various friday
Well, it can safely be said I've had a very relaxing day. I managed to get a great deal of my reading done. Rather, all my reading for Monday, which means that I only have a paper to write, and basically my weekend homework will be complete - wild success for my first weekend back at school.
I read "Diamond as Big as the Ritz" today, another fabulous Fitzgerald short story. It was unusually fantastical, and I was rather impressed with it. It was probably the highlight of short stories I've read with revealling descriptions. There would be words, slyly inserted into paragraphs describing the Washington's Diamond valley which left the creeping feeling of the turns the narrative would undoubtably take.
Also, there was a particularly stellar quote in "Winter Dreams"
"I'm awfully tired of everything, darling." She called everyone darling, endowing the endearment with careless, individual comraderie. "I wish you'd marry me."
The directness of this confused him. He should have told her now that he was going to marry another girl, but he could not tell her. He could as easily have sworn that he had never loved her.
"I think we'd get along," she continued, on the same note, "unless probably you've forgotten me and fallen in love with another girl." [231]
It seemed particularly entertaining and applicable after I had written myself a note of dialog as I was getting ready for bed last night, I was imagining some profound and romantic 'saying goodnight' ritual [as I am prone to do] and I concieved of exactlt the kind of character I would like to have in those sorts of situations. So here goes [it's a dialog between a boy and a girl...indicated by b, or g]
g "No, I can't promise I'll see you tomorrow."
b "Why not?"
g "Well...perchance I should expire in my sleep! Then I shant be able to see you at all. Though, you may be able to see me, under whatever ill-begot circumstances. But, all in all - I will have lied to you, and indeed, broken my promise...and I think I would feel very poorly for it."
b "Poorly? Even from beyond the grave?"
g "From past the painted veil, yes."
Well, it can safely be said I've had a very relaxing day. I managed to get a great deal of my reading done. Rather, all my reading for Monday, which means that I only have a paper to write, and basically my weekend homework will be complete - wild success for my first weekend back at school.
I read "Diamond as Big as the Ritz" today, another fabulous Fitzgerald short story. It was unusually fantastical, and I was rather impressed with it. It was probably the highlight of short stories I've read with revealling descriptions. There would be words, slyly inserted into paragraphs describing the Washington's Diamond valley which left the creeping feeling of the turns the narrative would undoubtably take.
Also, there was a particularly stellar quote in "Winter Dreams"
"I'm awfully tired of everything, darling." She called everyone darling, endowing the endearment with careless, individual comraderie. "I wish you'd marry me."
The directness of this confused him. He should have told her now that he was going to marry another girl, but he could not tell her. He could as easily have sworn that he had never loved her.
"I think we'd get along," she continued, on the same note, "unless probably you've forgotten me and fallen in love with another girl." [231]
It seemed particularly entertaining and applicable after I had written myself a note of dialog as I was getting ready for bed last night, I was imagining some profound and romantic 'saying goodnight' ritual [as I am prone to do] and I concieved of exactlt the kind of character I would like to have in those sorts of situations. So here goes [it's a dialog between a boy and a girl...indicated by b, or g]
g "No, I can't promise I'll see you tomorrow."
b "Why not?"
g "Well...perchance I should expire in my sleep! Then I shant be able to see you at all. Though, you may be able to see me, under whatever ill-begot circumstances. But, all in all - I will have lied to you, and indeed, broken my promise...and I think I would feel very poorly for it."
b "Poorly? Even from beyond the grave?"
g "From past the painted veil, yes."