tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post1833035306091243418..comments2024-01-17T09:06:41.408-05:00Comments on BookMenDC: BelovedTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257203824962491470noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post-51943657901274308862009-05-20T07:07:58.291-04:002009-05-20T07:07:58.291-04:00Let me second Tim's expression of gratitude to Ter...Let me second Tim's expression of gratitude to Terry on both counts, and encourage members to suggest other books for discussion to keep this tradition going. <br /><br />Unfortunately, when the next "fifth Wednesday" comes up in July, I'll be on vacation (I keep hearing people talk about that strange concept and have decided to experience it for myself, LOL). But if others are in town and would like to meet, please speak up. <br /><br />Otherwise, we'll try for the fall (don't have my calendar handy, but I believe Sept. 30 would be the next fifth Wednesday). Cheers, SteveDCSteve1441https://www.blogger.com/profile/11062458870814694249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post-77849852305463392712009-05-09T11:33:00.000-04:002009-05-09T11:33:00.000-04:00Thank you, Terry, for suggesting Beloved and hosti...Thank you, Terry, for suggesting <I>Beloved</I> and hosting the discussion (and thereby perhaps inaugurating a tradition of fifth Wednesdays) and for your posted summary for those of us who had to miss that meeting. I found the denouement something of a "<B>melo</B>dramatic" come down from the high tragedy—in deeds and language—that preceded it, but perhaps it's worth remembering that the <I>Oedipus</I> ends in domestic squabbling (though maybe not the original trilogy itself). I don't know how else Morrison might have "untied" her splendid knot and I don't know that I'll mind any when I read it a second time. <br /><br />By the way, in addition to Faulkner and slave narratives, we should throw in Magic Realism (cf <I>One Hundred Years of Solitude</I>) into <I>Beloved</I>'s literary context.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09257203824962491470noreply@blogger.com