Hehe well maybe over the summer when I do not have such a reading load on me, I will begin reading over those stories. I am thinking of starting with the Horse Dealer's Daughter which Virgil mentioned, a while back, because it has the word horse in the title. LOL, I know great reason.
Hehe Goodnight.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The other story that we covered that those of you who missed the early ones might want to read is "The Prussian Officer." A very intense story.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
You don't remember? It was on the significance of the ghost. Here:http://www.online-literature.com/for...ghlight=hamlet.Originally Posted by Janine
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Hi, Everyone!I am justing now coming online. I was up way too late last night, as usual....
Hi Virgil,I did manage to re-read one of the stories - the one you suggested, when I showed you my list of stories, that I had read so far. I have read many of the stories by now; but I venture to say, they tend to all blend into a muddle for me, so I have to go back and review each one (really re-read the whole story again). That is the trouble with short stories, as opposed to novels. There are so many themes and so many plots, that they begin to run together, when you read so many at one time, especially late at night with one eye opened, one dropping shut, like me.
Virgil, now I do recall the debate about the ghost.Yes, I think finally we had to all finally say, 'let's give up the ghost!' - let's not
go back there again, ok? Keep the peace, instead.
Anyway, bottom line, I will post the story officially, but I can tell you all now - it will be 'The Witch A La Mode' (an early story in Vol. 1); I will now go hunting for the online text, for some of you who will need it. I am also looking up some background on the story and most likely will add a nice picture - that gives the page a nice touch and attracts other people to the thread. OK, so NO discussing just yet, until I officially announce the story, on it's own page, in a bold typestyle. I promise to accomplish all this by this evening, now that I have made up my mind, as to which story we should read. We probably won't discuss it until tomorrow or next day, so everyone has a chance to read it first.
Here is one link to the story at Project Gutenburg: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400311h.html#s13
The story text is not our Lit Net site, unfortuately; sorry about that. Hope you all can assess this first link.
Antiquarian, I can't read too well online, either. I try to print out the stories, when I don't have assess to them. I have sometimes reduced the point size of the font or the style or both and still been comfortable reading it when printed. This helps save pages and if you designate 'draft' printing and in color 'print in gray scale' this also conserves ink. You might already be aware of these tips.
That is a longer story, too...'The Prussian Officer' - that will take up a number of printed pages.
One of my favorite ones was 'The Shades of Spring' - that one is much shorter, and it is nice for this time of year.
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"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Well I have to say I am intrigued by the title of the story
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Antiquarian, I agree that the imagery was so beautiful and the story so elegantly written. I picked it for springtime. We did discuss this story quite extensively and I don't recall all that was said about it; there was some symbolism, that we finally came up with between all of our thinking the various key words and images and researching it. I would have to review to see exactly what they were now.
Yes, he was her old lover, presumed dead; but he was derranged from the war and did not know her, he probably was shell-shocked and lost his memory. Likewise she was in-shock, when she saw him; wouldn't you be? In the garden she did not let on that she knew him at all. She did confess all this later to her husband at home. No, the man was real and not a figment of her imagination. If he had been a figment he would have appeared to her as normal or as she had known him. She had loved him and apparently, believing he had died, she married the next guy who came along and perhaps truly did not love him with the same passion, as this former lover.Was the young man her supposed dead lover, or was she the one fantasizing? Now, I want to know!
Glad you could assess it. You can copy to your hard-drive now.Thanks for the link to the online text of "The Witch a la Mode."
Last edited by Janine; 04-25-2008 at 12:11 AM.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yes, DM...I knew you would be...
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
LOL, hopefully I will be able to fit it in this weekend with all my other reading.Yes, DM...I knew you would be...
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Is it a full moon this weekend? You might need a full moon to read this particular one
I thought we all could read it on the weekend, although I have read it twice already; I probably will read it again.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Perhaps we should have saved this one for Halloween.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Yes, not too much plot to that one, true. It is hard to pick the stories each month (some great stories are hard to follow up on with others that might not be quite as good); but I am still glad I picked that one for that month, since the flower garden was enough to make one enjoy reading it. I also did like the idea of 'what if one were to meet up years later with a lost love?' sort of element to the story. I will tell you a funny story, about that later on, in regard to my own personal experience.
There was a lot of significance in the roses and the colors of the roses, I believe. When she gazed out over the sea that also had some hidden meaning. I will have to go back one day soon and review our commentary on that story. Can you wait till then? Now you have me curious, also.
Yes, the prose was almost poetry I thought. I would read it again just to read that lovely prose and imagine those roses so lush.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Well as it turns out, my required reading for the weakend is pretty light, so it should not be difficult for me to get this one read.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Janine. Great choice!! This is my favourite of all the Lawrence stories I have read until now... I read it in a collection of short stories called "Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories" back in University, several years ago... and I loved it.. I actually quite enjoyed several of the stories from that collection.. as I think I have said before, I do enjoy his short works more so than his novels...
The White Peacock, I found in my grandparent's library several years ago...
The story wasn't in my collection, so this will be new to me. When does the discussion begin?
"Par instants je suis le Pauvre Navire
[...] Par instants je meurs la mort du Pecheur
[...] O mais! par instants"
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Sorry it was not in your collection. See I am getting you back, Quark!
Ok, so while all you have been posting, I have been offline and writing an introduction to the story. So without further ado.....I will be formally announcing the story in my next post, and adding my commentary and references I found on this early Lawrence work.
Oh, I am so glad, islandclimber. I suffered over which one to pick too long now. I read about 10 more stories in the process. Of course I like all the L stories so it was hard to choose just one. I thought I had that collection but I can't seem to find it. I do have enough collections as it is though. I own about 25 Lawrence books by now (of course many are bios and other commentaries). All I know is that they take up a lot of room!Janine. Great choice!! This is my favourite of all the Lawrence stories I have read until now... I read it in a collection of short stories called "Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories" back in University, several years ago... and I loved it.. I actually quite enjoyed several of the stories from that collection.. as I think I have said before, I do enjoy his short works more so than his novels...
That is great - you mean your grandfather read Lawrence? or was it your grandmother? My friend's father read a lot of Lawrence...and he even wrote his own commentary on his work; my friend keeps it to this day.The White Peacock, I found in my grandparent's library several years ago...
Virgil and DM, glad you can fit the reading in this weekend. No Virgil, it is not that 'witchy' to me....anyway, you were the one that suggested it when I showed you the list of all I have been reading/reviewing these past few weeks.
Last edited by Janine; 04-23-2008 at 11:05 PM.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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