Is this a normal habbit?? I need someone to anayze me.....

[Basra-]

I like reading 17th and 18th century letters of aristocratic english people-- intimate letter where they exchange gossip and tidbits about their lives. I like to get into their lives and know who is who-- and what is what---even analyzed alot of people just from the letters. Famous english people-- whom if i wrote a book and based my findings in my study, i could cause an intellectual literary mayhem. Why do i read this>>???

[paidmonk]

You are obese, that's really the only thing I could analyze about your post. Um, other than that I'd say to lay off book writing, your attention span is embarrassingly short.

[Basra-]

Ok says the perpetual masturbator with a small willy.

[Cirwaaq]

Iqra

[shidow1]

Ok says the perpetual masturbator with a small willy.

[military-mind]

I like reading 17th and 18th century letters of aristocratic english people-- intimate letter where they exchange gossip and tidbits about their lives. I like to get into their lives and know who is who-- and what is what---even analyzed alot of people just from the letters. Famous english people-- whom if i wrote a book and based my findings in my study, i could cause an intellectual literary mayhem. Why do i read this>>???

[blitzkrieg]

BASRA---macanto, there is nothing wrong with you perse. You are a sophisticate---huuno. You are a rose amongst Somalian weeds!

Have you read James Joyce's 'love' letters to Nora Barnacle??

Macanto----I warn you. they're xxxx

[qoraxeey]

I like reading 17th and 18th century letters of aristocratic english people-- intimate letter where they exchange gossip and tidbits about their lives. I like to get into their lives and know who is who-- and what is what---even analyzed alot of people just from the letters. Famous english people-- whom if i wrote a book and based my findings in my study, i could cause an intellectual literary mayhem. Why do i read this>>???

I think it is normal

maybe u really like the old english people culture and their way of writting ...

if only U were that into your own people. language & culture

[LobsterUnit]

Ok says the perpetual masturbator with a small willy.

kadush. kadush. knock out.

[Basra-]

blitzkrieg aka Olive

Thank u 1 million times for calling me Sophisicate. I cherish every moment i am called that-- for in my heart i do believe i am a tender, cultured sophisicate.




blitzkrieg James Joyce is an interesting character. Have u read his book Ulysses? I always assumed he was gay, but now u tell me he has racey letter between him and a woman named Nora? Interesting.. I will check it out. HE is mostly a 20th century writer- i am more interested in 17th and 18th century-- the pivotal of mankind's civilization and modernisation.

[manarab]

I like reading 17th and 18th century letters of aristocratic english people-- intimate letter where they exchange gossip and tidbits about their lives. I like to get into their lives and know who is who-- and what is what---even analyzed alot of people just from the letters. Famous english people-- whom if i wrote a book and based my findings in my study, i could cause an intellectual literary mayhem. Why do i read this>>???

Basra, you need to expand your horizon by exploring other literatures. For instance, Russian literature of the past few centuries is far richer than its English/Irish counterparts. I'm sure you haven't ever read a Russian work, but your fascination with the English will change if you read a few.

[Basra-]

manarab

I detest russian literature simply for two major reason.




Russian is not English. one language is superior to the other, in enunciation, prose and style.

And second Russian culture has no authentic heritage. IN English they have something unique. There is an entire culture of manners, and hierachy. Not to mention intellectual and human know how among the english. IN essense, the English are the vessel of civilization to the broader world--and what makes this work is this universal anglo language they have.I am sure russia is filled with authentic story and story lines--dr zivago---i read it--is russie literature ma ha? I am sure it is compelling, but for me---i want the total package. Language, culture, intellect and entertainment. No holds this over the english dating from Shakespeare.

[manarab]

Basra, I don't know if it's me, but Shakespeare's works never appealed to me. I found them dull, difficult to follow, boring and senseless. I have something that might interest you from your favorite source of infos:

Golden Era

The 19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Era" of Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Vasily Zhukovsky and later that of his protegé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Pushkin is credited with both crystallizing the literary Russian language and introducing a new level of artistry to Russian literature. His best-known work is a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. An entire new generation of poets including Mikhail Lermontov, Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Afanasy Fet followed in Pushkin's steps.

Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, all mastering both short stories and novels, and novelist Ivan Goncharov. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F.R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in writing short stories and became perhaps the leading dramatist internationally of his period.

Other important nineteenth-century developments included Ivan Krylov the fabulist; non-fiction writers such as Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen; playwrights such as Aleksandr Griboyedov and Aleksandr Ostrovsky and Kozma Prutkov (a collective pen name) the satirist.

Silver Age

The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. Well-known poets of the period include: Alexander Blok, Sergei Esenin, Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Mikhail Kuzmin, Igor Severyanin, Sasha Chorny, Nikolay Gumilyov, Maximilian Voloshin, Innokenty Annensky, Zinaida Gippius. The poets most often associated with the "Silver Age" are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.

While the Silver Age is considered to be the development of the 19th century Russian literature tradition, some avant-garde poets tried to overturn it: Velimir Khlebnikov, David Burlyuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Alexander Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_li ... Golden_Era

[Basra-]

Manarab@lool


Thanks. But sorry just as Shakespeare bores u-- so does Russian wiki history of literature. Russian should just stick with building buildings and drinking vodka.