tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5418559218387727320..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: it just wasn’t as I’d imagined it, and so the pleasure wasn’t that great ––– Strindberg, big and smallAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-31882511304802950732014-10-29T16:49:35.587-05:002014-10-29T16:49:35.587-05:00Hmm, must read, must read.Hmm, must read, must read.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47448614720065759622014-10-29T16:43:02.042-05:002014-10-29T16:43:02.042-05:00The Alice books, as original as they are, seem lik...The Alice books, as original as they are, seem like conventional dream narratives compared with S & B, which unfolds in three levels of consciousness (sleep, waking, and half-sleep), and is filled with the "litterature" (Dodgson's term) of his peculiar brain. Parts of it are truly awful. But they make it better, of course. Doug Skinnerhttp://www.dougskinner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54635407320909133212014-10-29T14:03:16.516-05:002014-10-29T14:03:16.516-05:00Alice books for me, too, although I have still not...Alice books for me, too, although I have still not read <i>Sylvie and Bruno</i>. Then some of Carroll's followers - <i>The Phantom Tollbooth</i>, or even earlier, Dr. Seuss, even Sesame Street, a world where a furry green thing living in a trash can and a gargantuan canary with the mentality of a five year-old are an accepted part of a New York City block.<br /><br />Real New Yorkers will say "Yeah, what's your point," but out in the hills it seemed pretty strange to me.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-15869299637758765522014-10-29T10:47:03.575-05:002014-10-29T10:47:03.575-05:00I accepted strangeness early on, thanks to Lewis C...I accepted strangeness early on, thanks to Lewis Carroll. The Alice books and the Snark were fun, but "Sylvie and Bruno" is still the weirdest book I've ever read.Doug Skinnerhttp://www.dougskinner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44661501996847991662014-10-27T15:56:00.956-05:002014-10-27T15:56:00.956-05:00That is a good literary lesson, the acceptance of ...That is a good literary lesson, the acceptance of strangeness, well worth a lot of bafflement.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17594642064897569302014-10-27T13:04:32.524-05:002014-10-27T13:04:32.524-05:00I'm not sure what I made of Strindberg at 16. ...I'm not sure what I made of Strindberg at 16. Perhaps it gave me at an early age a remarkable acceptance of strangeness in literature. Certainly I've never been that impressed by the oddness of works which others have found notably odd: e.g. Kafka's Metamorphosis.obookihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03885121629202810216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64429741809234474452014-10-26T22:57:14.238-05:002014-10-26T22:57:14.238-05:00I would have been so lost at 16. At 19, I would h...I would have been so lost at 16. At 19, I would have had a chance, maybe. <br /><br />That "character" is definitely there, as if they are meant to be represented on-stage somehow.<br /><br />Those history plays are tempting.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-83390598437464416672014-10-24T19:40:33.277-05:002014-10-24T19:40:33.277-05:00I read all these Strindberg plays when I was 16, a...I read all these Strindberg plays when I was 16, and I've forgotten almost everything about them. I do remember though there was a character in one of them (or at least a stage direction) called All Right Thinking People. It amuses me even now.<br /><br />I have been reading some of his historical plays (the Vasa Trilogy): quite, quite different; and teaching me a lot about Swedish history.obookihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03885121629202810216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-38120195643361107702014-10-24T14:36:33.456-05:002014-10-24T14:36:33.456-05:00If only there were a little more of the Billposter...If only there were a little more of the Billposters and less of the questing deities. Regardless, easily worth reading. Pretty clearly worth reading quite a bit more than what I read.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39467616365645358072014-10-24T10:23:36.748-05:002014-10-24T10:23:36.748-05:00Now I want to go out and read Strinberg. Thanks a...Now I want to go out and read Strinberg. Thanks a lot. ;-) <br /><br />He's someone I have never read. But I love this character of the Billposter. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com