The new desktop is up and running. It is currently sitting at the foot of my bed (mattress) on the floor, and the experience is quite satisfying
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Get that puppy off the floor ASAP! Dust = death for computers, and floor = the home of dust!
You 'decided that it was finally time to have a look at your marks,' eh? More like, 'my dear friend Michael kindly showed me how to view my marks.' I demand credit where credit is due!!
Oooh, exciting! My first question-instinct is "do you like it?" but that would be unfairly simplistic or possibly cruelly open-ended. Also, I assume from your having used it in two essays that you do, so it would also be pointless.
Now then. I suppose I could ask you what purpose was served by your inclusion of it in the essays, or what aspects of it you talked about... what I'd really like to know, though, first of all, is: do you think that having it analysed in a course setting was more fruitful than otherwise, and why (i.e. what sorts of things were discussed in class)? We can go from there.
I did find it useful (my Fantasy course was quite good). The more postmodern aspects of the text were better understood with a bit of guidance. I'm referring to the idea presented by the professor that the eclectic and ironic elements foregrounded the textuality of the story and helped to make it an actual plot point. This went on to the idea that the characters know, at some points, that they're in a story, and that their victory requires them to break out of it
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Interesting; I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm not generally a fan of the necessity-of-breaking-the-rules idea, so I wouldn't put it in those terms, but I like the idea as it plays out in the book - a reworking when the old way won't cut it
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The main textual justification for the breaking-the-rules idea comes from Schmendrick's statement that, while the human characters are all part of the story, the unicorn is real and outside of it. Also, there is the atypical resolution of the climax, where Lir halts the Red Bull for a while by telling it to stop and the princess, in a sense, heals the prince and saves the day. It's unusual because beating the Rud Bull isn't about fighting it and defeating it through violence, it's about opposing it and refusing to give into despair. As the book says, the Bull conquers, but it never fights
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You 'decided that it was finally time to have a look at your marks,' eh? More like, 'my dear friend Michael kindly showed me how to view my marks.' I demand credit where credit is due!!
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Now then. I suppose I could ask you what purpose was served by your inclusion of it in the essays, or what aspects of it you talked about... what I'd really like to know, though, first of all, is: do you think that having it analysed in a course setting was more fruitful than otherwise, and why (i.e. what sorts of things were discussed in class)? We can go from there.
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