I thought for this week’s entry I would like to explore and compare an extract from Wolfe with an extract from Thomas that I found interesting when we covered them in our tutorials. I just wanted to take them out of the context of the story that they are in and look at them side by side as short pieces of writing. I thought they were both ( Read more... )

Alright for this weeks journal I thought a bit of my own creative writing done in the spirit of a Wilfred Owen war poem but within a more contemporary context, hope you like it ( Read more... )

I was thinking after reading Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” what I really like about her writing style and here are a few thoughts: I like the way she uses her word choice. I like the way you get a real sense of character although she doesn’t need to describe them in great detail. Their personality comes across although she has an ( Read more... )

This was a coment I made on http://nancy-m.livejournal.com/ journal ( Read more... )

So my best entre between weeks 1 and 6 is: week 2 and the URL is http://jessekants.livejournal.com/7825.html

Okay, so I’m sitting here in the library and I’m thinking how I am going to write this journal entre in Virginia Wolfs Style and I ‘m feeling pressure like a blocked tap, as if the water is clogged and the whole tap begins to rattle and moan! Now I’m thinking about how I’m going to write the other entre that I want to do. Zzzzz. Now I’m awake again ( Read more... )

I wanted to say a little of how I feel about this science vs. art thang that has been doing the circles on some of the live journals since we read Conrad’s Preface to “The Nigger of Narcissus (http://elisriture.livejournal.com/ or http:// ( Read more... )

Okay so has any one seen the film “The Mission”, with the actor Jeremy Irons, It’s a great film with an amazing sound track and may have even won an Oscar, I’m not sure. But as I was reading “Heart of Darkness” I couldn’t stop thinking that the film would have had to have some of its ideas based on Conrad’s novella. I think the mission is set in ( Read more... )

I was reading the poem/song by Yeats “Down by the Salley Gardens” to my dad the other night, seeing what kind of reaction it would give him and was surprised and pleased when he said with astonishment that he had actually been listening to it lately on a CD that he had, and that he loved it and that it was sung by the contemporary Irish singer ( Read more... )

An extract from a letter written from Siegfried Sassoon to May Wedderburn Cannan in 1917 ( Read more... )