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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:39 pm
Apparently there's an Oktoberfest event going on at school today later this afternoon. I totally didn't know about it until I noticed the sign today - which I've probably passed a billion times for the past few weeks since it's been up. sweatdrop So, hopefully the main activities will still be going on when I go back to school for my actual class - since I usually arrive a half hour or so before class. *shrugs* We'll see what I'll be able to get pictures of... xd
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:41 pm
*listens to Sleepy Hollow OST**imagines herself doing the ghostly dance like Emily from Corpse Bride does* whee
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:52 pm
*reads selection from "The Widow of Crescentius" by Felicia Hemans*
Some of these lines totally sound Halloween-ish. xd
"So wildly sweet, its notes might seem
Th' ethereal music of a dream,
A spirit's voice from worlds unknown,
Deep thrilling power in every tone!"
I totally thought of Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the sound of ghosts wailing.
"Rouse the dread passions in their course,
As tempests wake the billows' force!-"
Just the usual stormy weather that is connected with scary scenes.
"His full dark eye at times is bright
With strange and momentary light,
Whose quick uncertain flashes throw
O'er his pale cheek a hectic glow:
And oft his features and his air
A shade of troubled mystery wear"
Could be any famous Halloween figure really, but I thought of a vampire in particular. Like a Dracula. Mysterious, pale, and seem to be troubled - definitely sounds like a vampire.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:59 pm
Originally I was going to do my CR on just Oscar Wilde... but I might change my mind, since I would love to write a bit about the poem I read above. 3nodding Hmm...
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:04 pm
Sometimes it's interesting to fantasize on what the little biography summary snippet would say about me, if I published stuff and my selections of my works were included in an anthology like what I'm reading for my 19th Century Lit. class.
Maybe I should make a pretend one for the heck of it, lol.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:16 pm
These lines of "Indian Woman's Death-Song" sort of remind me of the river lullaby scene of the song "Deliver Us" from Prince of Egypt.
"... [R]oll, dark foaming stream, on to the better shore!
Some blessed fount amidst the woods of that bright land must flow,
Whose waters from my soul may lave the memory of this wo;
Some gentle wind must whisper there, whose breath may waft away
The burden of the heavy night, the sadness of the day."
Reminds of these lyrics of "Deliver Us":
"With the sting of the whip on my shoulder
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
Elohim, God on high
Can you hear your people cry:
Help us now
This dark hour...
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There's a land you promised us
Deliver us to the promised land...
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River, o river
Flow gently for me
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere
he can live free?
River, deliver him there..."
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:23 pm
I wish TekTek was all caught up with the latest items. *sighs* I want to go back through my wishlist and make sure I want the newest items truly or not. But due to TekTek not be updated very well, I can't do that. Bleh...
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:27 pm
*finishes reading the poems of one author for her 19th C. Lit. class* Our schedule didn't say which selections we had to read... and my teacher said she was going to e-mail us which pieces we need to read... but I don't know when she'll get around to doing that. So... I'll just read all of them. Hemans' pieces weren't that bad. I actually enjoyed reading them.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:46 pm
*looks up information to do the citation for the "Deliver Us" song* Patrick Stewart was Pharaoh Seti I?! I didn't realize that! I should get around to watching the movie again, so I can hear the voice again. Not sure why I didn't make the connection before.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:22 pm
So I decided to write my CR on the two poems I commented on earlier. xd At least I'm done with the whole CR aspect of my class now. I've done all 10 required CRs, and I've done over 20 responses. Probably will do more as my classmates continue posting theirs as the term goes by. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:24 pm
Every time I see the name "Susan B. Anthony" now, I don't think of the historical figure. No, I think of the character from Prison Break who went by that name. xd 
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:28 pm
"Their [Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning] literary friendship rapidly blossomed into romance, which they had to hide from her father, who had tacitly forbidden his children to marry."
Wow. Never heard of a father forbidding his children to marry before.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:29 pm
"Thanks, cruel mother, for that word, -"
Haha... wow. Even though this is a 19th Century piece of literature, that phrase totally sounds like something that would've been used in today's society. xd
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:43 pm
Anyway! Done with my 19th C. homework. And now to work on my Movies homework - just have to come up with two questions on the reading we have to do. *sighs*
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:48 pm
*listens to animation voice demo of Matthew Mercer's - boyfriend of JoEllen Elam* Very nice range of talent there. 3nodding
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