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Weekend! Yea!
Mar. 11th, 2005 01:41 pmI talked to my adviser and Lit Pix does, in fact, fit under 20th Century British or American Literature on my academic evaluation. Meaning it fulfills a core English requirement and I still have 15 credits for electives. Yea!
Apparently 393 and 400-something classes get plugged in sort of willy-nilly, to fill up whatever hasn't been taken yet. If I wanted to take several classes at that level I could and then have them rearranged. Something like that.
It's a good day. And I'm watching Two Guys and a Girl and omg I love Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion and the main chick who is now on Monk. OK, I love them all. But it's the Halloween episode and Sharon's mind is in Berg's body and Johnny's freaking out. Sharon's all upset because he won't kiss her. And so I almost got to see Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion making out. So very funny.
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The sentence that was current at the beginning of the nineteenth century ran something like this perhaps: "The grandeur of their works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. The could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generations of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success." That is a man's sentence; behind it one can see Johnson, Gibbon and the rest. It was a sentence that was unsuited for a woman's use. Charlotte Bronte, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it.
-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Jane Austen is brilliant. I knew there was a reason she's my favorite.
Apparently 393 and 400-something classes get plugged in sort of willy-nilly, to fill up whatever hasn't been taken yet. If I wanted to take several classes at that level I could and then have them rearranged. Something like that.
It's a good day. And I'm watching Two Guys and a Girl and omg I love Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion and the main chick who is now on Monk. OK, I love them all. But it's the Halloween episode and Sharon's mind is in Berg's body and Johnny's freaking out. Sharon's all upset because he won't kiss her. And so I almost got to see Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion making out. So very funny.
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The sentence that was current at the beginning of the nineteenth century ran something like this perhaps: "The grandeur of their works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. The could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generations of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success." That is a man's sentence; behind it one can see Johnson, Gibbon and the rest. It was a sentence that was unsuited for a woman's use. Charlotte Bronte, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it.
-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Jane Austen is brilliant. I knew there was a reason she's my favorite.
