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jenks replied to the thread shakespeare.I really like CoE - I know I bang on about this but they are texts to be performed and CoE really delivers on stage - snappy dialogue... -
But couldn’t it be he was in a hurry or something or was asked to rewrite at the last minute? When Paul McCartney does a shit album we...
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth to be corrected by @jenks!
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By the way, The Counterfeiters by Gide was excellent, I don't know why I've never read him before. Somehow a hole in my knowledge... who...
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jenks replied to the thread shakespeare.Lear is the eye. Titus, well, I’ll leave Benny to find that out.
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jenks reacted to IdleRich's post in the thread Kid Charlemagne's book club and the use of trigger warnings in media with
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Yeah it's always the Crying of lot 49, or the old man and the sea... why not read a real book? A Farewell To Arms is my favourite, that... -
jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.+1 for Mao II
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jenks replied to the thread Kid Charlemagne's book club and the use of trigger warnings in media.Does nobody put the reading in these days? One short story and The Old Man and the Sea - an old gcse set text? I’ll save you the...
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Re-read Orwell's essay on Dickens last night and forgot the emphasis he places on Dickens as a moralist who's totally cynical about...
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Nabokov - Lectures on Literature
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jenks replied to the thread Kid Charlemagne's book club and the use of trigger warnings in media.Went to The Years last week. People keeping on fainting and the show stopped. The discussion in the press is whether the trigger warning...
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jenks replied to the thread Silent Films - do we watch them?.I showed my Y10s a Harold Lloyd the other day -Safety Last- as I was explaining the idea of silent movies to them. They’re not an...
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jenks replied to the thread An Actor's Requiem.Olivier in Lear springs to mind along with his final role in Jarman’s War Requiem. At the time there was a big fuss over the fact he’d...