felis_ultharus | (no subject)

Sorry for being dead to LJ the last ten days or so -- I've been quite busy.

My list came in for the English Literature comprehensives. I have about a hundred works to read or re-read before September 8. Some of these "texts" are short as sonnets, others are novels hundreds and hundreds of pages long.

I've been reading Everyman today, a late-medieval morality play. It actually calls itself a "Moralitee Playe" right on the first page -- it's funny to see that announced as anything other than a joke.

(There's a scene in it where Everyman is having a conversation with his worldy possessions, especially his gold. How do you stage that? I picture a talking treasure chest.)

The summer storm we had on Thursday was the best ever -- I've never seen lightning like that. We lost power for seven hours, but it wasn't so bad, and lucky

montrealais loaned m his cellphone sho I had an alarm clock for work early the next day. The power came on just as I was leaving the house.

And editting continues, at least when we've had electricity :)

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welcome back :-)

Thank you ^_^

I think I read Everyman in my last BritLit class. I get mixed up with that medieval stuff.

Ever read "The Wanderer"? The prof really got off on one line, "winter-sad," and I kept bringing it up in class long after we had finished it. She thought I was being insightful; I was in fact poking fun at her.

I don't know that one. Wiki-ing it, I notice it's one of the Anglo-Saxon works in the Exeter Book that included The Seafarer. I do like The Seafarer.

I like some medieval stuff. Chaucer is very atypical -- the Wife of Bath's prologue is almost frightening in its modern attitudes. I like Dante, too. Petrarch gets tedious after awhile.

But I don't think I could stomach more than one "Moralitee Playe" ;)