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Post by limbowoman on Sept 16, 2007 0:45:20 GMT -5
Are you going to go on and on and on about how it applies to modern day, Fox, because if you are, I'm gouging your eyes out myself...
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Sept 16, 2007 1:42:25 GMT -5
...can I keep one?
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 16, 2007 9:16:11 GMT -5
IT DOES!!!!! And I would like to see you try... I will drop arse before you could even get anything near my eyes. Either way they are still very well put together
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Post by Aindel on Sept 16, 2007 15:50:54 GMT -5
Homer was not Greek Tragedy. That's epic poetry. Completely different. I love Homer with all my heart and soul. But Oedipus must go. As must The Oresteae. Except possibly the Eumenides, because it's kinda like Ancient Greek Law & Order.
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Post by Clover on Sept 16, 2007 16:56:53 GMT -5
Oresteae and Agammemnon we read in Classics last year, as well as the Illead and the Odyssey. And a whole bunch of other ones---- I don't feel too guilty in confessing I did not enjoy them; Ancient Literature just doesn't appeal to me. I'll read it if I have to, but my preferred scope is somewhat more modern. Candide, by Voltaire, Baudelaire and de Sade, Eliot, Wilde, Nabokov and Kafka and Garcia-Marquez. Those are my canons of literature.
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Post by bubbles on Sept 16, 2007 17:47:14 GMT -5
Ah yes. I was subjected to Phedre last year, after slogging through Hippolytus in First Year. That was evil. This was after being forced into Tartuffe, which gave me the impression that French classic comedy really isn't any better. Though, I suppose it was necessary in order to get to the point we're at today, with all of the French Canadian playwrights we have. Without all that crap throughout history (because the French Absurdist movement didn't exactly improve anything, either), we'd never have the glory that is Les Belles-Soeurs. But perhaps I'm a bit partial, since we put on that show last season here at school. Phedre is to litterature what piss is to gastronomy. When the frenchmen figured they wanted to make a tragedy, they did like the communists. The base idea was wonderful, but the way they did it was wrong, stupid and ugly.
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Post by Clover on Sept 16, 2007 17:57:48 GMT -5
Wow, Pat. That was pretty harsh.
Awesome allegory, though.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 16, 2007 19:03:54 GMT -5
sadly the harshness is true...
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 16, 2007 21:25:26 GMT -5
*Pets* That's better, Fox... and yes Melon, if I gouge out eyes, I'll give you one...
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Post by Aindel on Sept 17, 2007 19:02:19 GMT -5
I feel the need to share that allegory with virtually everyone in my program.
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Post by Trey on Sept 18, 2007 18:26:15 GMT -5
I agree with Fox though, I do like Greek Tragedy.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 19, 2007 14:50:46 GMT -5
Thanks
Like I said I would recommend not going near my face Limbo. I like ya, but that wont me I wont take your tongue. I always need new specimens for class
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 20, 2007 22:19:26 GMT -5
You'd have to get past my teeth first... plus are you sure you want MY tongue..?
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Post by bubbles on Sept 22, 2007 14:57:39 GMT -5
Are you guys talking about making out or sumthin? D;
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Sept 22, 2007 21:05:02 GMT -5
OWNZED!
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