And, Happy last 1 Hour of Birthday, Claire.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
A Suggestion
I was just toddling about Wikipedia, and saw that Unbearable Lightness of Being is based partially on a belief by Nietzsche about eternal recurrence, and is just generally existentialist in theme. I can't remember what you guys were planning to read alongside Nietzsche, but maybe we should combine the two. I can always read P&P&S&S some other time. What say you both?
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I will consider it once I'm finally rested and at home. CANNOT WAIT. Love to all.
"toddling"?
I like it.
Impressive research, John! That sounds like a fine plan except for the fact that I'm not reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being... but you guys go for it!
P.S. Do we see how I am diligently capitalizing properly now? HAPPY NOW?
Yes! You're so civilized.
And I ripped 'toddle' from the first page of Middlemarch. I think we should all throw in random literary allusions to see if anyone notices. It could become a game. A really really fun game.
I'm severely vexed by that idea.
OH WAIT. I know you haven't read Pride and Prejudice, John.
I think you guys will be more well-read than I, so this literary allusion thing might not fly...
MAYBE WE SHOULD KEEP SCORE?
ah, please no.
OMG I REALLY SHOULD GO WORK BUT
This whole literary allusion thing is making me paranoid. I just looked at your old post, John, where you wrote "overly pedantic treatment". Every time I see the word "pedantic" I think of the back of the Penguin edition of Middlemarch where Casaubon is described as "pedantic". THIS IS WHAT THIS WHOLE SUGGESTION OF ALLUSION IS DOING TO ME.
Am I psycho?
I am going to go work, yes I am.
it's actually funny, I was rereading Lolita a week or so ago, and part way through I decided I couldn't enjoy it because I knew Nabokov was mocking me, the reader, the whole time, and it made me paranoid that I was constantly missing things. I recall JN saying something about this paranoia of discernment in his Emma lectures. Who knew Austen and Nabokov had this connection...
And we're definitely not more well-read than you, Dana; you are indeed damned to be one of us, girl. Enjoy Australia!
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