well, there goes all my writing time

[bedlamsbard]

Twenty-eight books.

Twenty-eight books.

Just shoot me now. I RAN OUT OF ROOM ON MY BOOKSHELF. Allow me to show you the "book" portion of my room...

Well, I would show you, but my camera and my computer are no longer on speaking terms.

Oh, you know where it gets better? I'm reading the Odyssey in ENLS200 and CLAS381. I'm reading two different translations of the Odyssey. AT THE SAME TIME.

Really, just shoot me now, it'll make my life easier.

Comments

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

*pats*

If it makes you feel any better I own five copies of The Mabinogion, for three different classes.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* It makes me feel better.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

It makes me feel better to sell those suckers off every semester.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I'm staring at them and thinking a lot of them are the sort of thing I'd like to keep...regardless of the fact that when book number twenty-eight comes in (it hasn't arrived yet), I'll have spent over $500 on textbooks.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but do you really need two editions of the Odyssey? You could just keep one?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not keeping anything I already have more than one edition of. *cough*ParadiseLost*cough*

[ceirseach.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Your profs insist on different translations? That's... rather short-sighted. So long as they're good, scholarly translations (which I assume they are, or they woudln't have been selected by either prof) different editions/translations always liven up class discussion on relative interprtations and textual intricacies.

My translation of the Odyssey is the one from my last year of high school, with plentiful cartoons and silly comments in the margins from the words of our wonderful, insane classics teacher.

(Yes, she drew cartoons on the board. And acted out the entire story of the Trojan war for background. There was no way to be bored in her classes.)

And - um. I might possibly have... er... three or four editions of Dante's Inferno. Not counting the Italian text on www.danteonline.it, which I use for quick reference or for searching.

But one of those doesn't count, because it's Dorothy L. Sayers' translation, and that's a beautiful work of literature in its own right!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yes. *twitches*

And the insistence is on having a certain edition of Paradise Lost which, hello, is in English. I own THREE COPIES of Paradise Lost, and every one of them is here at Tulane with me!

[redangel618.livejournal.com]

i have multiple copies of various of shakespeare's plays for various classes and my mom has multiple copies and a collected works from when she went back to school and my sisters have multiple copies because no two teachers can ever use the same edition and insist on assigning reading by page number. blegh. my sisters are known to borrow mom's and my own copies for the margin notes when they have to write papers.

i'm going to admit to having books shoved everywhere. you always need another bookcase.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I have books everywhere. I finally caved and put some of my books under my bed, the ones I'm fairly unlikely to read for various reasons. But seriously, man, books...everywhere.