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Countdown to GRE Literature Subject Test.
Days left until test: 5
Things I knew about Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 0
Things I know about Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1 million
Number of authors who if I had been asked when they were alive I would have been off by more than 100 years: 5 (um, sorry, Thomas Gray and others)
William Blake: Dead
Time wasting blog posts: 1
The most shocking date of death: E.M. Forster 1970 (can you imagine him listening to Janis Joplin or watching the moon landing? It just seems wrong. But, if we know anything, it's that wikipedia is never wrong).
10.29.2007
Exhibit 4.12
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We spent a minute or two of class time in L. White's Modernism class discussing how godforsakenly long Forster lived. I love that he was alive through the Sixties. It's such an improbable anachronism. Forget Janis Joplin, I hope he was fully into Swinging London.
Which was his favorite Beatle? My vote's probably with None, though maybe he thought Paul was pretty.
I like to think he died because The Beatles broke up. He tried to hang on for a few months, maybe even talk himself into their solo careers. Ultimately, the world was too much without them.
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