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[minervasolo]

Turns out, I actually have more time off this year than I did last year. Okay, it's half an hour more, and it's still only 3 hours out of thirty, but woo.

And painispretty has read Knowledge of Angels! I have to order that books from Amazon at some point. Read it in the library at my old school (I spent lot of time in there, because all my friends were musical or Christian and abandoned me at lunch times) and haven't seen it anywhere since. Hmm, hunt.

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[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Despite the odd gratuitous sex scene [and yes, a 17-year-old me, the kind that looks at LINOLEUM and thinks of sex, deemed it "gratuitous"] it's a fascinating book, and the arguments for and against the existence of God are really well thought out. I can see if I can find some of my old essays on it if you need any E-Lit related help, though I'm sure you don't.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

We're not actually doing Knowledge for Eng lit, just Handmaid's Tale. i just remembered the book because everyone else looks utterly blank when i talk about it.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Ah, we did Handmaid's as well, just for the coursework.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

yup, Handmaind's is for coursework for us to. We've got Othello, Chaucer and William Blake for the rest of it. I'd much rather have handmaid's in an exam than the others, but oh well.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lindsay has some kind of demented intellectual hard-on for Blake. And Chaucer? You poor thing.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Good timing with the beeb doing those chaucer ripoffs though. Practically nothing like the originals, but we have a nice teacher who can probably be persuaded into letting us watch them anyway ^_^
I didn't used to like Blake, but it turns out he was a complete nutter and also wrote Rule Britannia and Jerusalum (sp?), which amused me. the pictures are pretty though, even if the publishers did double the price of the book as soon as they found out it was on hte A level course.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember watching the animated versions of Chaucer's tales - I liked it, mostly because the animation was all hip and arthouse and I'm stupid and a sucker for animation anyway. Except anime.

Did he? Scorching. He was a bit bonkers, he used to see giant lizards all over the place. Which I only do when I'm having a bad comedown, and I don't think E existed back then...

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was opium? Though I think that didn't become popular til later, like coke. Are magic mushrooms native to Britain?

The only animated versions I've seen of Chaucer's Tales are the watered down kids ones with really poor animtion, made decades ago. Chaucer's Tales are much bette with the smut left in.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

There are hallucinogenic mushrooms native to Britain, yes ... Opium's been available since we started trading with China in the 1400s, but it wasn't really popular until the Victorians were all depraved with it.

Those might have been the ones I saw. Or not.