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[proximoception]

Just read Shelley's Triumph of Life for the howevermanyeth time. No wonder I found Fanny and Alexander Shelleyan, the Jewish shopkeeper's story is impossibly similar. Yet surely Bergman never read it.

This makes me happy. My favorites are my favorites for a reason.

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[nightspore.livejournal.com]

And you know, Derrida wasn't wrong (despite your not liking the book) to compare Death Sentence to it. When I teach Shelley (including this semester), there's a two hour session where I read every line aloud, commenting on the fly. Last year I gave them the option of memorizing the whole instead of an exam. One did, which was great.