Eucatastrophy Reader: 2009

“’Quite Happy’ is not the end I want to write for my story”

2009-11-07T04:15:25Z

Miss Austen Regrets tries to tell the story of a human being who cannot find a counterpart but nevertheless, feels the need of one. Ironically, it is the story of one of Western Literature’s most formidable Romance novelists, Jane Austen. I...

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Victoria No Longer Secret

2009-11-02T19:07:42Z

The past few days have allowed me to watch two documentaries. One is from the Poetry Anthology series on the Victorian poets. The other is the PBS Empires series documentary on the Victorian Era. Like the other documentaries in this series (...

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"That no man remember me"

2009-10-18T16:25:27Z

The Mayor of Casterbridge The first chapter of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge makes for compelling reading. A man arrives at a county fair. He drinks too much. He decides to auction off his wife and daughter to anyone who will pay his...

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"While I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain."

2009-10-18T03:24:44Z

The Page Turner I am presently engaged in a discussion with my Ethics class and a Literature class in Jordan about the theme of revenge and retaliation. My colleague in Jordan brought up a great passage in Wuthering Heights. It records a conve...

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"Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not."

2009-10-11T17:06:25Z

“Who would have thought that behind them, within ten miles, London began—that London of the Forsytes, with its wealth, its misery; its dirt and noise; its jumbled stone isles of beauty, its grey sea of hideous brick and stucco? That London which ...

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"I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!"

2009-10-10T06:03:20Z

Far from the Maddening Crowd: Thomas Hardy One woman. Three men. The woman, Bathsheba Everdene, Beautiful. One man, Mr. Boldwood: Too old for her and riddled with insecurities but seriously OCD smitten. One man, Frank Troy: A player b...

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"It had been forgotten that Love is no hot-house flower"

2009-10-04T17:23:37Z

[I have NO idea why VOX is creating these red fonted underlines! Drives me crazy. I can't get rid of them] I wish I could figure out a way to combine the benefits of watching a movie based on a novel and reading the novel itself. I confess...

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“He is the Moses of race hatred in the United States.”

2009-09-30T17:12:09Z

“He is the Moses of race hatred in the United States.” Gedalia Bublick, of Madison Grant Defending the Master Race by Jonathan Spiro is probably the most important work of History that I have or will read this year. Much like David Hackett F...

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“I defy you to forget me entirely.”

2009-09-29T16:54:59Z

“She only said, My life is dreary He cometh not she said She said I am aweary a weary, I wish that I were dead.” Marianna, Tennyson I was talking with my Vermont History class today about 17th Century Vermont History and one of my students w...

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“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”

2009-09-28T04:05:27Z

All I can say is that this is Oscar Wilde well done. There are not many plays that can be read with an understanding that there are layers of meaning embedded in all the dialog while being the sort of play that you can thoroughly enjoy without t...

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