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Don't know anything about football, cricket, rugby or tennis, and would rather watch paint dry.
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« Reply #91 on: 13:29:29, 14-09-2007 » |
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I managed to do quite well in an exam that officially included The Faerie Queene without reading much of it. I worked out carefully in advance that if I knew every other text really well I could avoid Faerie Queene questions, and luckily that's how it worked out. My mother, on the other hand, used to go to the library when she was a child and read it for hours.
Well I can't imagine one could get the whole thing out of the way in mere minutes! Also: it took me several minutes, using the internet, to determine how to spell 'sequin'. Go figure, eh? |
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« Reply #92 on: 13:45:38, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've never read a word of The Faerie Queene either - who has amongst posters here, who can thus say 'Naa, Naa ni Naa Naa' to many of the rest of us?
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I've never read a word of The Faerie Queene either - who has amongst posters here, who can thus say 'Naa, Naa ni Naa Naa' to many of the rest of us?
They must have read all of it for it to count. Some of us here have read some of it. |
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I've never read a word of The Faerie Queene either - who has amongst posters here, who can thus say 'Naa, Naa ni Naa Naa' to many of the rest of us?
They must have read all of it for it to count. Some of us here have read some of it. Absolutely - partial readings do not count if one is to be allowed to preach superciliousness!  |
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« Reply #95 on: 14:55:42, 14-09-2007 » |
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I haven't read it, but my brother has, and not only that but wrote his PhD thesis on it. I just phoned him. He says, 'Naa naa di Naa naa, with big fat knobs on'.
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I haven't read it, but my brother has, and not only that but wrote his PhD thesis on it. I just phoned him. He says, 'Naa naa di Naa naa, with big fat knobs on'.
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« Reply #97 on: 15:02:10, 14-09-2007 » |
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What is The Faery Queene?
Who is Pynchon?
Never heard of them. Completely ignorant,you might say...
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« Reply #98 on: 15:03:04, 14-09-2007 » |
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Is that the Spenser F.Q.?
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« Reply #99 on: 15:04:58, 14-09-2007 » |
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Clever handling of Rule 2 that, KB! I phoned my brother again. He says, 'yes'.
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« Reply #100 on: 15:08:13, 14-09-2007 » |
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I don't think I've even read all of the Purcell version.
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« Reply #101 on: 15:18:10, 14-09-2007 » |
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I don't think I've even read all of the Purcell version.
Oh, I have. I've been in a production with full singing, dancing and acting companies; some cuts in the Chinese scene but otherwise complete; and an EIGHT P.M. start time  |
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« Reply #102 on: 15:21:53, 14-09-2007 » |
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I would just like to confim that I haven't read any of the Faerie Queene.
I also have in common with Ollie an inability to finish Proust or Cervantes. Other sizeable works of literature I have failed to finish:
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Midnight's Children (though I have read almost all of Rushdie's other novels to the end)
The Man Without Qualities
The Old and New Testaments
... but that doesn't result at all from an aversion to long books, I might add: some of my favourite books are relatively large.
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« Reply #103 on: 15:22:37, 14-09-2007 » |
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I don't think I've even read all of the Purcell version.
I remember being dreadfully upset when I purchased a recording only to discover that it was...not Spenser  |
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« Reply #104 on: 16:10:33, 14-09-2007 » |
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... but that doesn't result at all from an aversion to long books, I might add: some of my favourite books are relatively large.
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