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For last year's words belong to last year's language,
And next year's words await another voice.
TS Eliot
And next year's words await another voice.
TS Eliot
Old Year and New Year by Christina Rossetti
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year left me tired,
Stripped of favourite things I had
Baulked of much desired:
Yet further on my road to-day
God willing, further on my way.
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year left me tired,
Stripped of favourite things I had
Baulked of much desired:
Yet further on my road to-day
God willing, further on my way.
This month's beautiful illustration was created by Paulette.
English Book Club - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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“Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.”
https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/don-quixote-ebook.html
https://www.ted.com/talks/ilan_stavans_why_should_you_read_don_quixote/transcript?language=en
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/7-reasons-why-don-quixote-should-be-on-your-summer-reading-list/
https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/don-quixote-ebook.html
https://www.ted.com/talks/ilan_stavans_why_should_you_read_don_quixote/transcript?language=en
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/7-reasons-why-don-quixote-should-be-on-your-summer-reading-list/
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I thought so.
Elinor - Paulette - Alexa - Praveen - Hermine - Berimih - April
Elinor - lentils (ˈlɛnt(ə)lz)
Paulette - argument - curate (not ate) - finikin - lachrymose - no (not now) - artifice - Hercules - affable - stole (not stool) - country - roaming - peril - Emperor - pleasant
Alexa - belonged - scoured - closed - deficiency - contrived - helmet - disconcerted - iron (silent r) - perfect (stress) - Bucephalus
Praveen - Recollecting (not re-) - honour (silent h) - christened - cleave (v) -
" one onslaught "
Hermine - preliminaries - redress - dawning - terrible - chivalry - ermine - comforting - adventurer - rubicund (ˈruːbɪk(ə)nd/) - mellifluous - Presently - obduracy
Don Quixote of La Mancha - Rocinante - Dulcinea
Berimih - other - travelled (silent e) - remarkable - ascertained - shepherds (not ship) - perceived (silent e) - reached - women - chanced - halt - seemed (silent e) - checked (silent e) - perceived (silent e) - pasteboard - bearing - wax indignant
April - incomprehensible - cavalier - laughter - suffice (not like surface) - sprightliness - necessity
Elinor - used to - inside (not insight) - ribbons (ˈrɪb(ə)nz - not like "on") - praise (not prize) -
Alexandra - wits - younger (g) - Curing-grounds - precinct - Seville - nimbleness (silent e in the middle) - love - farthing -though (not thought)
Scooby - hurts (not hats) - squires - saddle-bags - expected - scrupulously - began (not begin) - contemplated - paced (silent e) - novice - art (old fashioned for are "thou art" you are) - presents (to present / a present) -
words (not wards) - picked up
"knights of old" (Watch out for the word "of")
Hermine - trough - actually /ˈaktʃəli,ˈaktʃʊəli/ - braced (not like braised) - thy (not like they - old fashioned word for you) - fling - ye (old fashioned you) - assailants - composure - audacity - accolade
Paulette - menaced - where (not were) - fortunate (not like ate) - meant (past of to mean) - buckled - exhilarated - determined
- labourer - squire - towards
" as if he was saying his prayers " (if)
April - cause (not coze) - niggardliness - annihilate - Saint
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Page 79 / 72 - "Consider what you are saying, senor," said the youth; "this master of mine
is not a knight, nor has he received any order of knighthood; for he is Juan
Haldudo the Rich, of Quintanar."
By the way, I do think 'ray' is a spelling mistake. Look at this: "he would FLAY me like a Saint Bartholomew" - https://books.google.pl/books?id=XwZ3QEs1wsEC&pg=RA1-PA11&dq=flay+me+like+saint+bartholomew&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimk4-p-LzxAhXDvosKHdV0CcEQ6AEwA3oECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=flay%20me%20like%20saint%20bartholomew&f=false
'Flay' makes sense - "In art Bartholomew is most commonly depicted with a beard and curly hair at the time of his martyrdom. According to legends, he was skinned alive and beheaded so is often depicted holding his flayed skin or the curved flensing knife with which he was skinned; thus, he is remembered and approved as saint of leather makers."
I also liked it to play the roles of the characters out of the books I read and I then also wore then the clothes I found in the cubboard of my grandma who lived with us.Her clothes were very special and old fashioned. They were a bit belle-epoque style.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of my favourites.
Paulette - Juan - refuses (s) - give (g) - oath (the) - undoer - command (not like comment) - flay (not flea) - repaid (not like repeat) - towards -
"Andres went off rather down in the mouth,"
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Elinor - road (not rod) - muleteers ˌmjuːlɪˈtɪəz
no bigger than a grain of wheat (not a wheat)
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Alexandra - humpbacked - ye - helmet - cowards (not co- cow) - stretched - nature - blood - remaining (not reminding)
rained (silent e) - cudgelled
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Praveen - unable - thrashed - well-nigh - horse (be careful) - about (not aboot (Scottish) - known - young men - miracles - case (soft s) - wounded - woods - uttered - liege (not like league) - loves - nonsense (soft s) - wiped (not whipped) -
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Learn Lots - breastplate - wound (not wand) - contrived - horse! HORSE! - bridle- ass ASS! - bruises - peasant (not pissant) - devil - ailed - written - ever (not like even) - village - confusion - curate (not like to curate) - constantly - quest
" only the devil himself that put into his head tales to match his own adventures"
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Hermine - neice (not knees) - sword (silent w) - precious - sage - vagaries - valiant (not violent) - contrive - licentiate
".. for that was what he needed most"
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Berimih - authors (th) - simplicity (sim) - any (not inny) - chivalry (soft ch) - great (not greet) - lineage - bedevilled involved
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"In that case," said the housekeeper, "here, into the yard with them!"
They were handed to her, and as there were many of them, she spared
herself the staircase, and flung them down out of the window.
Page 90
"Nevertheless, I say he who wrote it, for deliberately composing such fooleries, deserves to be sent to the galleys for life. Take it home with you and read it, and you will see that what I have said is true."
Paulette - tub (not tube) - author (th) - might - famous - wove
Elinor - loyal (not like "Al") - admirable (ˈadm(ə)rəb(ə)l/ not like to admire) - knight (silent k) - witticisms
Alexa - these - curate - singing - entitled - author - condemned - read
Hermine - precious - eclogues ˈek-ˌlȯg - presents (as in to present) - Juan - tired (not like tie red) - fables - remained (not reminded)
April - fatigued - archives - examiner - despatch -
Berimih - great (not greet) - endeavours (end not in) - shorn - beards (not birds) - kindling (not like kind) - knights-errant - observed (silent e) - occur
"to sally forth"
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Listeners - Praveen
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Page 100 - Don Quixote next set about getting some money; and selling one thing and
pawning another, and making a bad bargain in every case, he got together a
fair sum.
'To drive one's heels in the castle of a mule'. The only thing I need is a mule.
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mind (not mend) - mislead - presently - instantly - reply (not replay) - brought - treated
thou art - you are
Elinor - suits (to suit - /suːt/) - suitable
Alexandra - war - turned - vanquishing (stress) - wicked /ˈwɪkɪd/ - read (not like rid) - bough - mean (not like meant) -
fortunate - bowels (not bowls) - ailed (not like allied) - knights -
April - draught - among /əˈmʌŋ/ - remedy (stress) - nourishment /ˈnʌrɪʃm(ə)nt/ - folk - thou (not like though) - assailant -
precept - St. Benedict
"alforjas
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Page 108 - Don Quixote understood him quite well, and answered him very quietly, "If
thou wert a knight, as thou art none, I should have already chastised thy folly and rashness, miserable creature." #Don Quixote
Elinor - splitting - half (not like have) - spoils - unwilling (not unfeeling) -
the Biscayan declared in his disjointed phrase that if they did not let him finish his battle - did not...
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Paulette - terrific (stress) - furious - blows (not like blouse) - toe (top to toe) - precedent (not like president) - sages (voiced e) - secret (not like to secrete) - inasmuch - jealousy - hood (not hod) - praise (not prize) - attentively - occurred
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April - scraps (scr) - characters (stress) - despatch -
"turning the Arabic offhand into Castillian" - not turning to ...
" in little more than a month and a half"
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Hermine - additions - deliberately (not like a deli) - wholly - warning - fault - valiant - combatants - fiery - fury (not like fur) - sufficed - dealt (not like deal) - smiting (from to smite) - mule - stirrups
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Alexandra - presenting (from to present) - coach - hastened - earnest entreaties - sparing (from to spare - not like to spar) - truth - present (not like a present) - faith (not like fate) - island (not Iceland) - returned (silent e) - governed islands
Page 116 - To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must take notice, brother Sancho, that this adventure and those like it are not adventures of islands, but of crossroads, in which nothing is got except a broken head or an ear the less: have
patience, for adventures will present themselves from which I may make you, not only a governor, but something more."
Paulette - ass (not ash) - refuge (not re-) - arraigned - overthrowing - flows - dispensed
"where hast thou ever seen or heard that a knight-errant has been arraigned before a court of justice, however many
homicides he may have committed?" (however many)
I can neither read nor write, (not or)
Elinor - balsam - nicety (voiced e) -
"taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly ..." (fit it on)
Scooby - Senor - devil - oath - do not (t) - art (t) - fail (not fill) - make (k) - victuals (like vittels) - read (past tense) - wilds
- pervert - worship (not warship) - fields - those (s) - practice - satisfaction
Hermine - fragrance - skins - trough - relish - cough - renounce (not re-) - exalteth (to exalt) - squires (silent e) - sheepskins - constantly - in sight (not inside) - iron - produce
skin
April - inclemency - crooked plough - wreathed - artifices ˈɑːtɪfɪs - verbiage - pervert (to pervert / a pervert) - gallantry (stress) - succour - harangue həˈraŋ/ - acorns
Alexandra - musicians - felled oak (not feel) - thine - ceases (not seizes) - suit - pleased (silent e)
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Page 127
Or of how I roundly swore it
That there's none so fair as thou;
True it is, but as I said it,
By the girls I'm hated now.
" jfrench (Staff)
12 days ago - marked as answer 7 days ago by Stellar2018
Not great news ahead sadly.
(1) At this time, the next two courses do not exist so you cannot batch upgrade.
(2) 2U is acquiring edX in October likely, so there are some questions from our faculty of whether or not we wish to continue on edX or move to MIT online (an MIT only hosting site that does not exist yet...). This is yet to be determined, so I don't even know if this course will be on edX or not!"