The following poem is a parody of "Casey at the bat" by Ernest Thayers (1888). It is not the first of this type to appear in the past month.| jill_rg
Disclaimer: Italicized lyrics from the song “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen.| jill_rg
“There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what… 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”| jill_rg
Traitors were nothing new to the Equalists.| jill_rg
He naturally assumed she was a Bender. She recognized him as a pro-Firebender but didn’t run away in fright or turn her back on him with a scowl of disdain. Just his golden eyes alone were often enough to make food vendors refuse to sell to him, merchants refuse to trade with him, women hurry their children over to the other side of the street when he passed. He couldn’t tell what type she was at first glance; she had the green eyes of an Earthbender but the hair black as ebony and skin w...| jill_rg
“This is not fair! It was our title first! I HATE this job!” Michael DiMartino slammed the door hard behind him and slammed his briefcase even harder onto the table.| jill_rg
Dear Mother,| jill_rg
The sudden banging on their attic-apartment’s trap door entrance was the second shock the brothers received in as many minutes that morning. They barely had time to shift instinctively to the guard position before a voice began shouting, “It’s Korra! Open up! Hurry!” When Mako unlocked and opened the door, he was greeted not by a face but by the newspaper she was waving over her head. “Have you seen the paper this morning?” They nodded. That had been the first shock.| jill_rg
The Avatar had come after all.| jill_rg
She wanted him to be the one to ask.| jill_rg
They had made it home safely, too exhausted to question why they weren’t followed. All doors and windows were locked, all injuries bandaged and doctored as best as possible, all of the brothers’ concerns about the Equalists’ arch enemy traveling home alone in the dark ignored. Korra was long gone, and now the lights of the torches lining the boardwalk on Air Temple Island finally went out as several more rooms in the island’s main residence lit up. This signaled to Mako that the Avata...| jill_rg
Back when my friend convinced me to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles (the most depressing piece of literature in the history of civilization!), the edition I checked out from the library included a quote calling Tess a rare example of "goodness made interesting." Now, this actually isn't true of Tess because murder (however sympathetic the plight of the murderer, as hers is) is incompatible with "goodness"; she quite a heroine, just not "goodness made interesting."| jill_rg
RiffTrax or whatever snarky abridged versions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 come out on the Internet are obligated to say the following:| jill_rg
Paradise Lost, Mansfield Park, Little Women, Lady Audley's Secret, A Little Princess, every fairy tale, every Shakespeare tragedy, every Gothic novel from The Castle of Otranto to Wuthering Heights to Dracula to The Phantom of the Opera... in all literary fandoms, it's the same song from all readers and critics: virtue sucks, evil rocks; heroes are boring, villains are awesome; any restraint, reason, or morality is always wrong, but all passion is always right all the time.| jill_rg
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.| jill_rg
I still haven't found a way to justify Anne Elliot's defense of her decision 8 years ago to my satisfaction, but at least I know one way NOT to justify it.| jill_rg
Book author. I'll get it if 2 general impressions the past and present have given me are wrong:| jill_rg
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I shifted a heavy burden off my shoulders yesterday: I turned in the extended paper necessary to earn my Master's Degree in English. I chose to write about Mansfield Park for 2 reasons:| jill_rg
What do Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey have in common?| jill_rg
I just wrote the following e-mail to my mother describing a particularly personally meaningful experience I had today and decided to post it here. The meaningfulness of an experience is in no way proportionate to its material significance.| jill_rg
Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion - which of these is not like the others?| jill_rg
Whenever I try to take up the impossible task of personally putting Austen's novels in order from my favorite to least favorite, I can never get past my top 2: Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey is my least favorite (which does not mean I don't like it - not even close - I just like all the rest better), but the other 3 are all (completely subjectively and biased, here) equally good in different ways imho. P&P and MP are in a class of their own, but which of them is the ...| jill_rg
Fact: I had no doubts or apprehensions about Gilbert being a suitable husband until I discovered how much critics hate him, and I can find nothing upon re-perusals since that would make me dislike him if I weren't specifically looking for ways to twist everything against him. Question: Should I…| jill-rg.livejournal.com
