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[unconcluded]

Preparing for the AP Lit test--reviewing books for the open-essay. Realizing once again just how perfect and beautiful The Color Purple is. Anyone else read it and feel similarly, or dissimilarly

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[_moratorium_]

I love me some Color Purple. That book came at the perfect time for me. It was the first time I ever saw my spirituality expressed in words. Also, I read it about two or three months before I came out and at the time I wanted to deny that that book had anything to do with lesbians. Then after I came out, I went back and reread certain parts and went "aww yay!" :D

[samwhise]

explain to me how you ignored the lesbians in the color purple

[_moratorium_]

It wasn't so much that I ignored them as I tried hard not to acknowledge that I was like them.

[unconcluded]

Yes--the spirituality thing. Yes a lot to that. It wasn't the first place I'd discovered my feelings on the subject there on a page in so many words, but yes.

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"Lately I feel like me and God make love just fine, anyhow."

[riles298]

Ah, the subtle language of the Color Purple.

Which is spelled wrong.

[unconcluded]

(the first thing) Yes. I'm all about the buttons...

(the second thing) Oh come come--I'm sure one must give a little for the sake of rEvolution. I mean, the Queen's English ought very well to be French.

...

A thought, at least.

[riles298]

(the first thing) That took me entirely too long to get.

(the second things) And 'American' English ought very well to be the step before intelligent speech. Ughrugh, mrgh borp. Also, the extent of my French is asking where the paper bin is, saying my name and that I do not speak French thankyouverymuch, and (of course) the infamous line from Lady Marmalade.

I can speak quite well in proper English, I like to think.

[unconcluded]

(the first thing) Tee hee hee indeed.

(the second thing) I merely referred to the course of English history i.e. 1066 and the subsequent reign of the French for years to come, and thereby created a thing analagous to the breaking of the colonies from our dearest Brittania. All implying the progression of dialects i.e. spelling i.e. color vs colour. Just to clarify.

[thatpapercrane]

you mentioned freedom. someone once said something along the lines of... "guarded walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."

i believe freedom is attainable no matter what the situation. to me, freedom is a state of mind...

good luck on your ap lit test.

[unconcluded]

This is a Brittany, I see?

'Someone' sounds familiar--one of the Romantics, I suspect. Shelley, or Coleridge, perhaps... A good little bit, anyway. You should study Zen, with the looks of your comment.

Et merci beaucoup, ma copain.

[riles298]

Lovelace. "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and tired take that for an hermitage..." I've always felt that it's not the same without the next line and a half.

He was British, you know.

[unconcluded]

It is more cutting with the final bit and causes one to, at the same time, both laugh and reassure oneself internally that point made has absolutely no basis in themself.

Brits are very fine for the literary.

[crimson_swan]

i loved color purple, but it never struck me the way some books strike like lightning, quick and full of energy. That book slowly oozed through to my thoughts.

You were very cute at prom, btw. ^_^ It was lovely seeing you there.

[unconcluded]

The Color Purple wasn't a lighning book for me either--oozing is a very good way of putting it. It was really just an affirmation of things good, a smal expansion upon their scope, but really just a long and well said affirmation.

And thank you--you were very cute yourself. :)

[verystrangename]

I shall compare freedom to a Cadbury Egg. Sugary gooey goodness is encased in a thin coating of hard chocolate-like substance. You'd think the sugary gooey goodness would be too sweet -- and besides, it has this yellow-orange color in it that is supposed to be like yolk and is actually really a bit gross if you think about it for too long -- but the hard chocolate case somehow makes the gooeyness seem less sweet. So in a way, the hard chocolate case is a tasty dose of freedom, because...um. It contains and enriches the gooey sweetness that is a human self. Yes.

Did I mention that Cadbury Eggs have pretty wrappers?

And also, I haven't yet read The Color Purple.

[verystrangename]

P.S Now that I've eaten a Cadbury Egg.

And does anyone else get the feeling of belonging in all the world/universe as opposed to a particular space and time.

I feel as if I belong in the moment and that the moment does not exist. Only existence can be measured by a clock, after all.

[unconcluded]

Do you mean, existence can only be measured by a clock, or that the only thing that can be measured by a clock is existence?

I love uncovering the spiritual atheist in myself/others i.e. yourself. The first part of that qualification being the thing uncovered, I mean.

And I am glad for your Cadbury-Egg-ness. I am glad for my done-with-AP-language-test-ness, which has been followed by piano sounds and news of mass social movements on the rise thank you very much BBC News Correspondents. I am also quite caught up by the stirrings of protest/revolution, however violently I dislike anarchist sentiments.

Anyway.

[verystrangename]

Either works, although I meant that the only thing that can be measured by a clock is existence. Hmm...does the first one work? I wonder. I suppose existence can also be measured by thought, but then we would have to assume that thought is a common thing.

And oui, uncovering things is often quite amusing. How was the AP test-ness? Or more specifically, how did you do on the AP test? We all know that the ness of an AP test is rather rotten and would look like old sushi were we capable of seeing it.