Swingin' on the Riviera one day, then laying in a Bombay alley next day

[bluehwys]

I spent all morning and most of the afternoon planting 98 Salvias (Victoria Blue) in the tulip bed, and I'm going to need at least one more flat still. It looks okay now, but only because all the tulip leaves haven't died back yet. Once they do there are going to be big gaps in the bed. I think I'll pick up another flat after work this upcoming

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[the_cur]

Classical Torture...I too keep picking up some of the, and I'll put this word in quotations, "classics?" Usually, I find them disappointing, but there are rare jems that actually apeal to me. I actually love Portrait of Dorian Grey, but then I have a thing for Oscar Wilde. (go figure) D.H. Lawrence and Henry James do end up annoying the ever loving stuffing out of me, but sometimes it's nice to force yourself through just so you can say "There I read it, so HEH! Take that you over-educated English Professor type twats!" :P

[bluehwys]

sometimes it's nice to force yourself through just so you can say "There I read it, so HEH! Take that you over-educated English Professor type twats!" :P

Which is pretty much 76.5% of my motivation for reading them, lol. Also, just being able to say "Yeah, I read that." has a lot to do with it, too. But so far, there hasn't been a "classic" that I've read that I haven't been all, "Eh, it was alright" about. I think a lot of it has to do with that old, old, old, old, old style of writing. It's very difficult to get through. At least for me, lol.

I've decided that later in the year I'm going to take another stab at Dorian Grey, and actually finish it. We'll see how that goes, lol.