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Shakespeare & Poe

Post by Arcadia » October 27th, 2007, 9:24 am

I have to read King Lear and William Wilson focusing in making a comparison about the "double" figure in the two texts for next monday in two pages :shock: . Our professor started his first class saying "the other is not other I" (el otro no es otro yo) and go on and on about it. I´ll tell you next week if I could follow the instructions :idea:

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Post by e_dog » October 27th, 2007, 4:45 pm

Los Otros
por Pablo Neurota

el otro no es otro yo.
pero
el "yo" no es otro tu.
Yo soy otro usted.
Yo somos otros ustedes.
pero
No soy nosotros.
Nosotros es otro el.
Nosotras es otra ella.
Nosotras no somos nosotros.

Yo no soy tu.
pero
No soy yo
tambien.
Adios mio.

Adios rio.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.

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Post by Arcadia » October 28th, 2007, 9:09 am

I never read that Neruda´s poem (or I don´t remember reading it), thanks!! things are slow here... :roll: I´m now re-reading the class notes and I didn´t re-read yet the only book that I have that can be more or less a bibliografía for that point.

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Post by Totenkopf » October 28th, 2007, 8:03 pm

William Wilson is cool, tho' lesser known. Also Hopfrog. Amontillado. Usher. others. and TK's fave, Masque of the Red Death. The Feds should make EAP's B-day a national holiday.

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Post by Arcadia » October 29th, 2007, 12:45 pm

William Wilson not his better tale in my humble opinion... too much explicit and didactic.

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Post by e_dog » October 29th, 2007, 2:56 pm

Not a Neruda poem!

Pablo Neurota.

He's his neurotic doppelanger.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.

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Post by Arcadia » October 29th, 2007, 6:41 pm

funny!!! nice to read you, Pablo Neurota!!!!!!!!! :)

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Post by Totenkopf » October 29th, 2007, 9:54 pm

Pablo Nerdruda! Yay.

Poe's Hawthorne analysis also entertains a bit. EAP probably the more authentic scholar of the two, though lacking the connections that Nate had. Another interesting piece of Poe Americana: the Business Man, EAP's slice and dice of Ben Franklin.

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