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message 1: by Ruby (new)

Ruby Sure!


message 2: by Thom (last edited Mar 09, 2010 09:18PM) (new)

Thom Dunn FOOTNOTES: The Canterbury Tales "Geoffrey" is not Chaucer but a humble ordinary man who marvels in innocence at the people he meets, and he frames the entire journey.

Amadeus: The stageplay, NOT the movie: In the play, Salieri tells us his story in flashback, he is both Narrator and Protagonist. Mozart is a central character but is set in the background of memory.

Our Town: No "Stage Manager", no story.

Glass Menagerie: Is a play set in Tom Wingfield's memory. His epilogue renders both him and his sister Laura as siblings locked in a poignant family tragedy.

Henry V: The "Prologue" sets the play in the past, focusses our attention on King Henry , and interpolates throughout calling upon us to "deck out" the 'little wooden O' and the 'unworthy scaffold' with our imaginations.


message 3: by Ruby (new)

Ruby Wow, so many books to be added to my to read list! :-)


message 4: by Thom (new)

Thom Dunn Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "T,
After I read the notes about your additions to the "unique narrators" list, I decided not to stifle my urge to share one of the many "great" moments in the history of my daughter's secondary s..."


And they say we'll never catch up to the Japanese. With sophistry like Ms Bell's, how can we fail ?


message 5: by Thom (last edited Mar 10, 2010 06:11AM) (new)

Thom Dunn Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "Before there was "No Child Left Behind," there was
"No Teacher Left Behind." Now we're a nation of behinds. What's a head?"


Linguistics class, 1963, on the importance of suprasegmental phonemes:

What's that in the road ahead ?

What's that in the road, a head ??!


.....And BTW, We have a Congress full of Behinds, including at least one of the Heads. Go figure.


message 6: by Tiago (new)

Tiago Please add Mary Shelley's Frankenstein


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."


message 8: by Susan (new)

Susan If you want the most unique narrator ever, take a look at Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden (I just added to the list). I kid you not - the book is narrated by a TOWN. And it happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous, amazing book.


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