Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy
PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction. Joined October 2010-
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I feel like the most impossible literary ranking imaginable for me would be to choose a favourite play by this man.
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She’ll always do it. I think it’s her quiet, private, personal voice.
She’ll always do it. I think it’s her quiet, private, personal voice.
Exactly. Compassion is a network of fellow feeling connecting all things of the world in a deeply underlying, profound sense and experience that existence involves suffering. I don’t think anyone could imagine literature taking place without this. It excludes nothing.
Exactly. Compassion is a network of fellow feeling connecting all things of the world in a deeply underlying, profound sense and experience that existence involves suffering. I don’t think anyone could imagine literature taking place without this. It excludes nothing.
Interesting little point here. I think this is considered reductive (by some) because we reductively define compassion. Compassion is vast. It is not a single quality, precisely.
One might say boundless.
VLADIMIR: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. —Samuel Beckett,
VLADIMIR: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. —Samuel Beckett,
Rushing to meet commission deadlines.
Peter Paul Rubens, ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ (c. 1605–07)
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@bernardtjoy "You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise..." ~~Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
@bernardtjoy At the risk of debunking the poetic inspiration process, I'd say it is because we chanted them at school. Nursery rhymes have the same 'divinely dictated' feel to them because they were chanted to us as infants by our parents.
@mytwords @bernardtjoy Do I dare to eat a peach?
@ChicagoPlaytime @mytwords @bernardtjoy I have heard the mermaids singing each to each I do not think that they will sing to me
@bernardtjoy The perfect poem to describe this moment
@bernardtjoy Also a photo of him I’ve never seen before.
@bernardtjoy After I woke up, I spent a bit of lazy time in bed doing crossword puzzles. It always seems to ease my anxiety (which is a nagging pest in my life).
@bernardtjoy Of course, I am several hours behind you and have just brewed my coffee ☕️
@bernardtjoy Nah, it's Maud by Tennyson...😱
@bernardtjoy 81 years old and not a native English speaker but learned it in school during English lessons when I was 13 and never forget.
@bernardtjoy Out if the night that covers me Deep as the pit from pole to pole I thank what gods may be For my unconquerable soul Invictus by William Henley
That's me, alright. Today. 😅
That feeling when you’ve only just started reading William Faulkner for the first time:
@bernardtjoy The unexpected clash between the sing-song nursery rhyme (Yes sir, No sir, three bags full) and the terrifying thing described.
🔥
What first lines of a poem go the absolute hardest and why is it these ones?:
@bernardtjoy Only a dad, but he gives his all To smooth the way for his children small, Doing, with courage stern and grim, The deeds that his father did for him. This is the line that for him I pen, Only a dad, but the best of men. - Only a Dad, Edgar Albert Guest
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