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"Rumpel" <rumpelteazer@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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used to be a hotel where they have
>>>>retained a beauty of a staircase and started to plot.
>>>
>>>The Waterstones on New Street?
>>
>>
>> WOW!!!!
>>
>
> How can you miss that place if you really love books? It got less books
> than the big Waterstones, but it got this great atmosphere! Spend a lot of
> time there.
I was just surprised anyone picked up my rather vague reference. 8))
I haven't been to B'ham for years and years, but I have visited the W'ton
Waterstones lately. It just isn't the same as the marble halls in Brum.
It is sad but I find that unless I need a book I much prefer to browse old
bookshops than new ones.
>
>> Love that place! A real bookshop in
>>
>>>comparison to the "book galleries" (some tables with some books on it,
>>>lots of space, not a lot of shelves).
Oh yes, and the dreadful 'Buget Book' places? Which are useful for sudden
finds but.... Just a minute. There are some people who, if they didn't buy a
pretty coffee table book, wouldn;t buy a book at all, so I must stop being
critical.
It's like the theme CDs of say ' nicest tunes to whistle from Rachmaninov'?
Better some people whistle the pretty bits than buy a whole symphony and
never play it because parts of it are boring.
Believe me, I know someone who said just that.
>>
>> Just a minute... Hold on.. You MISS Wolverhampton????
>>
>
> It would be worse if I said that I miss Walsall,
Whoooo!!!! I do believe we have talked before. 8))
but yes, I kind of miss
> Wolverhampton. Somewhere on the internet there is a webcam which shows
> Registry, a couple of weeks ago I saw one of my teachers walk by!
That must be the most boring outside webcam in the UK, though not if you
like watching buses. It shows part of the uni, does it? I never knew that.
But I am a brummie by birth and have only been up here for thirty years so I
can be excused not knowing my way about. 8(
>
> I just miss campus life and university.
I understand then, and you are forgiven for missing Wolverhampton. 8)
>
> With a bit of luck I'm going to go to Birmingham for a midweek during the
> summer holidays, certainly going to visit Wlv. take loads of pictures, go
> to the UGC (to see if ticket-man and popcorn-man are still there)
This is nice. I still retain memories of Birmingham from back in the early
1950s and think of things like the Old Bullring 'handy carrier' lady and the
escape artist who rolled about, would all up in chains.
one still with the ugly plastic sculpture on
> Centenary (?) square which went up on flames 1.5 years ago.
Who did that? An art critic?
>
>>
>>
>>>I already made floorplans to build both Walsall and Wolverhampton Halls
>>>of
I made the snapshots to show a
> friend of mine who did the same course and went to WLV as well, so she
> knows what I mean with it. Have to make some better green walls for
> Walsall though.
Aren't green walls supposed to soothe the soul, or something like that? Did
you feel soothed when you were there?
>
>>>Now back to Jane Austen!
>>>
>
> Doing English 19th Century this semester,
Envy!
start in 1.5 weeks, so already
> reading ahead. Tackled Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell today
BAW!!! No Envy!!! Sympathy!!
'Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion....'
I like that line, though, and that is probably all I do like about Blake.
Sorry. 8( I prefer more robust poets.
You have to have a good grounding in... Oh dear, what's the word, not
metaphysics... Blake was vary strange. He can be read on so may levels. I
suppose you can say that about any decent author/poet.
Oh, but if you want to start a serious fight, then mention Ruskin and I will
explode and tear off your head.
and
> started Pride and Prejudice, hopefully can finish that this week and start
> on Frankenstein. I am not looking forward to Wuthering Heights though,
> it's always been my most problematic book.
>
I am not sure now if I do envy you. I have always read and enjoyed novels up
to 19th century but if I 'had' to study them would I lose the pleasure?
Example... I was reading Peacock's 'Headlong Hall' once and laughing, and
attracted the attention of 'an expert'. he knew his stuff, I will give him
that, but insisted on explaining 'why' this was put in such a way' and why
Peacock, said such and such... and I can no longer read these bits without
thinking about him and scowling.
Yes, I know sometimes you do need references about historical facts which
might be obscure to the modern reader (Swift is a devil for that) but that
is not the same as cutting right into the style of writing. I don't really
care if this chapter is just to build up tension. I just want to read it and
feel tense.
Do you see what I mean? I am an uneducated happy reader. 8)
I like Frankenstein. Hollywood has completely spoiled that book.
Granny.
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