Weekly Sunday reading fest
Feb. 2nd, 2003 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elaby[edit 2007: Ahahahahaha *nervous laughter* I totally didn't get Gawain when I read it in Brit Lit. Totally missed the point. And the wonderfullness of it. Probably because the second time around I read it after a great deal of Malory, and Gawain's alliteration was a welcome relief.]
I REALLY hope Merchant of Venice is going to be more exciting than Gawain and the Green Knight.
I don't have to have it done until Wednesday, but I know that if I don't
read it today, I'll never do it. Maybe I'll just do the exercise on
Tuesday night.
But anyway, about Gawain... after a while, alliteration really starts getting on my nerves. Maybe later when I feel like getting the book out again I'll post some examples, but they
weren't very interesting... things like "And the mighty men made merry
with meats of myriad make" and stuff like that. Fifty pages of that
really starts making me twitch. And Gawain was such a... prat...
And my mom just told me that there's a guy all dressed in black who, ever
since 1949, has left half a bottle of cognac and three red roses on
Edgar Allan Poe's grave to mark his birthday.
But anyway. About Gawain. He's absolutely disgustingly pure, and I know that's the
point... but women throw themselves at him and climb into his bed while
he's sleeping (really) and he refuses them because he's so... pure, I
guess... I couldn't really figure out his motives other than "I'm not
good enough for you!" Oh, he lets her kiss him... but that's okay? O_o
*twitches* Then he won't accept her gift of a ring, but he will accept
her gift of a girdle that supposedly protects him from all harm (he's
going to get his head chopped off as a condition of fighting the Green
Knight a year ago) but it ends up being a horrible thing because
wearing the girdle made him flinch when the Green Knight was about ot
ax his head off. Not like any normal person would do that... *rolls
eyes* But he's NOT normal, he's perfect. Except that he flinched. And
it's aaaaall the girl's fault, because she's really the Green Knight's
wife and is an evil bitch. I guess.
The Green Knight was kind of nifty, though, because he really WAS green. Everywhere. Skin, hair, clothes... even his horse was green. He got his head chopped off in the
beginning and he picked it up and walked off. Morgan le Faye created
(?) him to... um... cause trouble for Arthur, I guess. But anything
created by Morgan le Faye is cool. Even if he did have a scary
bush-beard.
On to Shakespeare...
I REALLY hope Merchant of Venice is going to be more exciting than Gawain and the Green Knight.
I don't have to have it done until Wednesday, but I know that if I don't
read it today, I'll never do it. Maybe I'll just do the exercise on
Tuesday night.
But anyway, about Gawain... after a while, alliteration really starts getting on my nerves. Maybe later when I feel like getting the book out again I'll post some examples, but they
weren't very interesting... things like "And the mighty men made merry
with meats of myriad make" and stuff like that. Fifty pages of that
really starts making me twitch. And Gawain was such a... prat...
And my mom just told me that there's a guy all dressed in black who, ever
since 1949, has left half a bottle of cognac and three red roses on
Edgar Allan Poe's grave to mark his birthday.
But anyway. About Gawain. He's absolutely disgustingly pure, and I know that's the
point... but women throw themselves at him and climb into his bed while
he's sleeping (really) and he refuses them because he's so... pure, I
guess... I couldn't really figure out his motives other than "I'm not
good enough for you!" Oh, he lets her kiss him... but that's okay? O_o
*twitches* Then he won't accept her gift of a ring, but he will accept
her gift of a girdle that supposedly protects him from all harm (he's
going to get his head chopped off as a condition of fighting the Green
Knight a year ago) but it ends up being a horrible thing because
wearing the girdle made him flinch when the Green Knight was about ot
ax his head off. Not like any normal person would do that... *rolls
eyes* But he's NOT normal, he's perfect. Except that he flinched. And
it's aaaaall the girl's fault, because she's really the Green Knight's
wife and is an evil bitch. I guess.
The Green Knight was kind of nifty, though, because he really WAS green. Everywhere. Skin, hair, clothes... even his horse was green. He got his head chopped off in the
beginning and he picked it up and walked off. Morgan le Faye created
(?) him to... um... cause trouble for Arthur, I guess. But anything
created by Morgan le Faye is cool. Even if he did have a scary
bush-beard.
On to Shakespeare...
