Okay, I kid you not ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot more classical literature these days. It all started when my English teacher (large, blonde, witty) passed round these small tablet journals and someone from my class inquired after their purpose ( Read more... )

I want to slag off the person I had to work with for the last english homework - a character sheet on Stanley Kowalski. I can't believe she managed to try and pass of stuff from SPARKNOTES. Like hell ANY content copied and pasted from that site is not going to be notices. Everyfucking-body uses it... I've read it so often, I could practically ( Read more... )

Emma, in fact, is a novel about snobbery: the harmless though tiresome snobbery of Emma herself, the despicable snobbery of Mr Elton and his wife and Mrs Churchill, and the heroic, constructive snobbery of Mr Knightley and Miss Bates - the proper reverence for valid distinctions which Jane Austen saw as part of England's defences, just as much as ( Read more... )

Shit, I spent a WHOLE hour correcting ONE MEASLY paragraph in my coursework, nit-picking on my words, twiddling the phrasing... etc ( Read more... )

Well, it turns out I can only leave the last two days of my visit for seeing friends. During the rest of the two weeks, I have to spend it day-night studying and revising.
English Lit Unit 1/2? - 21/5 AM ( Read more... )

Just going to type up what I didn't take down in the lecture today ( Read more... )

The conventional main plot concerning Claudio and Hero 'with its simple pattern of courtship, betrayal and restoration is not merely artificial but also distastefully so' especially when juxtaposed with the subplot between Beatrice and Benedick ( Read more... )

I'm trying to revise Ode to Psyche but honestly, I have NO idea what it's about.
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung ( Read more... )

I'm starting to watch/read Kare Kano now... It's complete jokes! Which adds to this H-U-G-E list of stuff I'm not doing ( Read more... )