Currently homework is consuming my life. Slowly. Very nearly pushed me to shred all my books, burn my papers, and go to hide in the forests around Susquehanna to live like the Unabomber without explosives. School is such a joy.
Anyway I need to continue reading Robinson Crusoe because if I don't I'll be so behind the rest of the class by tomorrow morning that I might just give up and start reading Gulliver's Travels early. heh.
I do, incidentally, feel rather bad for Robinson, because he tried the whole "get off the island in a raft" thing that Tom Hanks tried in Castaway, only it didn't work. I mean, yeah, Tom Hanks lost poor Wilson ("Wiiiilson! Nooooo!") but Robinson couldn't even get himself out of the currents around the island. The poor, downtrodden sod. Maybe if he had a pet volleyball he'd be better off, too. Or if a FedEx plane had dropped useful things like a box and tarp to be able to use. ... or the porta-potty that showed up. I dunno.
Robinson also evidently has a parrot. Perhaps it is the reincarnation of a jealous husband...
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Intriguing--why might the parrot be the "reincarnation of a jealous husband"?
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Heh. We read a story for Intermediate Fiction called, appropriately enough, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot." It's about what you would probably expect. I couldn't resist the joke.
ReplyDeleteCrusoe is pretty dull. The best part is when he makes the list about the pros and cons of being on the island.
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