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[clo_again]

And the prize for bad timng goes to... may I have the envelope please... clo's wisdom teeth!

Yes, wisdom tooth coming through. Minor ouch right now. More ouch is googling 'wisdom teeth' and getting twenty million "OMG YOU WILL DIE IN HORRIBLE PAINFUL WAYS IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR WISDOM TEETH REMOVED!!!! LIKE, RIGHT NOW!!!!!eleventy-one!!!" results. For someone who hates dentists as much as me? Yeah, not such a nice thing to hear.

So I'm going to take my usual approach to anything I don't like, which is to ignore it in hopes it'll go away. Hey, it sometimes works.

Also, being unaccomplished today, though I did finish Great Expectations. Unfortunately my great expectations of an exciting ending to make slogging through the whole book worthwhile went unfulfilled. Reading the first page of a Christmas Carol, I'm already not inspired with huge and unconctrollable excitement, though the entire paragraph dedicated to discussing doornails and coffin nails was at least funny.

Everyone knows the Muppet version is better than reading the book anyway.

Clo

P.S. My muses have deserted me. I'm going to see if I can't lasso the little bastards into working later on because it's about time they came back.

Comments

[lillyv.livejournal.com]

If I remember, part of the problem with "Great Expectations" is that Dickens changed the ending. Originally it was supposed to be an unhappy ending (i.e. he doesn't get the girl), which fit more with the theme of the book. But then a couple of his friends suggested he write a happier ending, because in the Victorian era you just didn't DO unhappy endings. So, we get a sudden, sappy and all-together unsatisfying ending.

Meh.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I was expecting huge, dramatic things, everything to end with a bang... and instead it was sort of a sad little *fizzlesplutter* of an ending. I think an unhappy ending would've been much more satisfying. -_-

But at least it proves even Dickens made mistakes. Even though I wish he hadn't taken nearly five hundred pages to do it.

[lillyv.livejournal.com]

Well, the important thing to remember is that Dickens was a writer of sensational "popcorn" stories (as my senior seminar teacher calls stuff like that) who got paid by the word.

But, as I was taught in college, if you only write sensational stories for entertainment, you will never be a REAL writer! Never! NEVER! NEEEEEEEVER!

Soooooooo much hope for the future. Even though I hate Dickens.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I love that description. :D I hadn't even considered the 'paid by the word' factor; suddenly all those pointless chapters make a lot more sense.

Yes but do we ever really pay attention to what we learned in college? ;-) Though applying that definition to some of the books out there right now, I guess there are a lot of modern writers who can't be 'real' writers. Hopefully I'll be there to watch the carnage when someone tries to tell them that.

I'm realising I hate Dickens too. Which makes me feel kind of stupid since I chose to study the Victorians soley based on the fact he was on the reading list. -_-

[e-goddess.livejournal.com]

Just to add a counter-point to all the "OMG YOU WILL DIE..." stuff, so long as your wisdom teeth aren't hurting you or making your other teeth go all crooked, you DON'T have to have them removed. I had two up and two down, and many years ago my dentist decided just to pull the top two, and I still have the bottoms. They don't bother me, so they're staying put. Since then, other dentists have recommended pulling them, but when I ask if it HAS to be done, they concede that it doesn't. *kicks greedy dentists*

I'm with you on Great Expectations, by the way. I'd much rather it just ended unhappily. Then again, I suppose even a great author like Dickens had to compromise sometimes.

[clo.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear. *sigh of relief* I really *really* don't like dentists. I think they're taught by sadists in dentist school, they seem to love torturing their patients so much.

That's very true; people probably would be more likely to buy the book with a happy ending. It's only us going back and stamping our feet and wailing over how a happy ending doesn't really fit. Though it does give me the tiniest bit of satisfaction to think that perhaps even Dickens had problems with ending things, like I do. :)