Re: THE INVERTED FOREST
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:13:36 -0400
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: THE INVERTED FOREST
>> I even wrote a paper in my Shakespeare class
>> comparing rock stars to Elizabethan actors using a few quotes from Jerry
>> Garcia and I aced it!!
>
>I *love* doing that! I think it's an entirely appropriate analogy, too. I
>guess it's the metaphysical-poet side of me that will use *any* analogy if
>it best gets across what I'm trying to say. I compared Shakespeare's
>`Troilus and Cressida' to Monty Python's `Life of Brian' (i.e. it's a story
>that occurs alongside a larger, more significant event but also mirroring
>it in a perverse way) and got an 85 for it (:
>
>Camille
Excellent. I think comparing "high style" lit to something more
contemporary and pop sort of "takes the edge" off of it. Its always fun to
give a classic piece of lit a slightly different slant. I once wrote a
comparison paper on Tennyson's "Marianna" and the song "She Talks to Angels"
by The Black Crowes.
Patrick
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