HUD HUDSON
Now Xerxes is not opposed, in principle, to interspecies
romance.
She even fondly remembers having a coffee or two with her
friend, Ferdinand,
who was charming enough but in the end a bit too
Earthy for her. Xerxes thinks this novel
on the subject from the '30s is a little treasure. Emily,
the heroine, is unforgettable.
Here she is explaining why she has not revealed her
intellectual accomplishments
to her unreflective owner with whom she is thoroughly in love.
"Why did she not now reveal her talents to Mr. Fatigay?
From this delicate motive:
so that when he met her, barefooted as it were, at the
altar, and there bestowed
upon her apparent nothingness and poverty the right to
clothe herself henceforth
in his material and mental grandeur, she might then surprise
and gratify him by revealing
that she was not altogether so dowerless as he had supposed,
since, though she came
to him bare of gold and jewels and securities, she brought
with her the treasure of a
well-stocked mind, a possession which, all the books said,
was infinitely to be preferred."
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Any comments you might have for Xerxes
can be sent to Hud[dot]Hudson[at]wwu[dot]edu.
I will see to it that she receives them.
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Last week Xerxes was reading Lois Lowry's The Giver
The week before Xerxes was reading Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay
The week before Xerxes was reading Ralph Helfer's Modoc
The week before Xerxes was reading Stuart McLean's Home
From the Vinyl Cafe
The week before Xerxes was reading Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious
The week before Xerxes was reading George MacDonald's The Portent
The week before Xerxes was reading Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern are Dead
The week before Xerxes was reading Michael Phillips's George MacDonald
- A Biography
The week before Xerxes was reading Christopher Moore's The Stupidest
Angel
The week before Xerxes was reading Gordon Lightfoot's Minstrel of the
Dawn
The week before Xerxes was reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War
The week before Xerxes was reading Robert Graves's I Claudius
The week before Xerxes was reading Philip Ardagh's A House Called
Awful End
The week before Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Lost
The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye
The week before Xerxes was reading J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows
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Warp
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Athens
The week before Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
The week before Xerxes was reading e.e. cummings's anyone lived in a
pretty how town
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The week before Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's A Preface to Paradise
Lost
The week before Xerxes was reading Stephanie Plowman's The Road
to Sardis
The week before Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's
Cat
The week before Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
The week before Xerxes was reading T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock
The week before Xerxes was reading Matthew Scully's Dominion
The week before Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian
Gray
The week before Xerxes was reading the Prologue in Heaven from
Goethe's Faust
The week before Xerxes was reading Christina Rossetti's Goblin
Market
