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[bikutaseidaku]

School is over. I think I mentioned one before but my final papers were on: the influence of Aristotle and Horace on Gorbaduc, the first English tragedy, and tobacco pipe imagery in Moby-Dick. I KNOW! Awesome, right? right? anybody

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[severedwords]

I've been meaning to pick up The Sound and the Fury for some time now. I just haven't had many opportunities to read books other than the ones that are assigned. You would recommend it, though?

[bikutaseidaku]

So far, yes. I'm only 40 pages in but--I don't want to give anything away--it's a slow read but very good. Faulkner is very intentional with his poor language. It's very experimental, especially for the 20s/30s (I forget exactly when it was published).

I've been fortunate enough to read things of interest for my classes, notably Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and Moby-Dick; weird fucking books.

[inchoateguy]

Sound and the Fury is the one told from three different perspectives, right? The first part is all stream of consicousness with no paragraph breaks are periods barely, if I'm remember the right one.

I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird now thanks to you (you had talked it up a while ago..."a while" may have been months, though) and I'm loving it.

[bikutaseidaku]

Yeah, I just finished the first part and it's this super weird autistic stream of consicousness spliced in time.

Mockingbird is so perfectly bittersweet.