Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

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Welcome! (You wouldn't happen to know anything about The Faerie Queene, would you? XD) I am quite jealous of your location.

Feel free to stop by the Conspiracy Room at any time.

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Thanks.

Would you believe I haven't even read The Faerie Queene? I was pissed off that we didn't cover it in Brit Lit 1 (we did sonnets instead), but I never got around to reading it myself. I have at some point also read A View of the Present State of Ireland, but I don't have much to say about it.

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Well, I did manage to make it through high school without ever reading Jane Eyre, so I can understand how that might happen (though for you to get all the way through grad school without it is a bit o_O). We did sonnets too, but I think I skipped one of those days.

(I'm so totally not writing a paper about TFQ right now and desperately looking for someone who will understand me when I start ranting and raving about how Duessa's character is too complex to be covered in a ten page paper and how I need to limit myself and not get distracted by intruiging theological abstractions concerning the body of the Church vs. its leaders, and the idea that Duessa as a psychological person [though clearly she's meant to be more allegorical than physical] might have some sort of separation anxiety disorder that causes her to cling to the people who come into her life, as those people are constantly changing and she has no stability.)

(...focus, Jade, focus...)

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kilerkki.livejournal.com

Does it help that you've now made me want to read it?

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Oh, I'd definitely recommend it. I'm going to try to read the other six books this summer. Then again, I think half the reason this was so much fun was that I studied it in class, and so my prof was pointing out all the little subtleties--I don't know if I'd be able to rant about Duessa half as much if we hadn't talked about it in class.

but it's very good! it's very, very good. (it's no good sir! time's up! The ladies'll have to go now, sir.)

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Well I'm not all the way through grad school yet, so there's still hope. But once undergrad is done you tend to specialize a lot more. I've pretty much been focused on the 19th Century Anglo-Irish Lit and Drama and begrudgingly reading 20C stuff as well. Now the thing that's getting me right now is that I'm almost certain that most of the undergrads where I am now are getting English degrees without ever having read Paradise Lost. It's not that I particularly like it, it's just that it influences so many other authors that not having read it leaves a great gaping hole in one's ability to understand lots of connections.

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Oooooh...that sounds like fun. What're you planning to do once you get your degree?

Haha, I just finished my last day of classes, and my English class ended the past three classes with Paradise Lost. I agree with what you said (I wouldn't like it half so much if I didn't have such an amusing professor--his summaries of Adam and Eve's exchanges were hilarious) about that--I cringe to think of everything I have to go back and reread, now that I've read that and The Faerie Queene, so that I can get all the references.

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avian-xj.livejournal.com

welcome!

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cheers!

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ladyofastolat.livejournal.com

We're supposed to to an intro. post? *guilty look*. I just launched straight in.

I, too, have a very blurry image of Gen, but a clearer image of the other characters. I suppose this is because the first book is narrated by Gen in the first person, so he's the only character who doesn't get a physical description. However, come to think of it, I often have a rather hazy mental image of my favourite characters, but a much clearer image of the more minor ones. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because it matters more with the ones I love.

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You don't have to do an intro post!!! Welcome!

I didn't

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Hi from another usual lurker! Totally OT, but given where you're studying, we probably have some people in common. (And not the ones to whom you passed around the MWT books - assuming that was in California!)

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Probably. It's one of those continual culture shock things for me how small-townish the connections are here. It's not six degrees of separation, it's two (if that)! Considering your name, we definitely have similar loves. :) I'm slowly passing around MWT here as well, but only to people very close to me.

Love the Newgrange icon, BTW.

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Anglo-Irish lit! That's crazy talk! I have just barely survived two terms of Anglo-Saxon. I finished my last essay last night, and proceeded to dream that I was a viking queen, experiencing an accurate last third of Beowulf fighting the dragon, although Wiglaf actually saved my life.

But yeah... welcome to Sounis. I lurk here. ^_^

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Well, one of nice things about Anglo-Irish lit is that unless you're talking about Finnegan's Wake, you generally don't get too much more removed from "standard" modern English than attempts to represent the rhythms and idioms of Hiberno-English (http://www.hiberno-english.com/).

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Oh. Nothing like translating Beowulf from scratch then. ^_^;

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Welcome! This is a crazy place but all the people here are really nice, and sometimes we actually have reasoned discussion about the books... the rest of the time it's just chaos. But if you've been lurking I'm sure you know that. :D

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Welcome Kee! Ulp, yes, the procrastination-insanity-past bedtime story sounds soooo familiar. Thanks for the intro (Um, I just delurked. Are we supposed to do intro posts? They're so sweet.)

Sean Connery? Hey. I was thinking Ian McKellen.

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Welcome! I wonder if dear Avian might find a photo of a 45-ish Sean Connery and make us a Magus icon...

Don't worry about not doing an introductory post, anyone. I still haven't done one. :)

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Don't worry about not doing an introductory post, anyone. I still haven't done one.

But you're a BNF so you don't have to

: )

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peggy scores.

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Oh sure, jump right in and twit me with that again. ~~Don't you have a book to write or something?~~ Peggy - have you no animals that need to be released into the wild? I believe I hear them calling.

grrr.

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Hey, at least she didn't bring up the riding crop comment. ~~Has mwt heard that? I wonder if she'd be curious~~....*reprobatish*...........

:PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

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Good God, Emerald, surely everyone in the universe has heard it by now. Numerous times.

:P yourself

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Though we've already agreed that the riding crop joke isn't getting stale (*'sorry Checkers'she says unrepentantly*), it occurs to me that we should find something new to, er, gently prod at Checkers with.

*watches closely for any foot-in-moments, sweeping her own under the rug for the time being*

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Well, not to worry. It's only a matter of time, ~~Seabiscuit.~~

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~~Oh, I see. That's how you want it, huh? Well Checkers, I'll be watching you veery closely.~~

*draws a little line and waits for Checkers to cross it*

:D

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*crosses line* so there :P nyah

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(How're you finding Crown and Court Duel, by the way? I've been meaning to ask. I have to say - I think that I much preferred Court Duel.)

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I've just barely begun Court Duel, so I'll read that one before I report back.

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willow-41z.livejournal.com

*tries to restrain chokes of laughter at the following comments*

Well, I didn't do an intro post, either, and I can't be a BNF-- I'm stealthy.

Though, er, it occurs to me that I could be considerably more stealthy if I stopped blathering about goats, underwear, zucchini, and other odd things.

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avian-xj.livejournal.com

Checkers, you are lucky i even saw this! stick icons on my lj *swings arms around in a traffic sign kinda way* or i'll never see them. that and a banner of Gen with "I CAN READ WHATEVER I WANT" will be a good thursday project for me :)

um... the first picture that comes up under his name on google is... uh... frightening

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Yes, I linked to it below. I'm not even sure if that really IS Sean Connery. but who cares?

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Welcome to our little circus. We're all insane and procrastinators here, mostly at the same time!

Oooh, another Magus candidate. Someone make Checkers an icon!

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How about this (http://marksimpson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/universe_3rd.jpg) one? Just kidding!

This (http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=66150&rendTypeId=4) one?

Oh look, it's the Magus and Gen. (http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/Films/NameOTRose.jpg)

Ok, lunch is over. Back to work, really.

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LOL. Ogler.

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1) I usually don't prefer Sean Connery in his younger days, but uh...*wanders off to perform official court duties*
2) *switches gaze and continues performing duties*
3) GAH ONE OF THESE DAYS i.e. this summer I will read that book and then watch the movie. I think it's more Sophos than Gen, though. XD

Sure, "work." (I dunno, it takes a lot of effort to ogle that first picture without being too terribly noticable... :-b)

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Yes. it is more like Sophos!

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A teacher came up when I was posting the picture and said, "Whaaa...blinks...tttareYOUdoing?" :D

Yes, more like Sophos, I think.

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LOL!

Also, I am jealous that you got your hands on the Crown/Court Duel books. I myself have been able to locate them as of right now. le sigh.

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Actually, I was surprised that a public library system as big as mine only had one copy of each. I had to have them sent to my branch, which almost ALWAYS has what I want.

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*unable, not able.

My library system back home is notoriously bad with series, but I don't think they had either book, which was alarming.

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Sean Connery wouldn't make a bad Magus actually. I agree - the third one's more Sophos.

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