tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5233449946157503208..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The effect is like bedaubing a marble statue with paint - Hawthorne meddles with classical mythsAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73479979279772454442010-11-01T22:58:40.304-05:002010-11-01T22:58:40.304-05:00It's a dangerous pursuit, looking for the doub...It's a dangerous pursuit, looking for the double entendres. They multiply alarmingly. <br /><br />I now what you mean, nicole, about the "what are these books" issue. The Tanglewood Music Festival and so on is actually named after the book (indirectly - it's named after an estate named after a house named after a cottage named after the book or something like that). But none of that is related to the content of the book.<br /><br />Richard, hold your praise until you see what I do with Laura Ingalls Wilder next week. No, go ahead - there's good stuff in Wilder. Philosophical disquisitions on the nature of time, for example. That will actually be a post, I think.<br /><br />Do you ever take a look at the transcendent <a href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">A Journey Round My Skull</a>? He puts up some unbelievable illustrations frm children's books, some of them <i>completely insane</i>. Surrealist, Constructivist, Expressionist, whatever. No need to lower standards with the kiddie books.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3081604424080645632010-11-01T19:21:31.850-05:002010-11-01T19:21:31.850-05:00How sad, awful, and embarrassing is it that I didn...How sad, awful, and embarrassing is it that I didn't know this is what <em>A Wonder Book</em> and <em>Tanglewood Tales</em> actually <em>were</em>. But then, how wonderful that I know now, because I want to read them lots more. Admittedly, though, the earlier sex joke was better.<br /><br />Also, what Richard said.nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46477214388853821992010-11-01T19:10:41.511-05:002010-11-01T19:10:41.511-05:00If you were so inclined, you might find a joke bef...If you were so inclined, you might find a joke before the parentheses, namely, a pun on "abode" that exploits the ambiguity of "his" in "he found comfort in his magnificent abode." <br /><br />But that's just creepy!<br /><br />By the by, the pairing of "sex joke" and "children" is about as comfortable as buying Halloween candy and Astroglide.<br /><br />That's even creepier than a pun that falls flat.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Kinterpolationshttp://interpolations.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-65697186280386458502010-11-01T15:36:05.960-05:002010-11-01T15:36:05.960-05:00You and Hawthorne do kiddie lit/YA fiction better ...You and Hawthorne do kiddie lit/YA fiction better than the rest of America's blog world, that's for sure!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com