Status Updates From Emily Brontë: Heretic

This is the medicine

"Wuthering Heights is not exclusively a romantic or Romantic love-story... the tragedy of her character consists in their rising against human and divine law in the name of a higher law, their self-licensing and self-glorification of a forbidden and boundless love"

ACH, Schlegel

White night (birds singing outside, damn them). Reading this book in the hopes it will put me to sleep. Absolutely no luck so far.

lengthy detailed analysis of horrible old Joseph as 'a species of antinomian' //wilts

Promised myself a Chrystery if I finished this book tonight. Then if I made it to page 200. Then page 150....

//stares at online edition of Lady Into Fox instead http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10337/...

//glares at book //glares at empty coffee cup //glares at cats wanting to be fed

KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE SCHLEGEL

reading this book reminds me of why I dropped out of litcrit in grad school

omg big hunks of Schlegel like bad plums in a fruitcake

....there are 'masculine readers to whom Wuthering Heights is profoundly dear'? srsly?

'Wuthering Heights is no Gothic castle with ramparts and crenellations but a working farm where folk are going about their business'

I'm only reading this book because Lucasta Miller praised it. FEH.

'The bifocal Emily Bronte is a second William Blake' //eyeroll