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Wasted most of the day in the podiatrist clinic, only to find that she had forgotten me and had gone home. I then spent a couple of hours AWOL until I could get an appointment at the minor injuries unit. Toe exceptionally bloody and exceptionally sore today. However, there are two things that have cheered me up; 1) I got my 'Lolita' essay back today - 60%. Starting to feel like I am scrabbling black at long last 2) I posted my result on FB and found a message left on my wall congratulating me - my old maths teacher (now retired) - always good to hear from him.

I am almost done, just need to do the following;

Edit

Signpost/Keep relevent

Top sheet/references

Rewrite ending

CELEBRATE

18:50
Managed to shed 400 words, have 79 to dispense with.

20:44
I have lost a quote somewhere which means I have to skimm the chapters to find it again. Just as well; the quote will bring me to the magic 3,300 mark.

21:25
Done and dusted :-)

Current Music: Classic FM - Various

Hmm - lots to do today, mostly sorting out a mess, then it will be the grand rewrite and edit. Everything is ok for the minute. Time to get moving.

20:38
I have edited and rewritten to the half-way point - but I know that the second half needs a LOT of attention. It is shaping up though and not such a strain as Ulysses was. Nothing could be like the strain of Ulysses!!!!

22:00
Completely rewritten, but I have to lose 476 words and find a neat conclusion. Think I am about 80% of the way there. Have cancelled lunch out tomorrow - this WILL be finished and then I can have lunch and a haircut on Thursday (the reminants of a 'normal' life!!!).

Today will be a disturbed day as Hubby needs to work in my office for an hour or so. So I had better get going :-/

23:25
3,816 - I think I am about 70% done, then I have to do another draft (copy paste) then substantially rewrite and edit, especially when the cap is 3,300. My draft is peppered with 'notes-to-self' i.e. revise/rewrite/expand etc and various directions to 'sort out this mess 1/2/3. Still, think I am on the right track. Nighty night :-)

( Health Matters )

Back to Lolita - office is cold. Bit of a problem - Hubby and P2 are out and I have lost the plastic lid to my board marker. I heard it clang again the gas fire, never to be seen again. Have tried looking under the fire, scrabbling on the floor under the fire etc., but no show. Thing is, if it has dropped INTO the fire, I can't turn it on. Hopefully, they will be back soon.

20:33
Fire has been on for a while now (plastic retrieved), but today has been as slow as hell. Barely 200 and very distractable. Would like to get a bit more done and expeand this essay quite a bit before I end up pairing it back and making 'pithy' comments.

Bah * Humbert *

21:33
2,773 - but most of it is Kincaid, so I will have to ad-lib and pare back on that. Tomorrow is another day...

Late start today as was meeting a friend in Penzance (love his designs - see HERE). Need to start on Kincaid now and compare with Freud's theories. I have a deadline of 3pm on Tuesday, so - skates on.

21:23
Progress is laboured, on account of being unwell again - but I am aiming for the 2,000 of reasonably well-written assignment before I go to bed.

22:06
2,203. Yeeha - done for the night. Tomorrow is more Kincaid and other essays and quotes from the book and my own 3rd person point of view. 2/3rds there :-D

Current Music: Classic FM - Various

Lollipops - the signifier of childhood. Right now, I am trying to piece together my essay, where once again it feels like a herculean task. It's a notoriously touchy subject - how to prove that indeed Humbert was a predator and that he didn't show any true pity or understanding of a girl, or behaved appropriately. So many people like the licentious side of what it represents i.e. underage sex, but they throughout the discourse, they fail to see the damage. Once again, I have to suspend my point of view and actually be quite calculating with what I am about to write in this assignment.

* sigh * - wish I could've stayed in Glastonbury....

22:48
1,315 - now that doesn't seem a lot more than yesterday (less than 200 in fact), but I had to start from scratch again and suddenly, I was writing like a bard!!! Like - wow, wish every day could be like this. I have to now use Kincaid tomorrow to profile his behaviors and why he fits the prototype perv, plus I think I will have to dig around the 'fase child' syndrome, where distance and objectification contribute to Humbert's stasis and that of the memory of his original love.

Jeez, if I could have a max output of 1,325 every day, then I would be done in three days. Onward tomorrow :-)

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Classic FM - unbelievably dreary tunes at that...

I am back at the desk, leafing through choice comments - both from Freud and Kincaid, then the other essays. Trying NOT to be distracted, alas it doesn't take much :-/

20:48
Done. Tomorrow, I am out and about which means I will have to complete the essay on Tuesday.

Nothing quite like that red wine/vanilla smell of old books. I have had an intense 9 hours of reading and annotating 4 academic essays on 'Lolita' and the end of the Kincaid report. Tomorrow will be about typng up notes from all 5 pieces, plus an excerpt from Freud's 3 essays.

Let me be weak
Let me sleep
And dream of sheep.

Mostly, it's about reading Freud's 3 essays and compare/contrast with other profilers before applying the framework to Nabokov's Humbert. All I can say is the more I read Kincaid, the more I think that Kinsey was a berk - and a potentially dangerous one at that.

Have got a reasonable result for the pp - she quite liked it, but I have quite a bit more spade work to do. It's a relief as she was absolutely acid about The Ladies' Paradise. Right now, I have got through and that is all I care about.

Will be off to midnight mass in 4 hours. Have an infected toe, but the church is only 15 minutes walk away (and for the first time this winter, really cold!!!) Wish me luck :-)

Picture - last day of lectures for the Truro contingency, who spent a couple of hours at the Caffeine Club to recover. I can now safely say that I have been converted to Prosecco. PP on Lolita was okish, will have to see what Dr GS has to say on the matter.

Longest trip home - time and distance haven't changed, but my ipod has died so the journey has doubled in length. Plus the GWR Wifi won't let me listen to Youtube. Time for a sleep methinks, as I am over an hour away from home.

Still going, still struggling, still not wanting to do this PP. Have tons to do, print out, save to minidrive AND have a script. Basically I am not going to bed until this is done - then I have to get on the 10:10 train tomorrow.

23:25
I have about 4 slides to do, plus collate printing and write a script. And stop coughing :-(

01:00
PP done, still have script to work on.

01:37
Finally! Am knackered and now have to wind down from being up so late.

Current Mood: Crosseyed and Delirious
Current Music: Classic FM - Various

As previously stated, I have really had a problem doing this PP. I used the 1997 version of Lolita as Dominque Swain plays the precocious teen well and Jeremy Irons is good enough looking and lizard-like to pull off the defiler Humbert Humbert. Alas, have struggled with this because I only have 24 hours left before I call it a day and I have not been good in filing in the details, nor have I writing a script to go with it. Oh and my filthy cold....

Bah Humbert :-(

23:23
I am done for today, my brain fried - I have quite a bit to do tomorrow and must be up early and FOCUS on the task ahead.

Current Mood: Stuffy nose and full of Lemsip

Well, these two are the choices that have been made for Assignments 3. As I have to do a PP on the first novel, I thought I might as well do it as an essay too - really hope they don't expect me to compare it to another novel, because I am fresh out of ideas on that one. I went to Dr Min's fantastic lecture today and she enthused about Ulyssess - which is infectious. I also read the following article.

'I read James Joyce's Ulysses in a week'

If I accept the challenge (and from what I can tell, even one former lecturer leaffed through the first, middle and last chapters to see what the fuss was about), then I only need to read Ulysses and I don't have to compare/contrast. 3,000 x 2.

*sigh*

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Lolita Marks
'Lolita' Essay' - Day VII
'Lolita' Essay' - Day VI
Lolita Essay - Day V
Lolita Essay - Day IV
'Lolita' Essay' - Day III
Lolita Essay - Day II
'Lolita' Essay - The Prologue III
Old Books & Candles
'Lolita' Essay - The Prologue
Lolita PP - Email
Prosecco Dreams
PP Criticism & Culture: Lolita - Day 3
PP Criticism & Culture: Lolita - Day 2
Assignments 3 - Criticism & Culture/Modernism

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Entries tagged with vladimir nabokov

Lolita Marks

'Lolita' Essay' - Day VII

'Lolita' Essay' - Day VI

Lolita Essay - Day V

Lolita Essay - Day IV

'Lolita' Essay' - Day III

Lolita Essay - Day II

'Lolita' Essay - The Prologue III

Old Books & Candles

'Lolita' Essay - The Prologue

Lolita PP - Email

Prosecco Dreams

PP Criticism & Culture: Lolita - Day 3

PP Criticism & Culture: Lolita - Day 2

Assignments 3 - Criticism & Culture/Modernism