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posted by [personal profile] ladyslvr at 11:33pm on 01/09/2004
School starts Friday for me. Thursday for the students, but all my classes are MWF.

The syllabus for Lit is finished -- at least until I change it. It even says on the syllabus that "this is only good until something else comes along." I even have the first five weeks planned, with some idea of what's going to happen next. That's got to be a record for me.

This kind of feels like when I was writing Grimm's Law and I sent it off to [livejournal.com profile] tptigger with the notation to "insert chapter 7 here." The story's done, except for a big chunk of the middle that's rather unavoidable.

Now I just need to figure out how to work "The Call of Cthulhu" into the curriculum.
Mood:: 'accomplished' accomplished
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posted by [identity profile] starborn-scribe.livejournal.com at 04:53am on 02/09/2004
Let me know if you figure out a way to include "The Call of Cthulhu" into the curriculum. I'll sign up for your class!
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 11:54am on 02/09/2004
Unfortunately, the class is full. It may not stay that way once students find out that they'll have to *gasp* buy two books, but it's full for now. (This uni has textbook rental which is a horrible squandering of resources).

I will work in CoC. I will. Maybe I'll throw it in right before American Gods. We seem to have two weeks there that would otherwise be spent on poetry :)

Somehow I never would have guessed that you liked Lovecraft. Bad me.
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posted by [identity profile] starborn-scribe.livejournal.com at 04:30pm on 02/09/2004
To be honest I haven't actually read any Lovecraft. Since I've played in a few CoC rollplaying games I'm famaliar with the mythos. It is a little too dark and creepy for my taste, but entertaining nonetheless.

Did you see the Real Ghostbusters episode "Collect Call of Cthulhu"? It's a classic! Love that cartoon. *grin*
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 02/09/2004
It is a little too dark and creepy for my taste

Mine as well. Lovecraft isn't even that good of an author IMO. However, the mythos is rather sustaining and has been the inspiration for a number of authors whose names regularly appear on the approve list of classic authors, so I figure he's worth studying from that perspective. Also, it adds some variety to the literature.

Did you see the Real Ghostbusters episode "Collect Call of Cthulhu"?

No!

That's hysterical. And good to know. My students have a "find the literary allusion" extra credit assignment, so now I know about another example for those who insist that nothing we read has any literary allusions.
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posted by [identity profile] starborn-scribe.livejournal.com at 05:15pm on 02/09/2004
My students have a "find the literary allusion" extra credit assignment, so now I know about another example for those who insist that nothing we read has any literary allusions.

"nothing we read has any literary allusions"??? Puhleese. Here's one way to shift their brains in gear: mention the Bible. Christ imagery abounds in western literature! I'm preaching to the choir here, I know...
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 08:09pm on 02/09/2004
The Bible mentioned in the example for what a literary allusion is. The assignment restricts them to allusions to things we read in class. So, I'm deliberately throwing some things into the curriculum (like CoC) that I know has been alluded to heavily.

We're also reading the play "Pygmalion," and, if my husband's current "Family Guy" interest is proving anything, every darn episode of the show references either "Pygmalion" or "My Fair Lady" at least once.
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posted by [identity profile] thedrkraven.livejournal.com at 07:04pm on 02/09/2004
I seem to remember a bunch of high school kids that played the game. If memory serves me correct, which it often doesn’t, I think one of those kids had an obsession with throwing sticks of dynamite and everything he met. Hmmmm, ah it was a simpler time.
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 08:10pm on 02/09/2004
Ya know, I still have some of the books.

Weren't you the one who figured out rather quickly that shovels made a far superior weapon to machine guns?
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posted by [identity profile] thedrkraven.livejournal.com at 06:14am on 03/09/2004
Yup Yup Yup! Who needs guns when you have explosives and gardening tools? Man that just brought back so many memories. I miss those days.
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posted by [identity profile] starborn-scribe.livejournal.com at 06:31am on 03/09/2004
Who needs guns when you have explosives and gardening tools?

Don't forget the Garden Weasel (tm). Works even better if the tines are silvered. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 08:10am on 03/09/2004
Did they have Garden Weasles (TM) in the 1920's? Or are you playing Cthulhu Now (the 90's version)?

(we never, ever would have thought of that. LOL)
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posted by [identity profile] starborn-scribe.livejournal.com at 08:34am on 03/09/2004
I'm just making stuff up. The Garden Weasel was invented in the 90's, I guess. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] drednort.livejournal.com at 05:21pm on 02/09/2004
A book I'm planning to buy after having it recommended to me recently

"That Darn Squid God" by Nick Pollotta

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592240976/qid=1094170610/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-2866283-1919369?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Set in Victorian England in the year 1881, That Darn Squid God is an hilarious parody of the otherworldly mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, strewn with delightful trappings of mystery and magic. Two British explorers must race against time before a prehistoric squid god rises again to destroy the world, which would after all be a ghastly inconvenience. Tongue-and-cheek humor and a fresh and fast-paced narrative style set apart That Darn Squid God as a fantastically funny end-of-the-world ride
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posted by [identity profile] ladyslvr.livejournal.com at 08:12pm on 02/09/2004
Thanks for the recommend!

Now I've got a new book to buy.
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