I've heard that from some people. (Although often these people also enjoyed The Waves, which I've already complained about.) BTW, I totally saw that lighthouse from the train and the beach when the Kenyon/Exeter program took a field trip to St. Ives in Cornwall. :)
In fact, I've written the same thing myself.
*reads* *agrees with post*
And I loveloveLOVE Arcadia as well. I like that passage you quoted in the post, and I really like what Septimus says to Thomasina about human knowledge being a kind of endless march, where things are dropped and lost but eventually picked up/rewritten in the future. As someone who was as disconsolate as Thomasina when I heard about the destruction of the library at Alexandria when I was ten or twelve, that really got to me.
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:04 am (UTC)I've heard that from some people. (Although often these people also enjoyed The Waves, which I've already complained about.) BTW, I totally saw that lighthouse from the train and the beach when the Kenyon/Exeter program took a field trip to St. Ives in Cornwall. :)
In fact, I've written the same thing myself.
*reads* *agrees with post*
And I loveloveLOVE Arcadia as well. I like that passage you quoted in the post, and I really like what Septimus says to Thomasina about human knowledge being a kind of endless march, where things are dropped and lost but eventually picked up/rewritten in the future. As someone who was as disconsolate as Thomasina when I heard about the destruction of the library at Alexandria when I was ten or twelve, that really got to me.