Journal: Summer Haze

[regulus_a_b]

I really must state the fact that I've been reading excessively this break. Nothing of literary merit, however, mostly a number of historical texts and class preparation books. Does anybody have any recommendations for me? I'm up for almost all genres of fiction, provided I know what the book may contain in a general sense before perusing it.

Comments

[howlsoftly]

Wilde. I think you'd probably enjoy some of his essays and pontifications more than his plays, though. And his poetry simply wouldn't suit you at all.

But if not Wilde, some of the Shakespearean "tragedies" are rather amusing, as Miss Holloway has suggested.

[regulus_a_b]

Poetry rarely suits me, something to do with how I think...

[howlsoftly]

Thus, his essays. Especially The Critic as an Artist... Or was it the other way around...? I've no head for titles.

[regulus_a_b]

Titles are usually irrelevant for a close read piece of text. I might prefer all books to be carefully untitled, actually.

[howlsoftly]

Titles are, however, conveniant for trying to actually talk about books, and distinguish them from one another without having to reread them each time.

[regulus_a_b]

I find characters easier to remember.

[howlsoftly]

But that doesn't work with nonfiction.

[regulus_a_b]

Oh, yes it does. Places, dates and characters.

[howlsoftly]

Not always. Like in essays.

[regulus_a_b]

Once I have the data from those, I hardly need reference or quote the text, unless, of course, I'm writing a derivative.

[howlsoftly]

Ah. But I enjoy discussing them, and without titles it would be awfully difficult to do so.

[regulus_a_b]

The concept should be an identifier in itself.

[howlsoftly]

But more than one person can write an essay any one concept.

[regulus_a_b]

Why would you refer to any duplicates?

[howlsoftly]

Because they might make different points supporting the same argument.

[regulus_a_b]

But then those points would differentiate the essays alone.