I am sorry we have come to a halt!

Can we revive ourselves?

I haven't even started.

Robert

I'm ready for The Sound and the Fury in July. Looking forward to it!

I am generally down on the quantity of working and not having fun that I seem to be doing this summer. I think I will make a point of reading it--if necessary, time will be made by staying off internet book sites.

I am generally down on the quantity of working and not having fun that I am doing this summer. I think I will make a point of reading it--if necessary, time will be made by staying of internet book sites.

I haven't read anything by Faulkner yet, but I'm also planning to read The Sound and the Fury. Hopefully I'll catch up with the previous books over the next few months.

1> Can we revive ourselves?

Unless a certain someone whom I'll never name or put on the spot (RSHabroptilus) decides to spend some time here like he was appointed to do, instead of entering every damn DVD and freaking Video Game EVER MADE, and thus ticking off the purists among LT catalogers, my answer to your question, kokipy, is....

If the Lakers beat the Celtics, then yes, we can revive ourselves. If the Lakers lose, we're doomed, and no amount of smelling salts can revive us.

Well, kokipy, after careful consideration, it's clear to me that at least until Thursday, we can indeed revive ourselves.

This thread is a fish.

But we are not yet thrashing on the river bank sucking air.
I am, & I am sure others are still reading Faulkner. He does take some digesting to really appreciate his work. That takes time.
I have read the first three of his books & love his work. He was incredibly gifted and it is exciting to read someone that good. I still get excited every time I pick up a Steinbeck that I have not yet read.

I want to read Absolam, Absolam! but don't want to wait until Nov. I think I'll read this summer but still try to discuss with the group. I have The Reivers on audiobook loaded on my phone. I hope to listen to it soon.

Anyone else fans of Faulkner audiobooks? I listened to Sound and the Fury in Jan. I'm not sure I would have gotten though the first two parts reading alone.

Well, considering that the Lakers have risen from the dead, that must mean that this thread can, too????

I am continuing to dip into Light in August. I think this passage is about to become part of my profile:

"He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred. He was thirtythree years old."

I'm sorry for my failures to this group, folks; I know I made this big promises recently, all these changes to the group, wonderful plans unfolding, etc., before disappearing just as quickly as I did before from not just the group but LT itself.

I've had some rough times the past month. Signed up for a chem summer course--my first summer course--and being not exactly the most enthusiastic student, esp. when it comes to a subject like chemistry (req. for my new major), it was a ton of work. Coupled with that my mom had entered the last stages of her disease, ALS, and we had attention from relatives and 24 hr nurse-watch day and night for a couple weeks, before things started to look a little brighter--until two days ago. I was woken up at 7 this morning with the news my mom had passed away an hour earlier.

Awful as it feels to say it, hopefully I can give more attention to this group as the next week or two progresses and get back to my old habits of daily posts and interaction. The past week I've been picking back up into reading at a decent pace after the monsters that were Blood Meridian and a 5-day-a-week chem course clashing as they did.

(And Fuck ALS. What a shitty disease.)

School's got to come first.

I am really sorry to hear that.

(Well said.)

>13 tootstorm: rickybutler, I'm really sorry about your mother.

13--I'm so terribly sorry about your mother. Take care of yourself.

Sorry to hear about your mother.

As for chemistry, I used to teach chemistry, summer courses included, and the trick is that if you just manage to do the assignments, there is no real reason why you shouldn't be able to make the grade. Talk to your TA about what has happened at home. We are a lot more understanding than we look.

Take care of yourself.

ditto 14-17, Todd. Been thinkin' about you. You want some books? Let me know, I'll send you some.

Chemistry made me cry in high school. I was straight-As all the way until Chemistry. Very humbling. Made it out with a C-.

So very sorry to hear about your mother. I hope things are better for you now as a couple of months have passed and time does help. The best to you.

rickybutler - sorry to read of your loss.