Another day, another hope!
My next exam is on tuesday so wish me luck for that!
I just spent a frustrating half an hour trying to sign up to aim since that is what every one here uses. I wanted to have the nick verystrange but sadly that was already taken!
oh well so after trying out a million other things I was finally able to sign up.
Otherwise nothing much has happened really.
I watched rocky horror show on dvd last night. I had forgotten how funny it was! I really enjoyed it, the music is strangely good as well, its very easy listening.
ciao
My next exam is on tuesday so wish me luck for that!
I just spent a frustrating half an hour trying to sign up to aim since that is what every one here uses. I wanted to have the nick verystrange but sadly that was already taken!
oh well so after trying out a million other things I was finally able to sign up.
Otherwise nothing much has happened really.
I watched rocky horror show on dvd last night. I had forgotten how funny it was! I really enjoyed it, the music is strangely good as well, its very easy listening.
ciao
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(a frightening thought, however: how did you manage to FORGET how funny was Rocky horror? I hope you've had your memory well trained since you saw it first, and you don't forget anymore things like that!))
I can fully relate with your lack in interest for Kipling: I had exactly the same misadventure with Alfred Dblin: after having Berlin Alexanderplatz dissected in German litterature class I couldn't event think of rereading it for pleasure.
For Kipling it was entirely different: first, in France, Kipling is not studied in elementary school; second, when I was, like, 6, my father used to read me The Jungle Book as a bedtime story (I mean, the real stuff, not the Disney ersatz)... you imagine the effects it produced on a young and impressionable Tororo.
I'd read it again several times since, as well as most of his "Empire" novelets and short stories.... in French translations, of course. I noticed that Borges often mentions Kipling as one of his favorite authors and praises his mastery of the English language... so when Kipling was mentioned some days ago in a conversation with ratsonjulia I thought it was time for starting reading it in English....
(unfortunately I'm very busy now and for some weeks will have not so much time for reading)
You're right, I find it too cruel to ask me to pick up a single Borges book!
And merely chosing among them some favorites is a tricky task. You'll not be surprised I mention first Ficciones and Otras Inquisiciones, these are the first ones I've read and they changed forever the way I look at books. The one I open more often is probably El Hacedor, the poems and short-short stories it contains have some of my favorite lines in them.
And you?