a real update, possibly
1. I dreamt twice last night that I was Aang in the very first episode of Avatar. Trapped in an iceberg, like a fetus in his mother's womb, I waited patiently for Katara and Sokka to break me free. However, their presence was soon eclipsed by a very menacing General Zhao, who firebended me from the iceberg. As I plunged into the icy water below, I could somehow smell the scent of my burning flesh.
2. I like Jane Eyre more now that she teases Mr. Rochester.
"You may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I'll keep you from the edge of the gulf, too."
And the scene in the carriage! ♥ Jane Eyre is so contrary, I love it. "I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio--gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all," indeed.
If the book were perhaps not written from Jane's plain perspective, I would like her almost as much I do Estella, whose emasculation of Pip makes me hero worship her dearly.
3. Lifting these passages from my copy of the text for my own referential purposes, for the excerpts are worth noting.
But wide as pathless was the space
That lay our lives between,
And dangerous as the foamy race
Of ocean-surges green.
And Jane, describing the discrepancy that exists between her imagination and the incarnation she creates:
...but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.
"And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?"
"Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realize."
"Not quite: you have secured the shadow of your thought; but no more, probably."
4. I should like to read enough so that I'll be able to finish the book on my plane flight back to New York on Sunday. I've slacked off on my personal reading for quite some time. Last year I failed at my self-imposed 25bookchallenge because I really wasn't that interested in The Chronicles of Narnia. I finished Prince Caspian before the deadline, 09 June 2008, completing 16/25 books (64 percent of my goal).
After that I believe I read Life of Pi, which was beautifully sublime, but confusing, and then then nearly finished all of the Twilight series before I said, "Fuck Breaking Dawn. WTF is this shit?"
In any case, I should like to finish the latter half of Breaking Dawn after Jane Eyre and, idk, some books of intriguing movies I've seen, such as Perfume and so on, but I won't be making a repeat performance of the 25bookchallenge this year because I am determinedly Taking It Easy.
2. I like Jane Eyre more now that she teases Mr. Rochester.
"You may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I'll keep you from the edge of the gulf, too."
And the scene in the carriage! ♥ Jane Eyre is so contrary, I love it. "I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio--gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all," indeed.
If the book were perhaps not written from Jane's plain perspective, I would like her almost as much I do Estella, whose emasculation of Pip makes me hero worship her dearly.
3. Lifting these passages from my copy of the text for my own referential purposes, for the excerpts are worth noting.
But wide as pathless was the space
That lay our lives between,
And dangerous as the foamy race
Of ocean-surges green.
And Jane, describing the discrepancy that exists between her imagination and the incarnation she creates:
...but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.
"And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?"
"Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realize."
"Not quite: you have secured the shadow of your thought; but no more, probably."
4. I should like to read enough so that I'll be able to finish the book on my plane flight back to New York on Sunday. I've slacked off on my personal reading for quite some time. Last year I failed at my self-imposed 25bookchallenge because I really wasn't that interested in The Chronicles of Narnia. I finished Prince Caspian before the deadline, 09 June 2008, completing 16/25 books (64 percent of my goal).
After that I believe I read Life of Pi, which was beautifully sublime, but confusing, and then then nearly finished all of the Twilight series before I said, "Fuck Breaking Dawn. WTF is this shit?"
In any case, I should like to finish the latter half of Breaking Dawn after Jane Eyre and, idk, some books of intriguing movies I've seen, such as Perfume and so on, but I won't be making a repeat performance of the 25bookchallenge this year because I am determinedly Taking It Easy.