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October 13, 2005
Harold, John, George & Wilkie.
1) Harold Pinter gets Nobel Prize for Literature. I should have something worthwhile to say on this but my brain has gone on mushy on me. What I found more interesting was that Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood were ‘long-range possibilities’ whatever that means. For a second I was going to look at the list of past winners and count how many were women but I’ll delegate that one. Anyone?
2) As my brain has gone into hurt mode I think any more revision (of the thinking too much kind) tonight would be completely pointless. So I’m trying to work out whether to re-read some more Woman in White (I forgot the plot - or else I lost it) or watch Middlemarch on video which I have on loan from Mr PE’s university library, if I remember rightly is about as close to the book as a TV adaptation can possibly get, which would be helpful as there is no way I’m going to get all 100squillion of those pages re-read before Tuesday, or I could just screw the lot and listen to John Peel night on Radio 1.
3) Nope I wasn’t just trying to compete with George Eliot in constructing the longest run on sentence in the world ever (I swore to God I found it last time I read Middlemarch and promptly lost it again and no I’m not going to look for it now) I just haven’t got the energy to try and work out where all those capital letters and semi colons and full stops are supposed to go. Goddammit who needs them?
4) Has anyone ever failed an exam because their grammar was so bad that the examiner couldn’t be bothered to work out what the hell was going on?
5) I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say today, can you tell?
6) Middlemarch it is then.
Posted by purple elephant at October 13, 2005 07:40 PM