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1. Re-reading my Spike meta...due to a rec/link that rebcake made on another site (we're notified in lj any time someone links to, reposts or rec's our work), I realized something that hadn't occurred to me before now. Seems sort of obvious now. Possibly occurred to me because of a discussion I was having last night with a gal at my church about the mother-goddess mythos in mythology, which I studied in depth and examined in under-grad for both my minor and my major. I had a mythology minor - I like to call it cultural anthropology, but in reality it was a mythology minor.
At any rate...what hit me, was how the writers examined religious tropes and myths in that series.
( Buffy and religion )
2.Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than three times
This continues to be excruciatingly Hard. Let me think. I know I've read Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters more than three times. Although not sure it counts if all you are doing is reading the good parts and ignoring the rest. Which is the same thing I did with Dorothy Dunnette's Checkmate, The Hobbit, Escape to Witch Mountain, various romance novels, sci-fi novels, etc. So pondering. I read James Joyce's Ulysess and William Faulkner's Sound and the Fury more than three times. But that was for my English Lit major. I know I've read Pride and Prejudice several times and Sandition. It's frankly hard to pick one. Or remember for that matter.
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3.Day 05 - A show you hate
This continues to be so much easier than the book meme, it is not even funny. And what it says about me, I do not want to contemplate. I do have a visual memory...so there is that.
Anyhow, show I hate. Easy. The Bachelor and all it's spin-offs such as The Bacherlette, etc. And I do mean all of them. I hate that show. That show makes The Dating Game actually seem somewhat sweet in comparison. It is repugnant on so many levels. Wish it would go away so I don't have to see the cringe-worthy commercials.
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At any rate...what hit me, was how the writers examined religious tropes and myths in that series.
( Buffy and religion )
2.Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than three times
This continues to be excruciatingly Hard. Let me think. I know I've read Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters more than three times. Although not sure it counts if all you are doing is reading the good parts and ignoring the rest. Which is the same thing I did with Dorothy Dunnette's Checkmate, The Hobbit, Escape to Witch Mountain, various romance novels, sci-fi novels, etc. So pondering. I read James Joyce's Ulysess and William Faulkner's Sound and the Fury more than three times. But that was for my English Lit major. I know I've read Pride and Prejudice several times and Sandition. It's frankly hard to pick one. Or remember for that matter.
( Read more... )
3.Day 05 - A show you hate
This continues to be so much easier than the book meme, it is not even funny. And what it says about me, I do not want to contemplate. I do have a visual memory...so there is that.
Anyhow, show I hate. Easy. The Bachelor and all it's spin-offs such as The Bacherlette, etc. And I do mean all of them. I hate that show. That show makes The Dating Game actually seem somewhat sweet in comparison. It is repugnant on so many levels. Wish it would go away so I don't have to see the cringe-worthy commercials.
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