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Originally posted by mamaboy View Postpurple fashionFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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thanks for the help with poems. will use that one by phillip larkin so especially thanks for that one!
I just finished reading Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. Anyone read it? I found it quite weird and confusing although it did grow on me the last two parts.
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Originally posted by jompa View Postthanks for the help with poems. will use that one by phillip larkin so especially thanks for that one!
I just finished reading Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. Anyone read it? I found it quite weird and confusing although it did grow on me the last two parts.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View PostYes. What was weird about it?
what did you think of it?
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Originally posted by jompa View PostI think confusing was a more accurate term. I got quite lost in all the african sayings and ceremonies in the first half. Also the language to me seemed like quite a mish-mash of modern and ancient english. I liked it towards the end though but guess I expected more from it. perhaps i should read it again to understand better..
what did you think of it?Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Things Fall Apart was involved in one of my more embarrassing memories from college. First semester of Freshman year, and the one advanced class I was taking was called something like Studies in Afro-American Literature.
First day of class, the professor starts talking about one of the central themes of the class is the literature of abandonment, or something like that. I decide to butt in and prove that I belonged in the class by displaying my already-broad knowledge of African American literature, so I said "one good example of that literature - and I'm not sure if you're familiar with it - is a novel by a writer named Chinua Achebe named Things Fall Apart". A couple of people started snickering, and then two other people started laughing (imagine if you went into a History of Pop Music class and tried to impress someone by name-dropping the Beatles). I wanted to kill myself.
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LOL, that's pretty funny.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by mpcec View PostJust finished The Politics of Memory by Joanne Rappaport. Going to start Suttree by Cormac McCarthy tomorrow probably.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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what's the deal with everyone being so mccarthy crazy these last couple years? is it the effect of no country for old men the movie, or the road being featured on oprah and getting a massive ad campaign or ____?
what's most amazing to me is the breadth of his appeal. not only is everyone and their grandmother, getting/giving the road at holidays, but he's somehow also managed to become the new hunter s. thompson for millennium high schoolers (e.g., the comments by "endtroducing" upthread), and honestly I never saw it coming.
this is not to say it's a bad thing. on the contrary I'm genuinely glad for him, and would rather see his name on the best seller list than dan brown or janet evanovich any day. but that doesn't make it any less puzzling (the road ≠ the davinci code)
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