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highlyeccentricI'm not doing so great in OE anymore. Terrible word retention. The site's broken at the moment, I've been copying out the piece for this week and trying to at least grammatically break it down if not translate it. I cannot tell the difference between a verb and a noun, it seems.
I need to get more sleep. Was up till one-thirty this morning talking to quisba. Was having a lonely, i think. Reena and Tess both went to bed early, and by midnight my room was seeming like the empty cavern.
Still haven't finished reading the Venerable Bede. Have read a few of the articles for the presentation though, and melanie is sending me the ppt from engish on wednesday so that i may hijack it for a brief illustration of Hiberno-Saxon Manuscript Art in my presentation.
I have been prejudiced- had assumed that Adam would not be working all that hard on this pres. Wrong. he's working harder than me. Bad amy. Just 'cos he's an exchange student and a boy and has his ear pierced and doesn't like the church, this is no reason to assume he is not a good student.
Reading: aside from the Venerable Bede and all things associated with him, and also Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi Anglorum (which i'm not so much reading as looking at, due to toal lack of comprehension of OE words), I'm reading Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. Have been fan since the first page. Is EXCELLENT. aside from really cool and weird characters, and a really strong sense of place, she has this brilliant way of phrasing things at times: 'Napoleon thoughtfully crossing the alps'; 'she subsided onto the floor'.
Sample which amused me muchly: ... two years ago, Rose accused one of Tony's graduate courses of being Eurocentric.
'Of course it's Eurocentric!' Tony said. 'What do you expect in a course entitled 'Meringovian Seige Strategy?'
'I think,' said Rose Pimlott... 'that you might teach the course from the point of view of the victims. Instead of marginalizing them.'
'Which victims?' said Tony. 'They were all victims! They took turns! Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war!'
... Tony considers telling Rose that Laura Secord... really had been a man in a dress. No woman, she would tell Rose, could possibly have shown such aggressiveness, or- if you like- such courage. That would stick Rose on the horns of a delemma! She'd have to maintain that women could be just as good at war as men were, and therefore, just as bad, or else that they were all by nature lilly-livered sissies. Tony was filled with curiosity to see which way Rose would jump.'
I need to get more sleep. Was up till one-thirty this morning talking to quisba. Was having a lonely, i think. Reena and Tess both went to bed early, and by midnight my room was seeming like the empty cavern.
Still haven't finished reading the Venerable Bede. Have read a few of the articles for the presentation though, and melanie is sending me the ppt from engish on wednesday so that i may hijack it for a brief illustration of Hiberno-Saxon Manuscript Art in my presentation.
I have been prejudiced- had assumed that Adam would not be working all that hard on this pres. Wrong. he's working harder than me. Bad amy. Just 'cos he's an exchange student and a boy and has his ear pierced and doesn't like the church, this is no reason to assume he is not a good student.
Reading: aside from the Venerable Bede and all things associated with him, and also Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi Anglorum (which i'm not so much reading as looking at, due to toal lack of comprehension of OE words), I'm reading Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. Have been fan since the first page. Is EXCELLENT. aside from really cool and weird characters, and a really strong sense of place, she has this brilliant way of phrasing things at times: 'Napoleon thoughtfully crossing the alps'; 'she subsided onto the floor'.
Sample which amused me muchly: ... two years ago, Rose accused one of Tony's graduate courses of being Eurocentric.
'Of course it's Eurocentric!' Tony said. 'What do you expect in a course entitled 'Meringovian Seige Strategy?'
'I think,' said Rose Pimlott... 'that you might teach the course from the point of view of the victims. Instead of marginalizing them.'
'Which victims?' said Tony. 'They were all victims! They took turns! Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war!'
... Tony considers telling Rose that Laura Secord... really had been a man in a dress. No woman, she would tell Rose, could possibly have shown such aggressiveness, or- if you like- such courage. That would stick Rose on the horns of a delemma! She'd have to maintain that women could be just as good at war as men were, and therefore, just as bad, or else that they were all by nature lilly-livered sissies. Tony was filled with curiosity to see which way Rose would jump.'