My Own Two Feet
To continue on the theme of body related idioms and expressions, I thought I'd talk about feet, those oddly shaped[...]
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With an upcoming trip to the dentist's in mind, I thought I'd take this opportunity to talk about teeth. Yes,[...]
READ MOREWhat a day!
With exams fast on the way, we've had a quiet week. Literature class regulars have been deep in the past[...]
READ MOREHere comes everybody
I've taken my title from a study of James Joyce by the English novelist Anthony Burgess (He wrote A Clockwork[...]
READ MOREAll is changed, changed utterly
A select gathering turned up on Wednesday for a close reading of WB Yeats's "Easter 1916". We put some faces[...]
READ MOREWho’s James Joyce?
Our literary week began, or the last one ended, with a trip in the wind and rain to the Joyce[...]
READ MOREIt Cost a Power of Money
It Cost a Power of MoneyA genre rather than an individual writer was the focus of this week's literature class[...]
READ MOREFrom Oscar to the Undead
The cream of Atlas gathered once more in Room C to consider Wilde's frothy comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. [...]
READ MOREWilde Times
With only the elite in attendance our discussion of Dorian Gray was less noisy but perhaps more intellectual than last[...]
READ MOREA Modest Post
Our Irish Literature elective kicked off yesterday with a discussion of that disgusted Anglo-Irish satirist, the hilarious Jonathan Swift. Room[...]
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