I told you you wanted to read Gaudy Night. :) Although... do you want to hit Harriet with a copy of the OED yet for being so damn stubborn about Peter? Honestly. (Or possibly what's-her-name's manuscript, the one Harriet helps out with that's been going on for years and years.)
I think it's worth pointing out that nobody sane ever wanted to continue studying the subject that a four-hour class was on, because after four hours, you're just so damn sick of it. (Or maybe that's me....) But still, I don't think not liking business has anything to do with being mature.
As to reading EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN OMG, I think having a passing knowledge of the style of American authors will help you immensely. A tendency to overwrite and use one-sentence chapters talking about fish? Faulker. Lack of any description whatsoever and characters so freaking annoying you wish he'd turned that shotgun on himself sooner? Hemingway. A preternatural obsession with morality? All of them Hawthorne. You get the idea. But that's how I fudged my way through the GRE; I recognized the Wilde quote I'm still so smug about because I was familiar with Wilde's style, not because I'd seen or read The Importance of Being Earnest at that point (to my shame).
After all, Janet's father managed to know neither the Jacobeans or the Moderns, and he did very well, ne? :D
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Date: 2005-08-16 04:54 am (UTC)I think it's worth pointing out that nobody sane ever wanted to continue studying the subject that a four-hour class was on, because after four hours, you're just so damn sick of it. (Or maybe that's me....) But still, I don't think not liking business has anything to do with being mature.
As to reading EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN OMG, I think having a passing knowledge of the style of American authors will help you immensely. A tendency to overwrite and use one-sentence chapters talking about fish? Faulker. Lack of any description whatsoever and characters so freaking annoying you wish he'd turned that shotgun on himself sooner? Hemingway. A preternatural obsession with morality?
All of themHawthorne. You get the idea. But that's how I fudged my way through the GRE; I recognized the Wilde quote I'm still so smug about because I was familiar with Wilde's style, not because I'd seen or read The Importance of Being Earnest at that point (to my shame).After all, Janet's father managed to know neither the Jacobeans or the Moderns, and he did very well, ne? :D