h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The mutual appreciation society hits the net However, I would like to point out that when being thrown out of the best pubs and clubs I have almost invariably been in the company of one known here as Morgan. I'm off to link you from my page right now

Kewl

So I guess this means we can be in and out of each other's pages all day long... seems reasonable.

You can do that anyway Just hit the name in any thread and you're there. You can also join threads by hitting them on my page.

BTW apologies if I'm teaching granmaw to suck eggs

And if you open the links in a new window, it sure makes life easier keeping track of where you were and who you are talking to.

Howdy, Morgan. Just thought I'd pop in and leave a bit of my own egg sucking advice

--Zmrzlina

Zmrzlina, I'm always in need of advice. Comes from being perpetually bemused. I used your technique to visit your page - and enjoyed the Charlotte Smith poem (but wasn't she 18th century?). Thanks for visiting.

Yes she was. I realized the mistake soon after posting, but you can't go in and edit journal entries, so rather than call attention to a mistake I figured no one would catch, I let it slide.

I'm impressed. I didn't think anyone outside that Romantic Period literature class I took a few semesters back would have read Charlotte Smith.

Though...H2G2 is a British based site...Oooohhh...I wish I could fix that!! Oh sure...now you have gone and given me something to obsess about. I'll have to find someone to take it out on.

Well, despite my less than stunning performance in my finals, my degree WAS in English literature, and the Romantics was one of the subjects that did get a little more of my attention than some (like Chaucer - which I really could NOT get out of bed for )

My apologies for setting up obsessive feelings, and may I suggest that BluesSlider is the ideal guy to take such feelings out on. He likes that sort of thing Be brutal with him...

Well thanks, bud I don't think Zmrzlina needs any encouragement judging by what's going on in another place

I only had a teeny bit of Chaucer in a core class on British authors. My professor read "Canterbury Tales" in middle English, though, and that made it great fun.

The best thing we read in the Romantics class was Plumptre's "Something New." The worst...and I am sure to take some abuse for this bit of blasphemy...Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria." I BSed my way throught that paper.

And speaking of BS...he has his hands full at the moment.

I never really took to Coleridge either. I enjoyed the Romantics chiefly for the way they evidently got drunk on language - but they did tend to go on and on and on. I remember being presented with "The Prelude" by Wordsworth and going, "This is a poem? You're kidding me... it's a bloody book!" and having it pointed out that I was only looking at Book One.

After a while I found I was moving more towards Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas for the same intoxication with language, without having to spend a whole week reading one piece...

Ohh...vindication! An Englishman who is not a fan of Coleridge *and* who was put off by "The Prelude"! My professor for that Romantics class lead us to believe only silly Americans didn't go mad for those two.

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that my first exposure to Dylan Thomas came from an American television series many years back...an impossibly silly take-off on a fairy tale..."Beauty and the Beast." The "Beast" used to quote Thomas all the time and since I was madly in love with this character, I decided I was in love with Thomas, too. I still enjoy Thomas, but I have outgrown TV escapism.

These days I am so bogged down in reading for poli sci classes that I haven't time for writers drunk on language. I will remedy that this summer when I have two and a half weeks of wandering all by myself in Europe

--Zmrzlina