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geebusd

Literature entry week 9

Apr 28, 2009 15:39

These last couple of days have been pretty tumultuous. So many things have been happening, and I keep forgetting what day it is because I skipped uni on Monday (ooah, naughty me). One good thing is that I've discovered Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. It is exactly what I want to read right now in my life, being very excited about my trip next year ( Read more... )

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elisriture April 30 2009, 02:27:15 UTC

Oh my god Georgina, I LOVE your train trip narrative! It is just delightful in every way! I especially love how you met the challenge of trying to write about the changing light, it's always such a race to get something good on the page before it's changed, while your head was down, scribbling in your commonplace book. When I do it, I feel as if, while I'm recording the colours and mood that I've just seen, I'm missing other stuff that might have been better to record ( ... )

anissa_c May 1 2009, 05:16:44 UTC

Paris is that magical. Hemingway too. There is a walk around the left bank that you should do, of all the old writer's haunts. The list is so long, and I want to be all of them.

But what on earth is a commonplace book that everyone seems to be talking about???

geebusd May 3 2009, 11:45:35 UTC

Sounds awesome I'll look into it! Um the commonplace book is for the Shakespeare and the Renaissance unit, worth 10 % and I think MG's other classes as well now. Look in the unit outline for your course... that is, if you are a student at acu. For all we know you could be some random literary-stalker-killer! Haha..
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anissa_c May 4 2009, 06:45:20 UTC

Haven't you read my LJ? I'm not a random LJ stalker! I was an MG student for 3 years- did all the units except for 19th C (timetable clash). Now I've transferred down to Melbourne so no longer technically one of his students although I still read everyone's LJ and continue to write. The commonplace book is a new addition to the Literature classes I see. Is it like some kind of physical journal you are meant to keep?

geebusd May 4 2009, 07:33:47 UTC

oh lol! Sorry! I was kidding anyway. Yeah it's just a book that we are meant to carry around and put annotations and ideas in, things people say that sound profound, that kind of thing. A lot of famous writers used/use one, I think it's a mad idea. It's a tiny little mark, like 10%, but good habit for writers. The education students don't seem to like it much though, haha.

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