Starting Gaily
Aug. 25th, 2004 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayhapSomeone--I have yet to catch them in the act--keeps filling up the display at my library which is clearly designate for books which have been distinguished by a Pulizer, Booker or Nobel with romance novels of the lowest and trashiest order. I keep removing these and replacing them with books that have actually been, you know, so distinguished. I don't know what, exactly. is so hard about this.
I was distressed to discover that the library had apparently divested itself of one of the funniest books I had ever read. I did manage to find the full text online, a medium more suitable for sharing with you all at any rate, but it just isn't the same as the lovely old copy the library had.
The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteena's Plan is a perfect specimen of a novel, complete and entire for all that it is rather brief, written in 1890 by Daisy Ashford, age 8, with the original orthography lovingly reproduced. It opens thusly:
In conclusion, a quiz:
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose. You are a
mystery novel dealing with theology, especially
with catholic vs liberal issues. You search
wisdom and knowledge endlessly, feeling that
learning is essential in life.
Which literature classic are you?
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I was distressed to discover that the library had apparently divested itself of one of the funniest books I had ever read. I did manage to find the full text online, a medium more suitable for sharing with you all at any rate, but it just isn't the same as the lovely old copy the library had.
The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteena's Plan is a perfect specimen of a novel, complete and entire for all that it is rather brief, written in 1890 by Daisy Ashford, age 8, with the original orthography lovingly reproduced. It opens thusly:
Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty. He was middle sized and he had very pale blue eyes. He had a pale brown suit but on Sundays he had a black one and he had a topper every day as he thorght it more becoming. Ethel Monticue had fair hair done on the top and blue eyes. She had a blue velvit frock which had grown rarther short in the sleeves. She had a black straw hat and kid gloves.Evidently, the BBC produced a TV version last year with Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie, which pleases me more than I can say. Somehow, I must manage to see this. There are some pictures and things here.
In conclusion, a quiz:
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose. You are a
mystery novel dealing with theology, especially
with catholic vs liberal issues. You search
wisdom and knowledge endlessly, feeling that
learning is essential in life.
Which literature classic are you?
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