![]() = Where was I? No, I didn't really forget. = Break for call from Sunshine- I was hoping to get a chance to use the 'up a tree' line. Still, its not very considerate of Lori Lee, is it? At the moment doing the right thing for Lori is damned hard to commit to. I thought I could escape the vortex but I guess its an ineluctable aspect of the human condition. ![]() Craving for physical and emotional proximity to a separate, living and breathing, being. My karmic cycle is stuck in overdrive and I can't stop the spin cycle! (Mixed metaphors are part of my cycle too, I think.) Sunshine love or habit(make that craving. I wanted to point out that Buddhist doctrine(bad word - make it teachings!) really seems to jibe with what i keep going through. ![]() I need to reinvest in myself and pronto! No, that's not what I wanted to say. Or to put it plainly Habit is a soul killer. I think I might be doomed to fall into repeated doldrums strongly tied to a lack of diversity. Waning enthusiasm in every facet of life at this point. I desperately need to break through this malaise I'm in and pronto! Don't think I want to teach anymore although at heart I still love kids. This literary period is shared by George Eliot, whose epic novel Middlemarch (1872) is set, like “The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion,” in the English countryside and deals similarly with the issues of selfishness, provincialism, and the status of women.I have no idea what i want to say. Hardy’s work can be categorized alongside other contemporary writers as Victorian realism, a literary period defined by its attention to the everyday details of life and the rejection of the supernatural or melodramatic. One of Hardy’s most notable contemporaries was Charles Dickens, whose works such as David Copperfield (1849) and Great Expectations (1861) magnify, like “The Melancholy Hussar” does, the societal pressures and problems of the first half of the 19th century. Themes in “The Melancholy Hussar” can also be found in many of Hardy’s novels, particularly in Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), whose protagonist, similar to Phyllis Grove, represents the victimhood of women, and The Trumpet-Major (1880), which is set in the same Napoleonic time period. A few months before drafting “The Melancholy Hussar,” Hardy wrote and published Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories that focus on ideas of social class and rank, unwanted and unhappy marriages, and the status of women. “The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion” was written over the course of a few prolific years for Thomas Hardy. His cremated remains were interred in Westminster Abbey, though his heart was separated and buried in the churchyard of his home parish. He died at the age of 87, having been appointed a Member of the Order of Merit. Much of Hardy’s writing was set in southwestern England, a place he referred to in both his fiction and his poetry (which he always valued more highly) as “Wessex.” Two years after the death of his first wife, Emma, Hardy married Florence Emily Dugdale. Over the course of his first marriage, he published a prolific number of works, including the two novels widely considered to be his finest, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, with the encouragement and help of his wife-though their relationship was forced and distant for its final 20 years. The same year, Hardy married Emma Gifford against the wishes of both their families. ![]() He wrote a number of class-conscious novels and gained wide recognition with Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874. Primarily a poet at first, Hardy turned to prose when none of his verse found immediate publication. Upon his return, he began to devote his attention to writing. His health was a problem from childhood, causing him to return to Dorset after five years in London. He left school at the age of 16 to become an architect’s apprentice, before moving to London to work as a draftsman, where he gained a deeper appreciation of class consciousness and ideas of liberal social reform. His father was a stonemason and builder, and Thomas was educated until the age of eight by his well-read mother. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in a small hamlet in Dorset, England. ![]()
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