The Prelude.

[Corpsey]

If I was you my move now would be to literally paste the whole prelude in here, page after page, totally drown and ruin the thread.

 

[luka]

I've already got third and Craner doing their utmost to sabotage it

 

[Corpsey]

They'll get bored. Suspendedreason seems to be along for the ride.

 

[Corpsey]

Craner can't pour scorn on this, isn't he reading the western canon?

 

[luka]

Even while mine eye hath moved o'er many a league
Of shining water, gathering as it seemed
Through every hair-breadth in that field of light
New pleasure like a bee among the flowers.

 

[luka]

Search results for query: Giddy

mid that giddy bliss
Which, like a tempest, works along the blood
And is forgotten;

 

[yyaldrin]

really looking forward to summer cos of this long poem.

 

[Corpsey]

If I'd done what Luka told me to by now I'd have read David Copperfield, Proust and The Prelude.

 

[Corpsey]

Imagine my cast iron confidence approaching women, knowing I've read Proust, what can they possibly do to tear down a walking Library of Alexandria?

 

[luka]

Not even I managed to,read the Proust in the end

 

[luka]

It's funny when you're a little kid you want the experimental weird stuff then when you get older you want the classics, the stodgy bread pudding of English literature

 

[Corpsey]

You want wisdom don't you, for life to be redeemed by comprehension before it's too late.

Whereas once you wanted thrills

 

[Corpsey]

I'm eternally qauvering in the foothills of Ulysses, Proust, Anna Karenina, Moby Dick... The big boys. Then I retreat, chastened, to the rolling flatlands of literary biographies.

 

[Corpsey]

Rolling flatlands?

 

[luka]

You want wisdom don't you, for life to be redeemed by comprehension before it's too late.

Whereas once you wanted thrills

You also want grounding, a sense of the history of the thing and how it all connects and develops

 

[luka]

Rolling flatlands?

Why not? Rolling fields is a common expression.

 

[Corpsey]

I think it's hills that make a landscape rolling.

 

[Corpsey]

You also want grounding, a sense of the history of the thing and how it all connects and develops

Yeah I'm actually getting that classic thing of becoming more and more interested in history as I get older.

You want there to be a world bigger than your life, the limitations of which are becoming more and more obvious as your possibilities narrow.

 

[craner]

If you spent as much time reading these books as talking about not reading them, you might have made some progress Corpsey.

 

[Corpsey]

So I theorise anyway.

It's also that I want to know a lot so I can be an impressive adult rather than a pathetic failure who only just got out of bed.