[lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: nameless celebrities?
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:36:47 EST
<<**Eliot's _Middlemarch_ is at the top of my list -- even more satisfying
than _Pride and Prejudice_. Perhaps if you skip the chapter where you
are constantly stalled, you may be able to continue. First try took me
a couple of months to read it -- quite rewarding...>>
Curious. I find Middlemarch so much more ..... densely written than P & P.
There's so much that .... doesn't need to be said. Somehow the language
just drags me down, and I don't usually encounter that with Victorian Eng.
lit.
I will pick it up again at some point, though, I suppose. It's my fate to
continue to try to read it until I die...
<<**It's made the rounds of our entire family -- taking almost a full
month to abate. Hope you've better luck than we.>>
A hundred teachers in our city were out this week with it .....and countless
students. My husband, who does respiratory therapy, said everyone he saw
yesterday said they had a friend who had both strep and the flu and were ill
for weeks. What on odd thing! (Where's the CDC when you need them?) Glad
your family is finally well.
Julie Krueger
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JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> <> naming "that which has proved unreadable," the work they have owned
longer
> than any other unfinished book?>>
>
> Middlemarch. I've read War & Peace 20 times and can't get through
> Middlemarch. I can't get past chapter 13. I've tried.....dozens of
times. I finally
> just gave up and put it on the shelf to look good.
**Eliot's _Middlemarch_ is at the top of my list -- even more satisfying
than _Pride and Prejudice_. Perhaps if you skip the chapter where you
are constantly stalled, you may be able to continue. First try took me
a couple of months to read it -- quite rewarding...
> <<Good wishes to Julie.>>
> Danka. I'm on my way back to humanity, having woken ravenous rather than
> thoroughly nauseous this morning. However, to a righteously indignant
teen
> whose only shirt in the world she can wear is dirty. I think I'll go
back to
> being sick....
**It's made the rounds of our entire family -- taking almost a full
month to abate. Hope you've better luck than we.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
> Julie Krueger
>
>
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> celebrities? Date: 3/1/05 6:23:23 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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> on 2/28/05 5:44 PM, Robert Paul at robert.paul@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
>>David Ritchie wrote:
>>
>> The most famous nameless person, at least among British lawyers of a
>
> certain
>
>>age, is "the man on the Clapham omnibus." He surely deserves a novel of
>
> his
>
>>own even if it must be titled, "Diary of a Nobody."
>>
>>Professor Ritchie toys with us. He's waiting for some gullible
>>literalist to point out that this title is taken.
>>
>
> Two thoughtlets:
>
> 1) Is not the most famous nameless celebrity in the bible g-d?
>
> 2) "Diary of a Nobody" is on a list of books that I have owned a long
time
> but never finished. I wonder if august subscribers to this list would
enjoy
> naming "that which has proved unreadable," the work they have owned longer
> than any other unfinished book?
>
> Good wishes to Julie.
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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