I would’ve love to be in your class, thank you for clarifying and also shedding light on how we neglect in the education system a “right interpretation”
I’m looking forward to reading this now! I needed to know the political and historical context you explained. It sounds a wee bit like “the Troubles” when you put it like all that; and it sounds like a fun bit of mischief! Thank you.
Is it possible this short story were part of a film or a film script?, because in one of the paragraphs it’s mentioned that ‘a beach was close to that Hollywood hospital off the camera’.., “camera” term which the writer uses more than one time in this tale. Therefore, it’s made me wonder if that short story were like a chapter of a film or a tv series that we were watching in the tv or in the film screen.
That line references the hospital the story takes place in and how many TV shows at the time used the hospital's front in their shots. 'Off camera' means outside the view that the TV shows usually show.
I have read this story many times over about 10 years, and it has ALWAYS made my eyes wetter. This analysis does the same and I feel glad to have heard it. Please note: my eyesight is as ‘unreliable’ as Hempel’s narrator, so this vid warms my soul, thank you, Adam.
Your own understanding and attachment to reality is getting in the way. It is also about perception of what is real and what isn't and that isn't static or true for everyone. I know people who absolutely say the stars keep them up at night.
These are fantastic introductions to these concepts, Adam. I think Frye is criminally underappreciated. This video in particular touches on something so simple that most folks just take it for granted. If you haven't heard of Jonathan Pageau and Richard Rohlin's Universal History series here on YT, I think you'd find it interesting and enjoyable. We are going to start a great books series at my parish and I'm going to recommend your series as a good primer. Thanks for putting up these videos. Nathan
I'm new to Joyce, but this story left me thinking it vacant. I guess it's supposed to be a description how some young dude fell sort of out-of-love with the first chick. Oh well why would anyone care about this? Cute language?
Hi, Thank you for the vid Could you please explain this part to me: Gone was his navel, and what, Neddy thought, would the roving hand, bed-checking one’s gifts at 3 a.m., make of a belly with no navel, no link to birth, this breach in the succession?
mr. Crowley, ı am the first class in english department but ı dont like literature because ı donna get the poems so what can ı do pls reply this comment
This was an awesome summary/lecture! Helped me so much! The fact that the narrator could not even remember or picture how his parents looked showed how detached he was from them. Almost like he was never raised or loved which is why he was so unhappy and DISCONNECTED from the real world.
If you're able to overlook the distasteful attitudes of Spenser, I think the Faerie Queene is just a really good story. There are so many underrated storylines and characters (especially strong female characters like Britomart the knight), I really think it should be more popular.
I was brought up near where he lived and wrote gullivers travels, the ruins of the cottage he used on the Ballinderry River is still there and overgrown in the forest. Because he said the Irish ate their own babies, so as a kid I took a shit and piss in his cottage and said 'I bet you wish the Irish ate this shitting baby!' Beautiful hidden corner of the world where people have always been.
