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He is very clear in the letter that he did love her before he left for England. What he's saying is that he was naive about matters of love and continued to idealize her even as he outgrew those feelings. Eventually his "love" was nothing more than the memory of having loved her once. As an older and wiser man he realized marrying her would have meant living the prosaic life of a professor, never excelling at anything, which was most important to him.

>I wouldn’t want this type of stuff released after my death.

I'm fairly certain, once you're dead, you won't care.

The Waste Land was essentially rewritten/edited by Ezra Pound

The way he did it was revolutionary at the time. He segues his description of the mass of London commuters with Dante's descriptions of the indecisive angels at the vestibule of hell is amazing. And the contrast of the Philemon/Tereus story in a game of chess with it's mythology of mutilation with the conversation about demob soldiers and their girlfriends and their own sexual fulfilment (or lack). It's still so artfully done

Fair, but what about the cab driver who recognized and robbed him then?

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T.S. Neil Cicierega

Those MSN chat logs are coming back to haunt you

The right to say "oh yeah I've read it" when someone wants to talk about a book that I've listened to.

That is a pity! The book has so much in it that I understand how hard it is to pack everything in and do it justice on screen.

I've never actually seen the Tim Curry version all the way through...I saw part of it and something about the shower with the drain stretching around him as he clambers out really haunted me. (Am I remembering that correctly? I have no clue, it's been decades.) I was living alone over winter break in a college dorm--there were probably other people in the building but I never saw them--and stopped showering until people started coming back onto campus, and had to time my showers to be when other people were in the bathroom lol.

Yeah the whole thing does seem a bit silly to me. Even if we take it as colloquial rights, as in, “stop giving people a hard time for doing this,” I feel like the right to DNF is the only one on the list that anyone would even give a hard time over. I’d probably fill in the rest with stuff about people’s right to have their own opinions and interpretations which may differ from the author’s, etc.

Are you just generally this abrasive to everyone you meet as a matter of principle?

It felt like she wrote it knowing it was going to be adapted into a television show, so deliberately didn’t add any thing descriptive, just dialog

👍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovarysme

Hardbacks I understand. They are more durable, and most people prefer them over paperbacks. I'm talking about the ~23cm tall paperbacks vs the standard ~19cm paperbacks.

Why the 100 year mark? I presume you haven’t been alive and reading adult literature for 100 years. There are far newer works that have entered the cultural zeitgeist to the point that it’s hard not to be spoiled just by living in the world (think Harry Potter or Twilight). There are far older works that most people don’t know—I doubt the average person on the street could tell you the major plot points or ending of a single work by George Eliot, let alone, say, George Gissing (perhaps my personal favorite Victorian novelist!).

I liked Joyland quite a bit. Skeleton Crew, Nighrmares and Dreamscapes (short story collections), The Bachman Books, Eyes of the Dragon, Different Seasons are shorter books.

I don't really consider books to be too long. If I get bored, that's just a sign that I don't like the book. All or nothing for me!

Still remember when I was young, my family going to the same vacation spot and seeing my summer friends once a year. The changes between a full year are so much more pronounced, especially for growing kids. I guess at this point this experience is almost entirely gone now, with people uploading selfies daily. Would have been nice to have the internet then but I enjoyed that experience as well.

Sorry, you've gone much farther up your own ass than I care to follow.

You make some interesting points but I still think my perspective has some merit. I’ll call to my point that Paul Owens seems to be someone who is more respected and maybe less likely to be confused with someone else but I do agree with you that it is a recurring theme of the names being confused in the book.

As for the realtor, to the best of my memory, Patrick is described as appearing nervous and shifty when he comes to the open house. The realtor could have easily taken this as Patrick coming to steal something from the open house or to generally cause that sort of trouble.

But again, I agree that there are points that go for and against my argument.

Fang. He’s a total sweetheart.

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What else did he part from behind?