Intrigued squeak
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Wait till Twellsy hears about it!
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She just has Joe
Right wee birdie
Tell me all
Or else I will speak to your bruvver about you being cruel to an old bat
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Well, Iām looking for an interesting sentence or two to say about an E-Type, an Elan, a DB5 and a 911, among others. Which I dare say I shall come up with, but I donāt have 'em right now.
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āPick any one you like out of the first three, but donāt touch the fourth with a bargepoleā.
But what do I know?
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Elan, Eclat, Eclairā¦
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Four wheels good, two wheels bad, to misquote Orwell.
(Gawd I hated my O level literature syllabus - I managed to get that, the Ancient Mariner and Lord of the Flies. Itās a wonder I ever read another book.)
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We got a compare-and-contrast selection at O-Level: Lord of the Flies, A High Wind in Jamaica, and Kim. I have a feeling I may have got my 1 in Englit by making it clear that I found Kim an incomparably better book. Or perhaps memorising Henry IV Pt I and Hamlet was wot dunnit.
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We had five, a list I can probably drag up if I probe hard enough. But the only one of them I could read for quite a while afterwards was Pride and Prejudice.
Iāll have the first verse for a breakout quote. Ta.
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We had LOTF too. Macbeth. The Mayor of Casterbridge, I think. Peoms of some kind. I forget, really.I was lucky, because a wonderful English mistress saw I was bored rigid and drove me off to read lots more Golding, Hardy, ect ect, and pomes in vast profusion, and do essays about them, so I cannot now remember what was syllabus and what not.
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Oh lud, The Mayor of Casterbridge. Thinking of Great English Classics, I also remember having to read Silas Marner, though that may not have been an actual O-level text. Just a sort of ābreak the little sodsā spirit earlyā effort, possibly. Also Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding, or was it Henry Fielding by Joseph Andrews?
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Not forgetting Gray. And Swift. And Pope at A-level.
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We had Pride and Prejudice Animal Farm Macbeth and The Mayor of Casterbrige
All rendered to unintelligible by a teacher who read a chapter in a monotone and set homework dissecting the chapter
My thing is
I am literate
Ergo
Why should I demonstrate literacy and comprehension when all someone else needs to do is read the sodding book?
Presumably the examiners read the books too
As for the Merchant of Venice and the Lord of the Flies - give me strength
As you may gather I loathed English Lit
English Language was just FUN
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Oh yes, Joseph Andrews featured somewhere, I think. Not Silas Marner, though.
Himself was inexplicably attached to The Mill on the Floss. Perhaps I should have worried more about that at the time ;- )
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Well, that must have come as a Grate Relief.
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Oh, they did. Except the only Pope we had was the Rape of the bleedinā Lock, which is only really fun if you are pretty well-up in the characters, social history and court gossip of the period, really; and at that time I had not read The Age of Scandal. I wish weād done the āEpistle to Dr Arbuthnotā instead, and had really good instruction about whom exactly he was lampooning. Sporus, huh?
And more John Donne.
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All right then, letās see whatās still in the depths of my mind.
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Comedy of Errors
- Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
- One Iāve apparently now forgotten
Nineteen Eighty-Four was on the list, but we didnāt do it.
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Urrrk. Unkind to young Birds, that is.
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Put me off Shakespeare for, hm, about fifteen years that did.
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