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read it today. its fantastic and beautiful. will post more at some point
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Ben Nevis posted:Just finished Arcadia, and I rather enjoyed it. One aspect, not really mentioned in reviews or summaries I've read, dovetailed nicely with the Mosley (John Woman) is the view of history as unknown and unknowable. I'm enjoying reading about this after the fact for the bits I didn't pick up on. i don't know about unknowable; Hannah does eventually figure out what happened with Thomasina and Septimus. she's right about pretty much everything, in fact, including that the drawing is by Fuseli, and it being of Lamb and Byron. but problems of interpretation - correct knowledge - are certainly central to the text. the first scene plays with this a lot; the best example is probably the risque banter when it sounds to lady coverly like septimus has slept with thomasina. that bit and others are funny to us because we know what's going on, so we can laugh at the characters' incorrect interpretation, but Stoppard turns that around at the end of act 2: chloe tells hannah that her 'genius brother' is in love with her, and we (or at least I) and hannah both assume that's referring to valentine, the postgrad. the last action in the scene, though, is us being proved wrong, when it's revealed that chloe was referring to gus
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poisonpill posted:But it’s the snappy dialogue and pacing, which the super smart Lit people dismiss as workman’s craft what the hell are you talking about lmao
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Nov 20, 2018 18:47
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no i don't give a poo poo about indiana jones i want to know what you're on about w/r/t "lit people" disregarding dialogue as "workman's craft". i'm particularly interested in what the hell you think that last bit means and why you think the "lit people" are dismissive of it, when e.g. Mel has continually stressed the importance of craft
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Nov 20, 2018 18:52
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answer the question OP: chernobyl kinsman posted:no i don't give a poo poo about indiana jones i want to know what you're on about w/r/t "lit people" disregarding dialogue as "workman's craft". i'm particularly interested in what the hell you think that last bit means and why you think the "lit people" are dismissive of it, when e.g. Mel has continually stressed the importance of craft e: ok nevermind come to the lit thread and let's discuss
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Nov 20, 2018 19:07
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see you in another week, botl
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who on earth would see a play instead of a movie
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