In Reply to: Re: Cathryn's Literary Gem posted by Cathryn on May 05, 2007 at 14:45:56:

>Loved the new installment, Cathryn. You've again captured his magniloquent style perfectly.

Thank you.

>Why do you have his pique being due to the LOB's failure to recognize his great-grandfather's achievement? As I recall he actually waxes wroth mostly due to the antipodean rabble's failure to >recognize his own achievement (discovery of a gold-bearing ore deposit, IIRC).

I just made up his great grandfather. Then I had to come up with a noble indignation.

>Another fruitful approach would be to explore his antipathy toward "the true GeOOOOlogy" and its >pathetic, wormlike adherents.

Too close to home. He gives me ground for new material daily.

Has he responded yet to your merciless parody?

Not a word.

I've added your "Rocket City" to my Amazon wish-list.

Oh, good.

> I'm finishing up my last semester at school, and will finally have time for some recreational reading. BTW - my final essay in European Lit calls on me to compare Chaucer's Wife of Bath with Don Quixote. Any hints?

Were it I, I'd focus on first the birth, and then the death of chivalry. I don't know what your teacher has stressed, but this theme seems paramount to both works.

Cathryn