Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 3:36 PM BSTI some times wander what my life would have been like if I'd followed onto an English degree.
Just think you could have been a housewife like me!
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I was thinking more a deeply embittered english teacher with a bottle of whiskey in his desk. Similar to my life now but with more holidays.
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 3:40 PM BSTI was thinking more a deeply embittered english teacher with a bottle of whiskey in his desk. Similar to my life now but with more holidays.
Ah, my dream.
Only a bottle of... um. Coke.
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 3:40 PM BSTI was thinking more a deeply embittered english teacher with a bottle of whiskey in his desk. Similar to my life now but with more holidays.
Take out the word 'teacher' and that's still my life!
I want to be Professor Tripp in Wonder Boys.
I've almost become a fully qualified teacher a couple of times. It's my fall back plan and whenever I get a bit lazy with the writing I always think I'll have to become a teacher and that thought spurs me on. I know a few teachers and not many recommend it.
English Lit is a funny old thing, I hated alot of the stuff we had to read. But I appreciated the critical literate skills it gave me, which I only got from understanding why I hated them.
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2009, 3:32 PM BSTLiterature should be taught at schools and the move to stop teaching complete Shakespeare plays is tragic.
Agreed, Shakespeare was the author I most enjoyed at school. I do recall some other books I enjoyed, such as Lord of the Flies and The Go-Between, but on the whole examiners are rubbish at setting books that are going to engage children. I mean what is the average schoolkid going to get out of unravelling obscure shit like The Wasteland or reading Hardy's tin-eared moping over his dead wife? My brother, the poor bastard, had to do The Wreck of the Deutschland.
Everyone loves Lord of the Flies.
SamnEric always made me laugh.
Could you put it in critique that sounds ace and far to good for a BBC slushpile.
That does sound like a funny idea.
I never got anywhere with my 1984 pastiches.
The world is a 1984 pastiche.
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2009, 12:15 PM BSTHa!
I haven't liked any Dickens.
I love all of Dickens books. They are so descriptive of the period.