WH is infinitely preferable to Hardy's 'Return of the Native', trust me.

That was my A-Level nightmare. 650 pages of tedious crap about hills, rain and Wessex festivals. Hardy spent 30 pages near the start establishing Eustacia Vye as the tragic heroine, haunted by the rain and the darkness etc etc, and so I skipped to the end and surprise surprise ...

... she drowns herself! Turn up for the books.

Then we did 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett which was incredible. By then, however, Hardy had put me off literature and I'd chosen History on my UCAS form instead. Studying literature (and film) now but Hardy nearly put me off for life. Tosser.

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on May 10th 2005 at 23:50:32

Message Thread

i can't think of anything more to say about sunday (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, May 10, 23:04:57
- i just keep imagining (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:16:02
  - You'll still have to wait 24 hours then, Dave (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:17:22
    - it was intentional (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:20:47
      - Why not employ a typist? (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:22:13
        
        it's a fucking pain (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:31:08
        
        Well ... (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:34:43
        
        i'm not sure how i opened my first bank account... (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:44:21
        
        l love Paris... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:33:32
        
        what with that and Wuthering Heights (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:38:13
        
        very nice... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:41:19
        
        WH is infinitely preferable to Hardy's 'Return of the Native', trust me. (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:50:32
        
        i like hardy (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:54:34
        
        Weird ... (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:57:04
        
        Emile Bronte has put me off classics... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:52:16
        
        mark twain is just as much of a classic as WH (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:57:34
        
        Tom Sawyer and Huckerby Finn being a prime example... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:58:50
        
        Huckleberry Finn if anything ... (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 11, 00:00:14
        
        Thats the one! :D (n/m) (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 11, 00:00:39
        
        It's a shame, because you very nearly had a good joke there ... (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, May 11, 00:12:08
        
        the story is incidental (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:47:57
        
        Exactly... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:50:15
        
        fallacy (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:52:22
        
        trust me I could write an essay about that book... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:54:06
        
        you didnt explain why you preferred it (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 11, 00:00:23
        
        is this Otto or IED? (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:44:04
        
        I would have written an entirely pretentious explanation of why I didn't like WH ... (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:46:54
        
        you got a ticket then? (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:50:16
        
        Neutral end, yeah (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:52:20
        
        yep in away end (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:57:24
        
        Lol (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 10, 23:59:41
        
        nah not footy fans at all (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 11, 00:01:23
        
        That's what I'm worried about ... (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 11, 00:04:33
        
        I almost had to take my Mum to a football match once... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 11, 00:03:13
        
        that wouldnt have been the problem (NCFC) - Exile, May 11, 00:05:40
        
        You will... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:48:40
        
        lol (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:50:29
        
        IED, re-read the post and the poster's name (n/m) (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:45:58
        
        Probably. n/m (n/m) (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:23:41
- i will mainly be working my arse off (NCFC) - Exile, May 10, 23:07:54
  - Ummmm, you still coming? n/m (n/m) (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:08:51
    - isn't that (NCFC) - Dave in France, May 10, 23:21:06
      - I thought about it (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:27:31
    - hell yeah (NCFC) - Exile, May 10, 23:20:06
      - Okay... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:21:15
        
        oh shit i meant saturday (NCFC) - Exile, May 10, 23:23:21
        
        Okay... (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:24:32
        
        IED - How can you classify that as NCFC and not other chat ? (nm) (NCFC) - oh arr, May 11, 13:39:15
- then shut up about it then (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 26, May 10, 23:06:18
- I'm keeping my gob shut and sweating out the hours with history revision (n/m) (NCFC) - iwans_ex_dentist, May 10, 23:05:33

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