Feedback Please....
A study guide for the ULTRA-Lazy,
Biff's Notes on Cliff's Notes!
EXAMPLE: Thomas Hardy's Mayor Of Casterbridge.
A drunk sells his wife and daughter to a sailor
for Five Guineas. Years later they remarry.
He is the Mayor and a prosperous merchant. But deceit
and jealousy ruin Everything...He dies alone!
Wadda'ya think?
Hey, who needs to know about how Lies and Guilt causes
overpowering turmoil, or Hardy's omnipresent theme of
Pessimistic Fatalism?
If you or anyone you know has written a Friday Flash 55
Please come tell The G-Man
I will visit, read, enjoy, comment....Then BOOK!!
So from the most Pessimistic host from coast to coast
Have a Kick Ass Week-End!!!
(Of course I read the FULL novel, I don't know where these
old Cliff's Notes came from. Would someone really keep this
crap laying around for 45 years??)
Hehehehehehehe.....
It has been some time since I read those books. Yes, those notes would be helpful ~
ReplyDeleteHappy FF 55 ~
http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-far-to-walk.html
I'm all for abridged versions and cheatsheets......
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday from that large land mass just up from Antarctica.
I'm up.
Hardy is my pessimistic hero of all time, but I will say, Biff has summed him up rather well there.
ReplyDeleteI'm playin, with a little double trouble, a form piece for that dVerse Pub place that happens to have 55 words for my Mr G--*and* be a bit of an Aesop's fable meets Animal Farm(not Animal House, G) political rant so fair warning:
Class Warfare
Now, if only they would accept 55 word term papers!
ReplyDeleteSounds like some query letters I've read.
ReplyDeleteMine is up
You lost me, G-Man; clearly I have some reading to catch up on.
ReplyDeleteMine: Old Man Winter's been fired.
Inquire within.
Love the notes !
ReplyDeleteI would like to give them to you for more fun fillers :D
Beauty
I'll have to take Biff's word for it as that is one I hadn't read. Forgive me for speeding on this week's post. I will gladly pay my fine.
ReplyDeleteI'm over HERE if you care to drop by.
I only read the story of
ReplyDeleteTess and, yes, it was a study in pessimistic fatalism. Not feeling too optimistic myself tonight. My 55 words are here
I confess I had to use the Cliff's Notes for Moby Dick. I just couldn't make it through otherwise. Poor visiting professor from Great Britain thought my paper was brilliant, and I felt a little bit guilty.
ReplyDeleteMine is up. http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/the-eye-patch/
I'm completely lost, but that's ok. It's a recurring theme in my life lately.
ReplyDeleteThanks for another Friday 55!
Mine's here. :)
Oh 55 words are much too much to read. Could you shorten it up a bit more?
ReplyDeleteMine is up! Yes, I played. ;-)
HEY G...any shortcut is the long way home !...thanks for the table
ReplyDeleteI offer you a unique 55 today
Peace ☮
55
you sir are a learned man...cliff was a great study partner back in the day...will be in tomorrow in the AM...
ReplyDeleteCould it possibly be more pessimistic than Jude the Obscure? What would Hardy have done with a Flash 55 assignment? The mind boggles.
ReplyDeleteNight Road
lol! Where was Biff when I needed him???? :) Loved it, Galen!
ReplyDeleteMy 55: Hobgoblins
I remember reading Cliff notes once, but found it less helpful than whatever the book was.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea...anything to save time and effort!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chuckle...and have a great weekend, G-Man!
http://bodhirose.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/anniversary/
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ReplyDeleteHardy tended to lean on pessimism. - he probably wished Cliff or Biff or G Man had been around
ReplyDeleteA very happy 55
my 55
Ah, all the best classics can be shortened to a few sentences. It's the simplicity that makes them great.
ReplyDeleteYou'll find mine here.
Lots of people keep that kind of stuff for years. (Guilty!)
ReplyDeleteWe have a thing over here called the Reduced Shakespeare Company who manage to fit all of Shakespeare's plays into a single evening's show. I've not managed to get tickets to see them yet, but I'd love to.
My 55 words are here.
Oh don't you look enlightened ...
ReplyDeleteCliff and his notes were very good friends of mine in school
my 55
hope all is well with everyone - I've been on the road
A black spot
ReplyDeleteA fresh look at both stories in in 55 words
ReplyDeleteI've never read them but now, thanks to your 55, I don't need to. LOL
ReplyDeleteMine's up. x
Oh G, you really make me want to know more about you. You are a book with more than one cover, most definitely!
ReplyDeleteI never used Cliff's Notes, being steeped in guilt or something like that.
Mine is a 3-Banger this weekend: a Triolet . . .
Best wishes for your weekend. :)
Have to read this one...
ReplyDeleteMine is here -
http://janukulkarni.blogspot.in/2012/03/ammused.html
Notes on notes eh. A bit like my scribblings :)
ReplyDeleteMine's here:
Sirens
Have a great weekend Mr G
Here is my 55: <h ref="http://writinginthebachs.blogspot.com/2012/03/oops.html") ta da!:(/a)
ReplyDeleteOk, that didn't go well O.o. I'm trying again:
ReplyDeleteta da:
Ha! I really enjoyed this! What I want is to see Biff's Notes to Finnegan's Wake! A wake-up call for sure.
ReplyDeleteMine is much more spiritual. (As in old religious traditions.)
http://manicddaily.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/fish-for-friday-flash-55-used-to-be-the-secret-life-of-you-know-what/
And will try making link:
Fish for Friday
Oops, I put this on the wrong post. Let's try this again.
ReplyDeleteIn the end I guess he got was was coming to him.
I'm running on empty these days, but here is my contribution at Roses to Rainbows
PS - I ALWAYS read yours! (and chuckle) :o)
ReplyDeleteI like to read both... The actual and the notes... Just to make sure I understand it properly. Ha.
ReplyDeleteHope to be back next week to play... This "break" is killing me.
Here it is, religion in a sack,
ReplyDeleteflash 55 for sure:
http://bibliosity.blogspot.com/2012/03/jesus-crackers.html
I think I like your version best, G.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how I lost a week. I posted on last week's and started commenting. Took me awhile to catch on that it's not March first.
Mine's up: Winter's Weeds
That's the only way I'd ever read it.
ReplyDeleteAnd Teach! I got an apple for you over at my place...
just posted one for you... HERE
xo
Sorry I am late!
ReplyDeleteJust adore Hardy- not so much Cliff
or Biff notes- glad you read the original ! thanks-
http://izzy-conversing.blogspot.com/2012/03/ff-55-3912-once-upon-long-time.html
Galen: Gotta love those Cliff notes. Anything to make it easier!
ReplyDeleteMine is up. Believe it or not!
Have a great weekend. D
i'd rather just watch the movie...
ReplyDelete{just teasing!}
i had to pull out an old one this week, Galen. i hope you don't mind.
http://haikulovesongs.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/lost-in-the-mist-redux/
have a great weekend, G!
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ReplyDeleteWhat, you haven't had those books for 55 years G? Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteHa, it is amazing the crap we keep, isn't it.
I am playing this week!
Awesome blog following!
ReplyDeleteMayor of Casterbridge summed up perfectly! have to go read it again now:) my 55 -http://myrandrspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/fun-friday-bingo.html
ReplyDeleteCliff notes ahan...I remember most classmates using it back in grad as I graduated in english lit....but then the full novel enticed me :)
ReplyDeleteAnyways me participating finally :) here I go
http://whisperingwithwords.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/the-white-shadow/