Reading Notes: Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
September 27-28, 2008. Transcribed from Twitter.
Hardy's "A Laodicean" sends one immediately to a dictionary. Laodicean, from "Revelations," is one who is lukewarm and thus to be "spat out" 6:11 PM Sep 27th, 2008 from txt
In "A Laodicean": strange character of the prankster and sneak Dare, whose age, nationality, profession, and gender are indeterminate, n ... 8:35 PM Sep 27th, 2008 from txt
Dare in "A Laodicean" first appears as a photographer and is said by another character to be "undeveloped." 8:38 PM Sep 27th, 2008 from txt
Undercurrents: Dare hears rumor of lesbian relations of Paula + Charlotte. Later states: "the woman that interests my heart has yet to ... 8:54 PM Sep 27th, 2008 from txt
Dare comments on DeStancy's spying on Paula: "a fermentation is beginning in him; a purely chemical process." 10:51 PM Sep 27th, 2008 from txt
Opposition of faith and chance in "A Laodicean": Dare's book of chances and Woodwell's bible and the alternate congregations at the casino ... 12:36 PM Sep 28th, 2008 from txt
Will Dare as prototype of Steerpike, a resemblance all the more pronounced with his casual, almost comic arson of Destancy Castle. 10:21 PM Sep 28th, 2008 from txt
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Reading Notes on Guy Mannering
Reading Notes: Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
September 13-16, 2008. Transcribed from Twitter.
Rainy morning, reading Walter Scott, "Guy Mannering." Advice: "fools should not have chapping sticks." 10:34 AM Sep 13th, 2008 from txt
"Guy Mannering": remarkable character of the lawyer Mr. Pleydell, intimate of the. E'burgh elite (Hume, J. S. Mill), devotee of High Jinks ... 9:26 PM Sep 14th, 2008 from txt
More Pleydell: Law's like laudenum; it's much more easy to use it as a quack does, than learn to apply it like a physician. 8:12 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
In "Guy Mannering," describing the scheming Gossin: "his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villany." 8:15 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
The gypsy sibyl Meg Merrilees to Mannering: "you are a good seeker, but a bad finder." 8:34 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
September 13-16, 2008. Transcribed from Twitter.
Rainy morning, reading Walter Scott, "Guy Mannering." Advice: "fools should not have chapping sticks." 10:34 AM Sep 13th, 2008 from txt
"Guy Mannering": remarkable character of the lawyer Mr. Pleydell, intimate of the. E'burgh elite (Hume, J. S. Mill), devotee of High Jinks ... 9:26 PM Sep 14th, 2008 from txt
More Pleydell: Law's like laudenum; it's much more easy to use it as a quack does, than learn to apply it like a physician. 8:12 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
In "Guy Mannering," describing the scheming Gossin: "his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villany." 8:15 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
The gypsy sibyl Meg Merrilees to Mannering: "you are a good seeker, but a bad finder." 8:34 AM Sep 16th, 2008 from web
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