Thursday, November 23, 2006: New books.
Popster and I went to get them today.
Shernice greeted me upon my arrival in the foyer (she happened to be there) and she noticed my wired-up teeth. Oh well, they're bound to be noticed sometime. What will the Choristers say, I wonder? Hmm...
Anyway, back to the books. Apparently one of the books isn't needed for SS/Literature, but Sabrina (a fellow 2Puritian who's taking it too) didn't know which. Shoot - now there's one extra book on my hands, and I don't know which one it is! Great. So Popster and I got the full set of Literature textbooks, along with all the other books that we should get.
I returned home and chomped on my copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Something didn't go down right, and I have some bones to pick with the authors (Shakespeare as well as the person who put in the study notes).
Friends, readers, passers-by, lend me your eyes! I have come to expose the errors, not to praise the authors for making these mistakes! (Hahaha.)
Hail all, to Selene, Artemis and Aphrodite, never to cease!
Turn your backs to Luna, Diana and Venus as you please!
No doubt, they are identical,
But I, for I am critical,
See what is not;
For the benefit of you lot,
The latter names are by Romans bestowed,
While the former set, the original Greek-endowed.
DON'T CONFLATE THE NAMES WITH EACH OTHER LIKE SHAKESPEARE DID,
OR I SHALL SOON BECOME LIVID.
So that was Shakespeare's error; aside from that, he did a lot of research into the culture of the place, and I have to give him credit for that, no doubt.
Now, for the errors made by the writer of the study notes.
Towards the end, in the play within the play, there is a mention of the Fates. Here the writer of the notes names Lachesis as the Spinner, Clotho as the Measurer and Atropos as the one who cuts the thread after the weaving is finished.
The bone I have to pick with him is that he has confused Clotho's and Lachesis's roles! Clotho is the Spinner while Lachesis measures the life-thread. Furthermore, there is no weaving involved; there're already two women - one a lady, one not - and a goddess in Greek Mythology who take charge of weaving. The goddess is, of course, Athena; the woman is Arachne (she tried to hang herself after losing to Athena in a challenge; the latter let her live on as a spider), and the lady is my namesake; she was the Queen of Ithaca. (For your information, this blog can be considered my tapestry, thank you very much. I have no intention of undoing it - my namesake undid a tapestry of hers out of faithfulness to her King.)
OK, done. Hopefully typing all that out here will mean that I don't mention them in class and disrupt lessons (if we who are taking SS/Lit are even working on the Dream, that is).
Tag replies now.
[19 Nov 06, 23:36] Chinyu: hey hey hey its [scroll]physics + chem[/scroll ^^ [following tag] whoops broken tag. {with scrolling effect} physics+ chem! [following tag] 19 Nov 06, 23:37Chinyu: & haha hey yay you let me call you penny!!! {scrolling effect and upsize} WEEE =D
-> Oh really? Wow... OK, it's your choice after all. And - yes - you can call me by short name!
[20 Nov 06, 17:14] Chinyu: heyyy. you're posting in chinese! lols. [following tag, after I asked if she had a problem with it] haha thr's no prob laah of cos.
-> :) Good that you noticed...
[20 Nov 06, 22:52] hanle!: diao cy is close to flooding liao! xDDD {with scrolling effect} LINK ME!
-> Done.
[21 Nov 06, 18:00] weewee-: y mi linkk pink color de?? [following tag] walao...they dunoo how ta speak broken english issit?? [following tag] so OUTDATED [following tag] i'm not SAYING euu but...so toot
-> Welcome to my community, Cousin Lizzie. Welcome to my community.
[21 Nov 06, 18:11] hanle!: im {with scrolling effect} not pretty {and another scrolling effect to separate her points} not charming {no scroll} and my chinese sucks [following tag, after I told her that was what I felt about her] hahaha. my chinese results are like very sucky. guess how much?
-> I'm not guessing, Han Le. I'm not guessing. Mine could very well be in that range too...
[22 Nov 06, 14:32] sak: i got chem/bio too! what humanities are you taking? im taking pure hist with ss/geog =) [following tag] ooo sorry didnt read properly! haha.. guess most people are taking pure geog. i'm saying HELLO to HITLER!
-> Ugh, Hitler... (HATE YAMASHITA! GRR...)
[22 Nov 06, 18:21] sak: yup! i love love love my combo! from the start i was debating, lit or hist lit or hist? but everything sorted itself out and now im taking PURE HIST! <3333
-> Be prepared to be somewhere around 3S... Good for you since it's one of your initials. And it's also good that you love your combo. (switch languages) Travaillons dur et bien! (switch languages) All the best to us!
[22 Nov 06, 18:22] sak: woah you got you braces on already? woah.. did ou get them metal or rubber? if rubber, what colours?
-> All's currently in silver. Wait till I get used to them... then I'll be donning support for Cedar on my teeth.
[22 Nov 06, 19:43] # charis!: OH MY. this moving words thingy is nothing but a... {with scrolling effect} diesease [following tag] looks like i've caught it. LOL! (x [following tag] NO AUDITS! [following tag] (((((: [following tag] for now... SIGHS ): [following tag] {superscripted} up {normal }&& {subscripted} down [following tag] hahhaa, betcha dunoe ;D [following tag] i {br} know {br} you {br} duno {br} how {br} to {br} do {br} this {br} ahahahhaa {br} ((: [following tag] hahaha, i am evil:D [following tag] HOHO (x [following tag] {orange} YOUR BLOG SERIOUSLY NEEDS LOVELAYE ORANGEEEE! [following tag] hahaha, wonderful:D
-> Yes, thanks for that myriad display of abilities... but it destroyed quite a few of my tags too. Keep your flood down to no more than eight tags next time, OK?
[22 Nov 06, 21:03] Chinyu: heh the choir setpiece is out alr eh? hahaha. goodluck for your choir =D
-> You've seen it?! Nice. All the best to you too.
[22 Nov 06, 21:16] sak: penny! (can i call you that?) guess what? i got a hate tagger if you want entertainment! -grins- [following tag, with e-mail] huh? you got msn? i left my email! add meeee
-> OK... and I don't have any messenger, but I'll drop a mail soon.
[23 Nov 06, 11:51] # charis!: hello sak. though i dont know you. i wna a hate tagger!~:D [following tag] GIMME ONE! (: [following tag] my blog is dead. its needs Revival:D:D:D [following tag, directed to me] oh my. u are sooo [scroll]{upsize}SMART!!![scroll] [following tag] EEPS [following tag] BROKEN TAG! [following tag] never mind, i am tired. *grins sheepishli* [following tag]
-> You want a HATE TAGGER?! -_- Thanks for the compliment. And what's with being tired at... midday? Erm...
[23 Nov 06, 12:56] sak: of COURSE you can call me sak, penny! and charis! even tho i don't know you, why would you want a hate tagger? it's annoying but entertaining, nonetheless. [following tag] oh yeah, did you buy the french books already? where, when, and what do we buy?
-> Bingo, Charis, those were the thoughts I was trying to articulate here, but Sak's already done the job... And Sak, I think the books should be bought at the Centre, but I don't know when and what to get. Sorry...
[Following tag was a self-tag. After that...]
[23 Nov 06, 20:50] Chinyu: heh, we've seen the set piece alr aight. jiayou for ur choir=D
-> Yours too.
Well, that settles it all. Since it's already so late, I doubt I should be singing; I'm signing off instead.
~Seraphine Chorister~ sang in The Butterfly Garden
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