who's singin' Bruce?

[fflo]

in my brain:

... let me in: I wanna be your friend;
I want to guard your dreams and visions.
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands 'cross my engines ...

Comments

Not Poe after all

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the modern miracle of Google, I know the story was "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I skimmed the beginning somewhere online, an realized that that the thing I didn't like wasn't the moral I stated, but the anti-science attitude--the idea that science is about ruining nature, rather than understanding nature.

Re: Not Poe after all

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, another laugh-a-minute guy! Those 19th century folk often seemed to think about nature v. science, savage v. culture(d), dichotomies along those lines. And there was a godlessness or intentlessness of nature theme, too, I recall in certain works.

But I pretty much skipped that century in formal literary study myself.