tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1510697099509950140..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Washington Square's paraphernaliaAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-51656056023027768162012-04-25T15:01:58.794-05:002012-04-25T15:01:58.794-05:00Ah, you are ahead of me. I was going to ask you a...Ah, you are ahead of me. I was going to ask you about <i>Blindness</i> - I figured this one had to be enormously different.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-60032029001455117412012-04-25T11:41:23.726-05:002012-04-25T11:41:23.726-05:00I'm halfway through Baltasar and Blimunda; suc...I'm halfway through <i>Baltasar and Blimunda</i>; such a clever way he has of describing events and emotions. I'm quite impressed, as one is with Saramago, although it's very different from <i>Blindness</i>. Can't wait to discuss it with you in about a week or so.Bellezza https://www.blogger.com/profile/18073864187188953633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79844394957741603682012-04-17T23:38:51.373-05:002012-04-17T23:38:51.373-05:00There it is. I came looking for it earlier and cou...There it is. I came looking for it earlier and couldn't find it. I thought I was going to have to type the whole damn thing out again.Guy Savagehttp://www.swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37890817237045777832012-04-17T21:08:39.645-05:002012-04-17T21:08:39.645-05:00Guy Savage submitted a good followup comment that ...<i><a href="http://swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Guy Savage</a> submitted a good followup comment that I fear has been eaten by the Blogger shark. Here it is:</i><br /><br />It's a wonderful companion piece to Washington Square--although, alas, not heavy on detail. But here's quote regarding the relationship between two very different male characters:<br /><br />Disinterested parties were at a loss to discover how Osborne had come to set his heart upon an insignificant, lounging invalid, who, in general company, talked in monosyllables, in a weak voice, and gave himself the airs of one who nature had endowed with the right to be fastidious, without ever having done a stroke of work. Graham's partisans, on the other hand, who were chiefly women (which, by the way, effectually relieves him from the accusation occasionally brought against him of being "effeminate") were quite unable to penetrate the motives of his interest in a commonplace, hard-working lawyer, who addressed a charming woman as if he were exhorting a jury of grocers and undertakers, and viewed the universe as one vast "case."Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47718948740513902782012-04-16T21:23:16.396-05:002012-04-16T21:23:16.396-05:00"Osborne's Revenge," huh? #11 if I ..."Osborne's Revenge," huh? #11 if I am counting right. How was it? Lay a good detail on me - #s 1, <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2012/03/it-was-as-if-for-his-sake-he-could.html" rel="nofollow">2, 3, 4, and 7</a> were not all that strong on details.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-15327727940235882552012-04-16T20:28:51.352-05:002012-04-16T20:28:51.352-05:00I just finished Osborne's Revenge--a short sto...I just finished Osborne's Revenge--a short story by James. After reading Emma's Washington Square review, nothing could hold me back from returning to James, so thanks for the post. Yes it's all in the details!Guy Savagehttp://www.swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com