Hiii

[themeletor]

So, wow, long time no update.

Well, we (we being Pidge and mum and I) went to see Prisoner of Azkaban on the IMAX last night, and wow holy crap the dementors just-this-close-to made me pee myself. Jeez, like they weren't bad enough on the big screen, now they're to the right, to the left, and HOLY SHIZ RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AAH! And the hyppogriff scene? On IMAX? Whoah cool. So, although there were some things I definitely DIDN'T want to see 40-bajillion stories high (like, say, Aunt Marge's inflation or Stan Shunpike's acne - no matter how much I adore Lee Ingleby) the experience was overall WAY COOL. (I'm also now on the prowl for some sub!Draco, because the way he simpers kept giving me ideas)

And I drove home in the snow. Yay.

Lately we've been discussing existentialism in AP English, and I think you all (most, some... well, the demented ones among you) know what that means... LATE CHRISTMAS EVE FIC! Sometime. When I have time. Which I don't right now, because I have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (wow really good play and I adore reading the part of Guildenstern), The Picture of Dorian Grey (can you say "excuse to watch Wilde"?), and The First Salute (whee my USH term paper is about the Royal Navy) to read, along with rereading Sense and Sensibility for Jane Austen class (go Janeites!) and remembering to either italicize or underline the titles of books and plays.

But there's always econ class.

Oh, and as a last note:
Bertrice Small is not that good of a writer. Hm.

Comments

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hp3's out but my living room really doesn't live up to imax's standards >.<
I nearly fell off of the couch I was sitting on when I saw Ioan in Wilde, wasn't expecting him at all. Too bad about him having the world's most unflattering hair cut. It's crazy how much Jude Law's character is like Dorian Grey, but it works so nicely. *loves*

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

It's crazy how much Jude Law's character is like Dorian Grey Let's think about why, hm? XD All authors use people from their own lives as character bases... Wilde was just more flagrant about it.

He was pretty flagrant about a lot of things... 's why I love him.

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should start using the english language instead of something else and hoping everyone would understand.... but what I mean by my comment is interesting it was that they chose to do that.
And I'm not entirely sure that Dorian was completely based off of Bosie because Dorian was published the same year as Wilde met him, I don't know actual dates but they were both in 1981. I'm sure there was some overlap with the tantrums, but usually it takes one longer than a year to write a novel, yes? Plus Dorian (to me at least) comes across as a vicious bastard, and it seems that Wilde wouldn't make his love that gross of a person.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Ah blargh. I could always be an IDIOT... No, yeah, I knew he met Bosie after PoDG, I was just... dumb, and...dumb. What is interesting is how alike Bosie and Dorian are, being that he did meet Bosie -after- writing Dorian, and though I agree that Bosie was not so bad as Dorian would appear to be, I do think they had similar aspects, in youth, beauty, and being fantastically immature. And from what I gleaned from Wilde and the commentaries, Oscar and Bosie stopped actually having sex with eachother decently early on, and had more of a teacher/student, though very intimate, relationship. All in all, I don't know. I do know that it was technically Ioan's character, John Gray, who served as the inspiration for the novel. And clearly, timelinewise, Bosie could not have been a model for Dorian. But... hm.

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

You're not an idiot - 98% of the human race can't understand what I'm talking about most of the time!
Bosie could have served as a bit of a model in the later versions of PoDG, because it was published about two more times until it was finally what we're reading now. It seems too crazy-romantic for Wilde to write a novel, and then meet the main character only to fall madly in love with in. Still, weirder things have happened.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Why is he dead-- I would have a word with that man.

But the latest stuff he added/edited was in 91, unless I'm being retarded again. I just think, psychologically speaking, if he has enough affinity for a personage to create it as a character, then if he did come across someone similar it would be the person most likely to garner his attentions.

*babblebabble*

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find exact dates on the publications. *shrugs* It just said 91, so I presumed that it was the original publishing thing.
Since we're babbling, I'm going to beat the living daylights out of those sensors and whoever decided that it should be less gay. Stupid Victorian snobbish censors ... *fumes*

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

No, it was published first in Lippincott's Monthly in 90, then censored/edited for publication in novel form by 91, though he met Bosie between the two editions.

There was the whole scandalous illegal thing...

And they did wind up using it (PoDG manuscript) as one of the nails in the coffin for his case.

But yes. Stupid snobbish Victorians... or whatnot. XD