Saturday, January 24, 2009
The Nursery School Guide to Politics, Part I
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
MORAL: All politicians divide, with some overlap, into four categories: those who fiddle away doing nothing, those who pretend to do impossible things, those who mock everyone else from the sidelines, and those who will steal your silverware if they get the chance.
Ah, good, this gives me time to get another copy of Villette. I finished it in a late-night spurt that took me to 3am, and then gave it to a friend who was passing through before a transatlantic flight. There certainly is a lot to say about it, starting with the fascinating unreliability of the narrator herself.
There are indeed some interesting things about the way the narrator is handled here, along with this omnipresent theme of surveillance.
+JMJ+
I'm still in the first half of Villette myself. It has been an interesting read so far, and I just may get a Reading Diary entry out of it, too!
Enbrethiliel
I'll keep any eye out for it!
+JMJ+
By the way, that link about Iceland's faeries is the best thing I've read all week! (Eat your heart out, Charlotte Bronte!) I must confess, though, that the best part was the indignant commenter who took out her frustration at an ostensibly secular government's decision in favour of the supernatural by insulting every other commenter who shared a personal eerie encounter. LOL!
It is a bit funny how quickly that escalated.