Congratulations to everyone on their accomplishments! But I wanted to highlight Jamesian:
Well, done!I would have loved to have taken a Melville seminar in college. I assume now you're an expert on Moby Dick.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
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edit: arg, this was supposed to go in the name Baki's puppy thread. dunno how it ended up here
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I know it pretty well, having written a somewhat lengthy paper on it (by undergrad standards - at a little under 16 pages, my longest to date for school); but really just well enough to know I have to read it again. It's an odd book...Congratulations to everyone on their accomplishments! But I wanted to highlight Jamesian:
Well, done!
One thing I can say definitively, however, is that I do not, under any circumstances, recommend Melville's novel Pierre.
4 & 13,
i defy thee.
1
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
Hahaha, I've never read it, but I've heard that before. Only other full length novel I've read is Typee, which was quite enjoyable. I guess Benito Cereno is almost a full length novel, and while it had literary merit I'm not sure it was that enjoyable. I love Melville's shorter works.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I got an A grade GCSE two years early and am also doing an A/S level in maths two years early...
I dont have much to brag about accept that, shame on me...
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
That's how I felt going into this course...and still is. We did BC and Bartleby (which I already knew from a previous course, and are what inclined me to enroll in the first place), plus Billy Budd, which is very good too. Typee was lots of fun, indeed, and I kind of want to read his other travel book Omoo now. Not for a while, though. White-Jacket is also good, though it's not exactly fictional (in a sense, neither is Typee); more of a rail against American naval usages - flogging and so forth - but it has some of my favorite passages. I guess altogether the class material amounted to about half of HM's output (no Confidence-Man, no Mardi or Redburn, no "Paradise of Bachelors", etc.), but it does have me thoroughly interested in his works now, so I'll probably be returning to him in the future (in works other than Moby-Dick, I mean).
i've been on vacation a bit more than a week and i haven't gained weight!!!
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