What is it to me oh laurel tree if, before the gaze of the fishermen who fish the Aegean sea it was your bark that bit into the body of Peneus’ lovely daughter, of naked Daphne as she ran through Thessaly as if to flee from the glory of God [Read more…]
Good afternoon everybody. I am very pleased to have been invited by Sekai O Miru Kai to talk to you about the twentieth century British novelist E. M. Forster. I want to emphasize straightaway that I am not at all an “E. M. Forster expert” but just somebody who enjoys reading his novels and essays, which I first came across when I was 16 or 17 and studying “A level” English Literature at a college in Tonbridge, the same town in Kent where E. M. Forster was sent to a small boarding school consisting of just 30 boys. But, sensitive and homesick, Forster didn’t really fit in and had a miserable time being bullied and humiliated by the other boys.
Here’s a good question to slip into a pub quiz or to try out on your friends who think they are Shakespeare buffs… Which Shakespearean character is given the most lines in any single play? Which character has the second most lines to say, the third most, the fourth most? [Read more…]
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