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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Clarity has been achieved

Jude the Obscure has been read. Hmm. Not sure what I think. Is it to be placed squarely in the Madame Bovary hate column? Not quite but almost I think. I think that may be blasphemy. I am well aware that Hardy shocked his generation with Jude, but really, I must continue to stand by my opinion that Charlotte Bronte's Villette ranks as the most coherent and true reflection of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian Age. Get a life Jude! And Sue, you freak, get some Prozac. Arabella you're a slut. Lastly, I bet Richard was good in bed. What a stud. (Richard, you should never have taken her back...)

OK, it's 7pm and if I have to read anything more that's good for my intellect, I'm going to scream. I'm going to put on my jammies and work on my synopsis for The Rake.
Comments:
Thank you! I always felt oddly guilty for my reaction to this book, but I was about ready to hang somebody--myself, my prof, anybody--by the time I finished it! I agree with your character assessments, too...hey, maybe it was just Hardy who needed the Prozac! :-)

By the way, wasn't there an article and an interview that you were also supposed to get done? How are they going? *jumps back to avoid the large stick swung by a certain stressed grad student/teacher/author/mom* Maybe I shouldn't ask?

Well, off to check my chicklets' outfits for tomorrow's "History Mystery Night". 5y.o. Lora is Deborah (O.T. judge), 8y.o. Anna is Queen Boadicea (kicking Roman tush), 11y.o. Jacob is Jedediah Smith (mountain man), and 13y.o. Aaron is Tom Brown, jr. (professional tracker and survival expert). What a crew!

BTW, the dictionaries I looked at gave "bodacious" as being derived from "bold"+"audacious". I always figured it was derived from Boadicea (Boudicca, whatever). What's your theory? And which of your heroines strikes you as the most "bodacious"? :-D

Ace that exam on Monday!
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