But the whole doesn't quite hang together as well as it could
I suspect part of the reason is he's no longer able to write the books, only to narrate and someone else writes it all down. It follows therefore that he's no longer able to self-edit. =(
I remember quite liking The Scarlet Letter, which I read for an English course; it was a college-level course I was taking despite being in high school, and I was ecstatic to be there. We spent an hour and a half minutely examining the first two paragraphs, dealing with the description of a rose bush next to the church door, and extrapolating symbolism to foreshadow all the rest of the novel just from those two paragraphs. At one point a fellow student looked up and said "You all realize this is in our heads and Hawthorne almost certainly didn't intend the meanings we're finding here, right?" and we all shushed him because we were having too much fun. Ahhh, English studies.
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Date: 2012-07-16 02:30 pm (UTC)I suspect part of the reason is he's no longer able to write the books, only to narrate and someone else writes it all down. It follows therefore that he's no longer able to self-edit. =(
I remember quite liking The Scarlet Letter, which I read for an English course; it was a college-level course I was taking despite being in high school, and I was ecstatic to be there. We spent an hour and a half minutely examining the first two paragraphs, dealing with the description of a rose bush next to the church door, and extrapolating symbolism to foreshadow all the rest of the novel just from those two paragraphs. At one point a fellow student looked up and said "You all realize this is in our heads and Hawthorne almost certainly didn't intend the meanings we're finding here, right?" and we all shushed him because we were having too much fun. Ahhh, English studies.