Well, certainly there is more than enough to engross a person before the second century.
We did the then-usual Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and "The Secret Sharer." I remember liking the prose but not really the subject matter. I suspect that the class would have preferred the more romantic and fantastical stories, on the whole. I always meant to look them up. The passage you quote is wonderful. I see that I put Conrad in American literature above, which of course is nonsense; but I associate him so strongly with Hawthorne that it must have been a survey course of some kind.
Moths are greatly cherished here as well, but are currently in short supply. I sometimes feel that it would be better to just let or bring in a selection of insects, though the possible damage in that situation doesn't bear thinking of.
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We did the then-usual Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and "The Secret Sharer." I remember liking the prose but not really the subject matter. I suspect that the class would have preferred the more romantic and fantastical stories, on the whole. I always meant to look them up. The passage you quote is wonderful. I see that I put Conrad in American literature above, which of course is nonsense; but I associate him so strongly with Hawthorne that it must have been a survey course of some kind.
Moths are greatly cherished here as well, but are currently in short supply. I sometimes feel that it would be better to just let or bring in a selection of insects, though the possible damage in that situation doesn't bear thinking of.
P.
That passage you quote is splendid.