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- Christine Lagrimas
- “Travel is intensified living – maximum thrills per minute and one of the last greatest sources of legal adventure. Travel is freedom. It’s recess, and we need it . . . ” --Rick Steves
12 comments:
WOW... it looks empty...it's botherin me... I just wanted to ay that this is the story that I have really enjoyed reading this year...I have enjoyed all the stories, but this is my favorite. The images that Cather creates are splendid, especially the one about the pot-bellied men and children on Cordelia Street. That's all...
I love this story! This piece contains all the subjects that I enjoy scrutinizing and analyzing in literature: independence, straying away from societal norms, attaining one's true and pure essence in life, mishaps that we all have in our lives.
I love Paul's persona, his need to stray away from mediocrity and the strive for enjoyment and the pusuit of happiness, enjoying the finer things in life! music, theatre etc. Even though the ending is tragic, it made the story even better! it portrayed his stance on independence and being who he is no matter what your family or close relations want you to be!
Willa Cather developed a fantastic story, this story was an exhibition of all the characteristics we must achieve in order to love life! I believe that we are all "troubled youths" persay who struggle between our inner desires and satisfying the wants of others. I love these words: "His golden days went by without a shadow, and he made each as perfect as he could"
YAY!! (on behalf of olive) and a WAHOO! from me. Olive has no internet, and I, no brain.
The lack of a picture is saddening.
The lack of my completion of the story to this hour is true.
The lack of shruthi's knowledge on how to spell her name is disturbing.
JK!
not really.
=]
i agree w/ Mak, she has no brain =P
haha jk dude come on don't sell yourself short =)
Lucy doesn't make friends w/ brainless people!
I can tell this blog will be unrelated to the story.
I agree with claudia, at first, when I saw no picture, I felt incomplete. I was expecting a hunk of some sort.
just feel the need to mention - i think everyone relates with paul just a little bit at SOME point in their lives... =[
so many emotions. gah, the story makes me sad.
Even though anyone who knows me knows my opinion on suicide, I REALLY liked this story. Paul's fate was tragic at the end, but it fit in very well with the artistic feel of the story. I usually don't like suicide at the end of a story because I feel like it's the coward's way out, but in this case I think it was the only remotely fulfilling ending I can think of.
So yes...I agree with Shruthi that it's one of my favorite stories so far.
And I think the picture for this blog should be some suave, Casanova-type hunk in a suit in honor of Paul.
guess who...
i really liked this story,
i really enjoyed this story. while reading it, i felt more and more connected to paul because his actions made me feel for him. it was tragic that he felt he had to kill himself, but it made the story even better.
oh yeah
i also liked the whole red carnation symbol throughout the story.
so since i missed all the comments in class, i'll just leave mine here.
wows!! this paul guy is pretty complex. the whole suicidal ending that everyone was trying to avoid saying was a little obvious to me. i could see his disillusionment with the world spiraling out of control. In the beginning paul talks about the plays and the sense of life they give him,but what's worse is the low he feels afterward. "after each of these orgies of living he experienced all the physical depression which follows a debauch" the end mirrors this too. paul lives the ultimate high - becoming himself dressed in that royal purple color in new york the city that never sleeps, the complete opposite of that horendous Cordelia Street. What else can you expect but for him to kill himself after having lived what he always wanted? Isn't that what the elephant man did? He slept wrong to kill himself once he had gotten what he wanted? (i can't remember exactly what that was though)
oh. and i don't want to say that this text screams fag because i hate that word, but omg it says the word a lot. lol. "he burnt like a faggot in the tempest." what does that mean? i'm not quite sure. and then "a place where fagged-looking businessment go an early car" although i don't know why paul describes them as sickening.. maybe he likes the younger type like how he "fell in with a wild San Francisco boy, a freshman at Yale, who said he had run down for a "little flyer"over Sunday. Is little flyer code for quickie??
ok i'm done being dirty. hope you all enjoyed.
oh and as for new criticism:
the long complex sentences mirror paul's complex personality.
IN RESPONSE TO JOANNA.
you are completely right. i liked this story because i could relate to it too . No, I am not suicidal! But like Paul i sometimes have this weird imagination that invents all these different scenarios (like when he's talking about his dad's reaction to finding him sneaking in). Also, on a broader scale, i believe most - if not all of us - have the fear of living this mundane life that Paul is trying desperately to escape if we don't already feel as though we have it.
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