Scarlet Pimpernel

Hartmann was easy to read, and quite enjoyable; whereas Hobson was infuriating to read. Opening multiple dictionaries to figure out what he was saying was not an enjoyable experience (I owe him a paper cut). Hartmann's theories were easier to comprehend and seemed more straight foward. Hobson seems as if he is trying to make everything way too complicated on purpose.

Feeling the need for entertainment, I walk to the movie theaters. I go into the theater; however, it doesn't look like a normal movie theater, and there is no movie showing. It looks like amix between many of the lecture halls at QC. I know that my sister was coming to the movie, but I don't see her anywhere in the theater. I look at the people around me and realize that none of them are moving. Getting up to get a better look at the person behind me, I suddenly realize that her throat has been cut. I look around the theater and realize that everyone is dead, their throats cut in a similar manner.

I vaguely remember hiding with someone inside a bathroom stall. I don't remember who I was with or why we were hiding. The next part that I remember is that I am in class waiting for the lecture to begin. The hall is a mix between the classroom in PH and a lecture class I have in Kiely. More and more people begin to fill the room, and every time someone enters, it seems as if the chairs are rotating. The professor comes in and begins to lecture. I don't remember what he was talking about; all I remember is that he was wearing a giant bow tie (it had to be twice the size of his head). Suddenly, the classroom begins to move forward. The classroom is on a train, which promptly stops at various stations to let the students off. That's it.

Quite funny, after a string of horrors.

Reading the works of Victorian dream theorists was very interesting. They provide an insight into the ideology of the time. Even though their topics are mainly on the idea of dreaming, their style of writing, choice of word, and references, help the reader better understand the Victorian age.

I'm walking outside on a dirt road, which is next to a giant house. Trees surround the sides of the road. I get down on my knees and begin to look for clues to the murder that has just occurred. I don't remember actually seeing a body, but I knew there had been a murder.

"Given a few clues, we're used to supplying the whole context."
~James Richardson

Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea differ from each other in many different respects. Jane Eyre is a very Victorian model, as expressed in language, and sheer size of the volume; Wide Sargasso Sea is a very modern novel. The continuity of one story connects both of these novels which makes them very interesting when read together.

Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania and Her Court. 1908. Pen and ink and watercolor.

(I was thankful that there was an Arthur Rackham picture. I love his works!)

The dream of Charlemagne, France, 14th. From the Grandes Chroniques de France, Fol.139 recto.

Gawain extinguishing candle in anteroom where four knights are asleep; Gawain visiting the Daughter of Kind of Norgales. From "Le Roman de Lancelot du Lac", Northern France, early 14th century. MS. M.805, f.99.