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sábado, 25 de diciembre de 2010
jueves, 23 de diciembre de 2010
THE MARK ON THE WALL by Virginia Woolf
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What are the themes you can find in the short story?
What do you understand by “Whiteker’s Almanack” and the “Table of Precedence”
For info check: http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/order_precedence.htm
and http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/colle/103444.shtml
What does the mark in the wall represent?
What do you think the image of the snail may convey?
Read the following excerpts extracted from the short story, choose one and reflect upon it. Leave your comments! Mention others of your preference.
(1) Rather to my relief the sight of the mark interrupted the fancy, for it is an old fancy, an automatic fancy, made as a child perhaps (…)
(2) A fraud of course, for the people who had this house before us would have chosen pictures in that way—an old picture for an old room. That is the sort of people they were—very interesting people (…)
(3) because once a thing’s done, no one ever knows how it happened. Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization (…)
(4) I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts. To steady myself, let me catch hold of the first idea that passes (…)
(5) But how dull this is, this historical fiction! It doesn’t interest me at all. I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself (…)
(6) Men perhaps, should you be a woman; the masculine point of view which governs our lives, which sets the standard, which establishes Whitaker’s Table of Precedency (…)
(7) No, no, nothing is proved, nothing is known. And if I were to get up at this very moment and ascertain that the mark on the wall is really—what shall we say? (…)
(8) Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of energy, even some collision with reality (…)
(9) I understand Nature’s game—her prompting to take action as a way of ending any thought that threatens to excite or to pain. Hence, I suppose, comes our slight contempt for men of action—men, we assume, who don’t think. Still, there’s no harm in putting a full stop to one’s disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the wall (…)
(10) Where was I? What has it all been about? A tree? A river? The Downs? Whitaker’s Almanack? The fields of asphodel? I can’t remember a thing. Everything’s moving, falling, slipping, vanishing (…)
What are the themes you can find in the short story?
What do you understand by “Whiteker’s Almanack” and the “Table of Precedence”
For info check: http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/order_precedence.htm
and http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/colle/103444.shtml
What does the mark in the wall represent?
What do you think the image of the snail may convey?
Read the following excerpts extracted from the short story, choose one and reflect upon it. Leave your comments! Mention others of your preference.
(1) Rather to my relief the sight of the mark interrupted the fancy, for it is an old fancy, an automatic fancy, made as a child perhaps (…)
(2) A fraud of course, for the people who had this house before us would have chosen pictures in that way—an old picture for an old room. That is the sort of people they were—very interesting people (…)
(3) because once a thing’s done, no one ever knows how it happened. Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization (…)
(4) I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts. To steady myself, let me catch hold of the first idea that passes (…)
(5) But how dull this is, this historical fiction! It doesn’t interest me at all. I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself (…)
(6) Men perhaps, should you be a woman; the masculine point of view which governs our lives, which sets the standard, which establishes Whitaker’s Table of Precedency (…)
(7) No, no, nothing is proved, nothing is known. And if I were to get up at this very moment and ascertain that the mark on the wall is really—what shall we say? (…)
(8) Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of energy, even some collision with reality (…)
(9) I understand Nature’s game—her prompting to take action as a way of ending any thought that threatens to excite or to pain. Hence, I suppose, comes our slight contempt for men of action—men, we assume, who don’t think. Still, there’s no harm in putting a full stop to one’s disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the wall (…)
(10) Where was I? What has it all been about? A tree? A river? The Downs? Whitaker’s Almanack? The fields of asphodel? I can’t remember a thing. Everything’s moving, falling, slipping, vanishing (…)
domingo, 12 de diciembre de 2010
Jingle Bells!
I am sending a link where we can see Christmas traditions songs and recipes from all over the world
Liliana
Liliana
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