literature – Gruts

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Theoretical frivolousness

In which I am bamboozled (once again) by the LRB.

Stendhal shows how it's done.

High-brow literary pun alert!

In which I spot a howler in Virginia Woolf's ‘Mrs Dalloway’.

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Nabokov quote. Discuss.

My prediction as to the outcome of the Harry Potter saga.

I think I might be a philistine.

Comment on Book review: ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf by Geoffrey Kirkman
This is a very overrated book. The characterization is flimsy, the characters uninteresting. The stream of consciousness produces long sentences which are often undecipherable and must be reread several times. Woolf's use of dreamy metaphors is sometimes impressive, but overall I couldn't wait to finish it, just to get it over with.
Comment on That's not what Bob Birrell told us by Ray Reeves
More old Birkenhead School teachers that have somewhow escaped mention: "Twilight" Stephens Turberfield Trewhella Larry Leather "TAP" Pringle Tom Hockton "The Bat"
Comment on That's not what Bob Birrell told us by Evo
Lots of interesting recollections on here. Birkenhead School had a few inspirational teachers but my overriding recollection is that it employed many social misfits (and low level paedophiles) who either disliked young boys or had an unhealthy interest in them…. Pig Holman was quite possibly the most irreligious and emotionally repressed example of humanity. Gwilliam […]