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[gothwalk]

I have unplanned time coming up this weekend. I have no idea what I should do with it. Some gardening is in order, weather permitting. I should fetch bookshelves for the study from Argos. And there's plenty of writing I should do. Perhaps I should try some of this sleeping thing, too.

The OU stuff is finally getting underway. inannajones was good enough to pick me up the required books for my Introduction to Humanities course yesterday - three novels, and the Good Arts Study Guide. I'm already halfway through one of the novels - The Wide Sargasso Sea. It's going to be interesting working on a novel again from an analytical point of view; I haven't done so since school, but I can already feel the old circuits cutting in, starting from "Why wouldn't I read this book if it wasn't on the list?", which is almost always the case, and going from there. I've usually found it important to be more precise rather than less with my reasons for not reading the book otherwise - not just "I don't like it", but "I don't like it because it's set in an area and a culture I have little interest in, and written in a style I find to be largely dull." Once that's out of the way, I can get on with working with the book.

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[cheerfulcynic.livejournal.com]

You've put you finger on one of the things I like about formal education. It puts you on paths you might otherwise not tread, enabling my horizons to spread in directions that they wouldn't normally go.

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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. I don't think I'd ever have glanced at this book otherwise, and I don't actually like it. I'm almost certain it's good for me to read something I don't like every once in a while, though.

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[ailbhe]

Did you like Jane Eyre?