It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones.
It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?
Tag: symbolism nathaniel-hawthorne scarlet-letter
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
Don DeLilloTag: reading youth literature ralph-waldo-emerson nathaniel-hawthorne robert-mccrum bronx
...as a mark of gratitude for his previous patronage, and a slight super-added morsel after breakfast, put likewise into his hand a whale! The great fish, reversing his experience with the prophet of Nineveh, immediately began his progress down the same red pathway of fate whiter so varied a caravan had preceded him.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: nathaniel-hawthorne the-house-of-the-seven-gables
Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear.
D.H. LawrenceTag: nathaniel-hawthorne scarlet-letter d-h-lawrence
she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway—a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe—all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light in August. Fitzgerald, sometimes: Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Tender Is the Night. I really like Willa Cather. Have you read My Mortal Enemy?" With no particular expression, she said, "Actually, I wrote it.
Truman CapoteTag: f-scott-fitzgerald emily-dickinson henry-james nathaniel-hawthorne willa-cather ernest-hemingway tender-is-the-night william-faulkner diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz light-in-august thomas-wolfe
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found
Ulysses
indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken.
Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.
Tag: e-m-forster puritanism nathaniel-hawthorne norms lenny-bruce
I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.
Tag: humor safety sarcasm waking-up nathaniel-hawthorne bartimaues
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