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jake are u in vancouver?
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May 13, 04
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Even worth the effort of fumbling with those little windows?
Sometimes I loathe those windows, it's so hard to get them open and some guy always thinks 'oh that poor frail girl can't open the little window!' and then he tries to be tough guy mcgee and try to open it for me, and then he looks like an idiot because he can't do it either. Usually some old person who is like a bus vetran has to get up and show how it's done, with some kind of an effortless tug, and then we're all very humbled. At least that's how it usually happens.
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May 13, 04
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^so true.
i managed to get my own window open this time. usually for me though the trouble is in closing them. i get cold sitting there having the wind in my face so i get up to close the window. and from that point on it's like Jake Vs. The Transit Window From Hell. i won't give up until it's closed. dammit! I'm a human and it's a window! we invented you, bitch!
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May 13, 04
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May 13, 04
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There was always strange bus window politics involved when taking the old 351 busses from white rock to vancouver ....it'd always be the coldest day and some jerk with like a coat and 6 sweaters on would insist on just opening the windows RIGHT UP instead of shedding a layer. Then you'd be caught on the highway being blasted by that cold, cold wind. F that bus! I don't miss it one bit!
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May 13, 04
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haha i fuckin love that guy!
did you just read the 'your favourites' thing? I want to read more of his plays. I read Importance of Being Earnest a couple times...and i bought this book a little while ago that has two of his other plays in it, but i haven't gotten around to reading it. I love Picture of Dorian Grey though...I hate that one chapter that just describes all those material possessions...i mean i get the point, but c'mon..so long and boring!
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May 13, 04
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You hated it? But it was a wonderful satire on how awfully materialistic Victorian Society was. Bless Mr Wilde because he made one of the most uptight and shameful Eras of English Society actually interesting! I mean, we can talk about Victorian authors that tend to ramble on about things making them long and boring like oh..Charles Dickens. Yes, the man was an amazing author, he just had this tendancy to carry on more than it was always necessary. Getting through some of his novels was a real chore! :P
I have a big book that is a compliation of all of Oscar Wilde's writing, if you promise to treat it nice, you can borrow it!
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May 13, 04
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Myra, I know we don't know eachother that well...so let me set something straight here.
Books are temples to me. I don't break their spines, I don't spill things on them, i only use a book mark and i don't dog-ear the pages. When I am finished a book it looks almost the same as when i started reading it. So yes, i will treat your books nicely. I agree that it is a nice satire on the victorian era and their obsession with materialistic posessions, but i thought it could have been done in less of a dry manner than he did by simply listing all the things that Gray had. I mean he does everything else realy interesting, why not that? I haven't read any Charles Dickons, but I know that Victor Hugo does the same thing. Great great writer, but for the love of god i don't want to read 1325253 pages about the battle of waterloo get back to the story!!!!
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May 13, 04
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That is fantastic! Because really, dog-earing pages is one of my pet peeves. Seriously. My copy of the life of pi has been whored out so much and really, it's seen prettier days. It kind of makes me sad, because that is something I know I'm going to want to read again. Some jerk spilled juice on it :(
Someone also did that with one of my dalai llama books, too! So you've passed the test, you are allowed to borrow it for sure! You've got to read some Dickens eventually...he does paint a nice picture of what a lot of English Society was at that time, very impoverished. I'm afraid that Victorian Literature is among my least favorites, so I don't have a whole lot I can reccomend to you. If you want to get really deperessed and feel horrible about life, then pick up some Thomas Hardy, specifically, Jude the Obscure (nothing about that will make you feel good, or happy!)
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May 13, 04
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I know how you feel, someone spilled red wine on my copy of The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner (really good Vancouver writer). Luckily most of it i could just wipe off the cover.
I want to borrow a dallai lama book too! I went to see him speak with Erin and my dad and stepmom when he was talking at the Pacific Colloseum, it was really cool. I don't know if this is really Victorian, i think it is. But I read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and that was really good. really dark too, which i liked a lot.
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May 13, 04
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PS. I have a couple Dickens books lying on my shelf. I think I have that Christmas one he wrote, Great Expectations and David Copperfield...i've been meaning to read one of them, but with school reading this year i didn't have a lot of time to read books for pleasure. and when i did, i felt guilty for not reading for school.
I plan on doing a lot of reading this summer.
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May 13, 04
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The Bronte sisters are considered Victorian...I could barely finish Wuthering Heights...haha..and I think I half enjoyed Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (again, a sad story) but seriously, I have a hate on for that era!
DAMN THAT ERA!
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May 13, 04
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haha. i thought wuthering heights was going to be really bad as well, but something about her writing just made me slip really easily into the story. I love how they wrote back then...the sentences just seem to flow from one to another, i find it really easy to just sit down and read it for a long time.
not to mention you look/feel cultured!
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May 13, 04
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You know, I find that when you read something that's been closely translated from another language, you'll really begin to appreciate the beauty of the sentances.
I've been reading a lot of literature out of Japan in the last while, and I just love the way that the sentances are constructed. I find that pretty neat, do you too? I especially think it's really neat to hear people who have english as their second language speak, just because they have such different ways of describing even the most mundane things. To me, that's pretty exciting. hah. Am I out on a limb here?
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May 13, 04
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No, i know exactly what you mean!!!
I was just out to lunch today with some friends and there was this girl from Greece that could speak good english, but she struggled for some words here and there. and it was so cool to hear her try to describe things, because she used words in ways that i would never think to use them! i wanted to write down what she was saying. as for the translated text thing, i would love to read something that has been translated from japanese into english. i've read some russian into english, that's okay, and i've read french into english which is pretty cool. I guess it all depends on the translator though...whether they are going for direct translation or just translating the beauty of what the writer was trying to get across (which i think is better, even if it's not as direct)
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