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yiling matriarch ([personal profile] marginalia) wrote2003-04-13 09:26 pm
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what do they eat when they can't get hobbit?

i think i spent the entire day in [livejournal.com profile] purplkandigrrrl's car.

*rubs eyes* sleepy. earache still. bah. work tomorrow looks likely to consist largely of matching negatives to pictures. gosh, that'll be thrilling. good thing i was going into school library media instead of archiving ;) the rest of the project was actually pretty interesting, though, but this last bit of stuff looks to be tedious.

i finished white teeth this morning . . and started the fellowship of the ring. wish me luck. i have been given no end of advice as to how to read this. *gulp*

*looks at her dwindling battery* i am woefully behind on answering email and comments. i hope that dell and the us postal service conspire to make it closer to five business days than to ten.

meh.

[ETA - [livejournal.com profile] dorrie6 - silly little drabble for [livejournal.com profile] sunday100 - her dark secrets, willow/tara. -really- dumb, but amusing to me.]

[identity profile] hrairoo.livejournal.com 2003-04-14 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
So tell me what you thought about White Teeth!!! I liked it a lot, but I wished I could have seen more Archie and Clara, and less Magid and his brother. And I think that the author---well you tell me what you thought about the ending. I already know what I think.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-04-14 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
definitely agreed on that. just getting glimpses of archie and clara was frustrating. i enjoyed it, but the ending was a little too neat and predictable for my tastes.

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[identity profile] hrairoo.livejournal.com 2003-04-14 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't predict that Archie would probably die! and I didn't really think it was neat, either. I mean, Smith told you all the neat things that might have happened, and then took them all away by saying this would just contribute to the myth of the happy ending.

Then she goes back to Archie saying go on old son, or something like--I think he (Archie) maybe was dying insstead and all the bad stuff was just left hanging over the reader's head.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-04-14 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
i wasn't thinking of that so much as the grand convergence of the final scene. that, well, of course everyone will end up there because they're inextricably linked, even to the not-actually-dead doctor.

but that's fate, i suppose. even though they think they're making choices the direction is determined.