Wow, it is interesting how the poem was presented in the images one might see in his mind. That was T.S. Elliot's voice -- perhaps he intended the poem to be read more gloomily than I had percieved it to be.
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The blog takes its name from the eponymous Wall Street copyist from Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener." The motto is taken from Bartleby's famous reply: "I would prefer not to."
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Irving (1820) Rip Van Winkle - Irving (1820) The Minister's Black Veil - Hawthorne (1836) The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe (1841) The Masque of the Red Death - Poe (1842) The Tell-Tale Heart - Poe (1843) The Birth-Mark - Hawthorne (1843) William Wilson - Poe (1845) Ethan Brand - Hawthorne (1850) The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne (1850) The House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne (1851) Bartleby the Scrivener - Melville (1853) Billy Budd - Melville (1886) A Retrieved Reformation - O. Henry (1903) Ethan Frome - Wharton (1911) The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald (1925) Neighbour Rosicky - Cather (1932) The Crucible - Miller (1953) The Enormous Radio - Cheever (1953) Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury (1953) The Swimmer - Cheever (1964)
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ReplyDeleteWow, it is interesting how the poem was presented in the images one might see in his mind. That was T.S. Elliot's voice -- perhaps he intended the poem to be read more gloomily than I had percieved it to be.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't read the whole thing though....did he?
ReplyDeleteIt didn't sound like it to me. There was no mention of drowning...
ReplyDelete...or prophets...or Hamlet....or mermaids....
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That IS read more gloomily than I had thought it would be as well.
Gloomy? that was down right depressing! That amimation was very stange, with all the odd shapes and the morphing.
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