I could write about Beloved that is another book I have to read for classes. It's kindof dumb and very grotesque and somewhat pretenious. To be fair I do not like this vaque writing style where you are not sure what point in the story you are at. It is just jumping all over the place and all over time. I mean I can flippin read Dickens who jumps all over the place, but at least there is a definite story line going.
People have this mistaken notion that if I can not understand it, it must be intelluctual. That is not true. Sometimes things are hard to understand because they are nonesence. At the same time sometimes something is very intelluctial and one can not understand it because of the actual cleverness in the book. But at the very least through study and being read by smarter people then me, one can find a fairly definite meaning.
Basically what I am saying is that just because something is hard to understand does not make it 'deep' or clever. Vaque can be just a lack of thought or lack of communication skills. Complicated themes within a work will make it harder to understand but the easier it is to understand, even with the complicated themes, shows a definetly better writing style.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
well then
Well I ought to be doing many things including continuing work on my last paper for the Dickens class. This is a fun class, I have to say. I am now reading Our Mutual Friend, I like it if only for the reason that it is the only novel in this class that I had not read before or the ending was somehow ruined for me. That is the problem with classics. To many people know of them and have to in some way make sure you know the ending or some major plot point. One form of literature that is notorious for doing so is parody's. I despise parody's unless the person has something to say. It is easy enough to make fun of someones work. It is hard to point out the actual flaws in a work and show why they are flaws and at the same time be funny. That is the only type of parody that should be given any note. By my way of thinking.
Anyway Our Mutual Friend is interesting. Very confusing, but that is just Dickens and very long, which is also just Dickens. It is a mystery about greed (I know, how original), with murder (again, original), secret identities, (never saw that one coming) crippled people (okay that's new) and romance (blahhh....). So yes I am very excited to finish it and criticize it. Criticism is the more fun then reading anyway, well not quite. It depends on the book.
Anyway Our Mutual Friend is interesting. Very confusing, but that is just Dickens and very long, which is also just Dickens. It is a mystery about greed (I know, how original), with murder (again, original), secret identities, (never saw that one coming) crippled people (okay that's new) and romance (blahhh....). So yes I am very excited to finish it and criticize it. Criticism is the more fun then reading anyway, well not quite. It depends on the book.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sorry about not writing
Sorry about not writing in well pretty close to forever. I have just not had the energy to do so with taking so many credit hours and writing a novel and occasionally directing my sisters play. I even had to put world domination on a back boiler just so I could write this. Still not sure if it was a good trade off.
Since I am writing this anyway I might want to add that I think snow ought to stay in the winter and not bother us poor distracted souls in April (April showers seem to have turned evil on us killing May flowers, twisting the hearts of small children, and big ones, and in general being a blasted nuisance).
I am now going to write two long essay for the amusement and gratification of my teachers. I can not believe one can make money out of being sadistic, (knowing the papers most students write it probably comes closer to masochism).
On that singularly uninsightful note I must leave you. "Parting is such sweet sorrow"---sweet because you are reading this sorrowful because I have already endangered your sanity as it is.
Since I am writing this anyway I might want to add that I think snow ought to stay in the winter and not bother us poor distracted souls in April (April showers seem to have turned evil on us killing May flowers, twisting the hearts of small children, and big ones, and in general being a blasted nuisance).
I am now going to write two long essay for the amusement and gratification of my teachers. I can not believe one can make money out of being sadistic, (knowing the papers most students write it probably comes closer to masochism).
On that singularly uninsightful note I must leave you. "Parting is such sweet sorrow"---sweet because you are reading this sorrowful because I have already endangered your sanity as it is.
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