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I have done only about 10% of this, mostly trying to set the scene for the Augustan period/Satire/Swift and then 'Vive le Revolution' with Romanticism/Blake et al.  A LOT of this had had to be sourced through the net, mostly via open network pages of the UK Unis; some via the Encyclopedia Britannica.  Trying to log in all on the Reference page is a bit of a nightmare (if I don't cross reference this at once, I will lose who quoted what/where/why very quickly).  Back to the grindstone :-/

20:25

o__O

I cannot tell a lie; I am ab-so-lute-ly bored rigid by this.  I bunked off and visited my sister and niece this afternoon, but I have been staring at the same 300 words for the past 2 hours and haven't made much headway. You see, I don't really care about Dryden, Swift et al. I am starting to not give a **** about Blake and I rather like him. Whereas I can identify with Shakespeare and Dickens (yes folks, you read it right), the building blocks in between have absolutely NO interest to me whatsoever.

Care cup ::: Empty.
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I have done as best as I can at the moment with Pope/Swift etc.  I would say that I am two thirds done of that, but need a lot more time to finish things off.  Still, the aim of the game is to prioritise and I have noticed that the main lecturer has underlined that this one and TH2 has to be in by next Wednesday/Friday respectively.  Thankfully, IN2 is comparatively short (1,000 words + 10% = 1,150 max), so I am hoping that a little bit of biography and a lot of poetry will bunce up the word count and will provide a decent essay.

IN2 Criteria )
For now, I have decided on Jack Clemo and I am undecided as to whether I use Pol Hodge, Arthur Caddick, Bert Biscoe, or John Harris.

20:36
300 words - just short of 30% (if we go to the absolute max).  Not brill - trying to decipher the annotation I have scribbled over the poem (Snowfall at Kernick).  Mine workings in the snow - very bleak.
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I am guilty as charged - but I think I have done most of the donkey work for the PP.  Now what I have to do is replace my elongated notes with a handful of 'pithy quotes' and then I am done, for now.  As well documented, it has been painful to do as I am sure it has been for some to read.  I keep this online homework log - because if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to see progression and at least I can see SOME thing is happening. It also brings me in contact with the outside world.

The list below contains some of the prevaricating things I did whilst compiling the PP.  Prodigal 2 tells me that when he was TRYING to revise for English, he read about the change from Constantinople/Istanbul and the Byzantine empire and the Vietnam war instead.  Anyway - here goes.
The Procrastinators Masterclass )
Thing is - I KNOW that this is a rough draft, so I know I will be doing this all again later on in the academic year.  I have a horrible feeling that I will be doing Marxist theory at some point.  Apparently, my degree is designed to stop looking at things at face value, challenge the norms, rock the establishment etc.  It is meant to make me artistic and anarchistic - so what is it making me do? Instead, I watched a video that shows how horizontal axis machines and platforms are bolted together inside a turbine tower....

* I think I will go and lie down now *

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