ohhh dear god

[hammster]

I just located the comic book version of The Scarlet Letter that I began doing when I was in high school. It's... ...ohhhh.

In my defense I was sixteen and I really liked The Scarlet LetterIt is really hastily-drawn and Chillingworth just gets more and more wobbly and gnarled-looking until he basically becomes this... alarming amorphous blob with

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[ggmoonycrisco]

That... sounds fantastic.

Do you know what high school kids would do for a comic book version of The Scarlet Letter with silly illustrations? (answer: lots)

[ggmoonycrisco]

Incidentally I actually liked that book. I like Hawthorne all right.

[hammster]

I love him, he's so snotty about transcendentalism (which I also like, but.. snotty people). have you read his one about the poisonous garden-dwelling chick...? it's one of my favorites

I actually kinda want to publish silly comic book cliffs notes for a bunch of books that get used in American Lit?? how cool would that be! if only I had resources!!!

[ggmoonycrisco]

I loooove Rappaccini's Daughter!

Hammie, that is actually an excellent idea. Graphic novels are huge right now because they help with literacy, and if you could make them funny but essentially accurate? You'd totally have a market.

[augustbird]

oh my god i love you so much

[hammster]

someone's got to love me i guess

I AM SO GLAD I AMUSE YOU <3

[hammster]

god it's not good enough to bother scanning XD Really. everyone's basically one step up from stick figures! I do kind of want to redo/complete it now, though...

ff, I loved SO much of what we read in my lit classes. stuff normal people HATED, like grapes of wrath and catcher in the rye :'D idek why...

not the great gatsby though, fuck that shit.

[hammster]

yeah that is pretty much why I loathe the shit out of it

also none of the characters are at all likeable

also ALSO he actually uses the word "Jewess", barf. 8|

[toi_marguerite]

... that is kind of hilarious. xD

I really enjoyed The Scarlet Letter when I read it. I remember being quite shocked and pleased that it had two female characters at its center who were not wilting Angels of the House (god I love that essay by Woolf).

[scissorbite]

I heard someone criticise The Angel of the House and I came running

[toi_marguerite]

YOUR THOUGHTS

I think the original poem is cringe-worthily bad and Woolf's essay spot-on and hilariously wonderful. She takes the ideal and applies it to show how utterly ridiculous it is. I also just love the phrase, "she bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her". Yaaaaay Virginia Woolf!

[hammster]

I *LOVE* Pearl. This is probably just a symptom of my freakish attraction to any and all characters who totally embody some kind of meaningful and joyful chaos, but NONETHELESS. She's one of my favorite literary characters ever.

[hammster]

I am considering it