Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
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D. Spencer Hines
Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
"The only Uriah you resemble was surnamed Heap." [sic]
Peter Stewart -- 22 July 2005
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There he goes again!
Hilarious!
Peter 'Pogue' Stewart pretends to be a man of high learning and Great
Erudition -- although we know he couldn't even finish his undergraduate
degree and graduate from Oxford. He dropped out.
Here we find him flaunting his congenital ignorance and sloth in a new
field -- Literature.
Stewart has obviously never read Charles Dickens' _David Copperfield_, a
long-recognized classic of British Literature.
The character's name is Uriah HEEP -- not "HEAP".
Yet another pratfall for Peter The Poseur. Hoist with his own petar.
KAWHOMP!!!
KERSPLAT!!!
Deus Vult.
Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum.
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
Peter Stewart -- 22 July 2005
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There he goes again!
Hilarious!
Peter 'Pogue' Stewart pretends to be a man of high learning and Great
Erudition -- although we know he couldn't even finish his undergraduate
degree and graduate from Oxford. He dropped out.
Here we find him flaunting his congenital ignorance and sloth in a new
field -- Literature.
Stewart has obviously never read Charles Dickens' _David Copperfield_, a
long-recognized classic of British Literature.
The character's name is Uriah HEEP -- not "HEAP".
Yet another pratfall for Peter The Poseur. Hoist with his own petar.
KAWHOMP!!!
KERSPLAT!!!
Deus Vult.
Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum.
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
For once you are right, Hines, in small part - I have never read 'David
Copperfield' and have an allergy to Dickens that ensures I never will. (I
share this with your "cousin"Queen Elizabeth II.)
But I never said or implied that I had read him. Uriah Heep or Heap (I don't
know or care which) is a household name, a byword for hypocrisy and sneaking
duplicity.
Peter Stewart
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:AlQEe.192$qq6.1259@eagle.america.net...
Copperfield' and have an allergy to Dickens that ensures I never will. (I
share this with your "cousin"Queen Elizabeth II.)
But I never said or implied that I had read him. Uriah Heep or Heap (I don't
know or care which) is a household name, a byword for hypocrisy and sneaking
duplicity.
Peter Stewart
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:AlQEe.192$qq6.1259@eagle.america.net...
"The only Uriah you resemble was surnamed Heap." [sic]
Peter Stewart -- 22 July 2005
-----------------------
There he goes again!
Hilarious!
Peter 'Pogue' Stewart pretends to be a man of high learning and Great
Erudition -- although we know he couldn't even finish his undergraduate
degree and graduate from Oxford. He dropped out.
Here we find him flaunting his congenital ignorance and sloth in a new
field -- Literature.
Stewart has obviously never read Charles Dickens' _David Copperfield_, a
long-recognized classic of British Literature.
The character's name is Uriah HEEP -- not "HEAP".
Yet another pratfall for Peter The Poseur. Hoist with his own petar.
KAWHOMP!!!
KERSPLAT!!!
Deus Vult.
Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum.
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
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solitaire
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
D. Spencer Hines wrote:
That's "petard", son... sounds like you need a dictionary as well.
"The only Uriah you resemble was surnamed Heap." [sic]
Peter Stewart -- 22 July 2005
-----------------------
There he goes again!
Hilarious!
Peter 'Pogue' Stewart pretends to be a man of high learning and Great
Erudition -- although we know he couldn't even finish his undergraduate
degree and graduate from Oxford. He dropped out.
Here we find him flaunting his congenital ignorance and sloth in a new
field -- Literature.
Stewart has obviously never read Charles Dickens' _David Copperfield_, a
long-recognized classic of British Literature.
The character's name is Uriah HEEP -- not "HEAP".
Yet another pratfall for Peter The Poseur. Hoist with his own petar.
That's "petard", son... sounds like you need a dictionary as well.
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John Brandon
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
For once you are right, Hines, in small part - I have never read 'David Copperfield' and have an allergy to Dickens that ensures I never will. (I share this with your "cousin"Queen Elizabeth II.)
Imagine someone who fancies himself a literary critic preferring
Rowling to Dickens! That's similar to finding that Iris Murdoch a
better writer than Henry James ...
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Imagine someone who thinks himself intelligent jumping to the conclusion
that I must "prefer" Rowling to Dickens!
I said I have a distaste for reading the latter - this is mainly due to the
lurid and mawkish caricatures that he gives instead of plausible
characterisations, in tales that are not aimed at children in the first
place.
The idea that Dickens, the popular literary phenomen of his day, should be
compared to a quite different one today is absurd. I was COMMISSIONED to
write about Rowling and have never read a word of hers by choice.
If I had to write a review of Dickens as a writer of scenarios for
dramatisation on film and TV, this would be full of glowing praise (not so
for Rowling). He was a genius, no doubt, but missed his mark in genre and in
time.
Peter Stewart
news:1122299317.435309.273450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
For once you are right, Hines, in small part - I have never read 'David
Copperfield' and have an allergy to Dickens that ensures I never will. (I
share this with your "cousin"Queen Elizabeth II.)
Imagine someone who fancies himself a literary critic preferring
Rowling to Dickens! That's similar to finding that Iris Murdoch a
better writer than Henry James ...
Imagine someone who thinks himself intelligent jumping to the conclusion
that I must "prefer" Rowling to Dickens!
I said I have a distaste for reading the latter - this is mainly due to the
lurid and mawkish caricatures that he gives instead of plausible
characterisations, in tales that are not aimed at children in the first
place.
The idea that Dickens, the popular literary phenomen of his day, should be
compared to a quite different one today is absurd. I was COMMISSIONED to
write about Rowling and have never read a word of hers by choice.
If I had to write a review of Dickens as a writer of scenarios for
dramatisation on film and TV, this would be full of glowing praise (not so
for Rowling). He was a genius, no doubt, but missed his mark in genre and in
time.
Peter Stewart
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John Brandon
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
Imagine someone who thinks himself intelligent jumping to the conclusion
that I must "prefer" Rowling to Dickens!
I think that is the inescapable conclusion, as you praised her while
calling him a writer of lurid and mawkish caricatures.
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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What unimaginable foolishness - you can't escape from your own feeble
musings, perhaps, but this doesn't make them sensible or compelling to share
with the public.
I said my survey of four CHILDREN's books by Rowling was "quite favourable",
and that she showed an undoubted genius in conceiving rather than in writing
them. I have not read another word of hers since, and probably never will.
I have read more than four books by Dickens, unbidden, with enough
displeasure to know that I don't wish to read them all. My personal tastes
are NOT the sole burden & purpose of my literary reviews, although not
excluded from these.
Peter Stewart
news:1122331506.378495.71440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Imagine someone who thinks himself intelligent jumping to the conclusion
that I must "prefer" Rowling to Dickens!
I think that is the inescapable conclusion, as you praised her while
calling him a writer of lurid and mawkish caricatures.
What unimaginable foolishness - you can't escape from your own feeble
musings, perhaps, but this doesn't make them sensible or compelling to share
with the public.
I said my survey of four CHILDREN's books by Rowling was "quite favourable",
and that she showed an undoubted genius in conceiving rather than in writing
them. I have not read another word of hers since, and probably never will.
I have read more than four books by Dickens, unbidden, with enough
displeasure to know that I don't wish to read them all. My personal tastes
are NOT the sole burden & purpose of my literary reviews, although not
excluded from these.
Peter Stewart
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Dora Smith
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
I really don't like Dickens, but David Copperfield was wroth struggling
through just once. Atleast if your father came from another planet and
named you after Dora.... (chuckle).
Uriah Heap was a champion all time slime ball. EVerything about him was
slimy.
Finally one of these messages shows up wearing a source! Some of my
gen-medieval mail comes through the newsgroup, and I get in my mailbox
something that came from some anonymous newsgroup and will only reply to
noone.
Dora
At 06:48 AM 7/25/05 -0700, John Brandon wrote:
through just once. Atleast if your father came from another planet and
named you after Dora.... (chuckle).
Uriah Heap was a champion all time slime ball. EVerything about him was
slimy.
Finally one of these messages shows up wearing a source! Some of my
gen-medieval mail comes through the newsgroup, and I get in my mailbox
something that came from some anonymous newsgroup and will only reply to
noone.
Dora
At 06:48 AM 7/25/05 -0700, John Brandon wrote:
For once you are right, Hines, in small part - I have never read 'David
Copperfield' and have an allergy to Dickens that ensures I never will. (I
share this with your "cousin"Queen Elizabeth II.)
Imagine someone who fancies himself a literary critic preferring
Rowling to Dickens! That's similar to finding that Iris Murdoch a
better writer than Henry James ...
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
Dora Smith wrote:
I'm glad you found it rewarding, Dora, but nothing could persuade me to
read it. The movie with Edna May Oliver is good enough for me.
There are too many great works by contemporaries of Dickens for me to
miss anything by avoiding him. If ever I wish to read a 19th-century
pantomime novel with some real pay-off as social commentary, Balzac or
Gogol will do me fine.
My father came from this planet and is still busy doing good on it,
thanks. Did yours go back to his own world? Maybe Richardson is in
touch with him through his UFO network.
Peter Stewart
I really don't like Dickens, but David Copperfield was wroth struggling
through just once. Atleast if your father came from another planet and
named you after Dora.... (chuckle).
I'm glad you found it rewarding, Dora, but nothing could persuade me to
read it. The movie with Edna May Oliver is good enough for me.
There are too many great works by contemporaries of Dickens for me to
miss anything by avoiding him. If ever I wish to read a 19th-century
pantomime novel with some real pay-off as social commentary, Balzac or
Gogol will do me fine.
My father came from this planet and is still busy doing good on it,
thanks. Did yours go back to his own world? Maybe Richardson is in
touch with him through his UFO network.
Peter Stewart
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
solitaire wrote:
No, Hines is quite correct in spelling this "petar" if he pleases.
The only early edition of Hamlet to give the phrase he quoted was the
Second Quarto, as follows:
"....let it worke,
For tis the sport to haue the enginer
Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard
But I will delue one yard belowe their mines,
And blowe them at the Moone..."
If anyone knows what it feels like to be hoist with his own petar(d),
undermined, and blown at the moon, it is Hines.
Peter Stewart
That's "petard", son... sounds like you need a dictionary as well.
No, Hines is quite correct in spelling this "petar" if he pleases.
The only early edition of Hamlet to give the phrase he quoted was the
Second Quarto, as follows:
"....let it worke,
For tis the sport to haue the enginer
Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard
But I will delue one yard belowe their mines,
And blowe them at the Moone..."
If anyone knows what it feels like to be hoist with his own petar(d),
undermined, and blown at the moon, it is Hines.
Peter Stewart
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D. Spencer Hines
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
Hilarious!
More Wishful Thinking From Pogue Peter.
Deeeeelightful!
Peter is like a drunken gambler who hopes his ticket will come in a
winner in the lottery -- which was the same fatal fault he revealed when
he lost the Family Fortune on the horses.
DSH
"Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1122354775.991043.82050@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| solitaire wrote:
|
| > That's "petard", son... sounds like you need a dictionary as well.
|
| No, Hines is quite correct in spelling this "petar" if he pleases.
|
| The only early edition of Hamlet to give the phrase he quoted was the
| Second Quarto, as follows:
|
| "....let it worke,
| For tis the sport to haue the enginer
| Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard
| But I will delue one yard belowe their mines,
| And blowe them at the Moone..."
|
| If anyone knows what it feels like to be hoist with his own petar(d),
| undermined, and blown at the moon, it is Hines.
|
| Peter Stewart
More Wishful Thinking From Pogue Peter.
Deeeeelightful!
Peter is like a drunken gambler who hopes his ticket will come in a
winner in the lottery -- which was the same fatal fault he revealed when
he lost the Family Fortune on the horses.
DSH
"Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1122354775.991043.82050@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| solitaire wrote:
|
| > That's "petard", son... sounds like you need a dictionary as well.
|
| No, Hines is quite correct in spelling this "petar" if he pleases.
|
| The only early edition of Hamlet to give the phrase he quoted was the
| Second Quarto, as follows:
|
| "....let it worke,
| For tis the sport to haue the enginer
| Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard
| But I will delue one yard belowe their mines,
| And blowe them at the Moone..."
|
| If anyone knows what it feels like to be hoist with his own petar(d),
| undermined, and blown at the moon, it is Hines.
|
| Peter Stewart
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John Brandon
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
My father came from this planet and is still busy doing good on it,
thanks. Did yours go back to his own world? Maybe Richardson is in
touch with him through his UFO network.
Hmmm, a clue ... I guess that rules out your being Peter Rose, as his
father died a few years back (there was a very touching webpage on it).
But maybe you're fibbing about this to cover up your 'true' identity
.... Hmmm, I wonder. ... Ah, who cares ...
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Better luck next time.
Peter Rose is highly regarded for his quiet dignity and good manners,
qualities that I would never lay claim to and don't wish for in the
slightest.
If you were capable of making a half-way decent stab in the dark you might
have tried linking me to Peter Craven, a much more combative literary critic
in Australia. But there too you would be far, far astray.
You might also stop to consider that Peter is not an uncommon name, and that
if it were a pseudonym there could be no good reason to suppose that it is
mine anyway. If it comes to that, I might be called Stewart Peter. Or my
name might even be....Richardson!
But as you say, who cares?
Peter Stewart
news:1122376513.956530.21190@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
My father came from this planet and is still busy doing good on it,
thanks. Did yours go back to his own world? Maybe Richardson is in
touch with him through his UFO network.
Hmmm, a clue ... I guess that rules out your being Peter Rose, as his
father died a few years back (there was a very touching webpage on it).
But maybe you're fibbing about this to cover up your 'true' identity
... Hmmm, I wonder. ... Ah, who cares ...
Better luck next time.
Peter Rose is highly regarded for his quiet dignity and good manners,
qualities that I would never lay claim to and don't wish for in the
slightest.
If you were capable of making a half-way decent stab in the dark you might
have tried linking me to Peter Craven, a much more combative literary critic
in Australia. But there too you would be far, far astray.
You might also stop to consider that Peter is not an uncommon name, and that
if it were a pseudonym there could be no good reason to suppose that it is
mine anyway. If it comes to that, I might be called Stewart Peter. Or my
name might even be....Richardson!
But as you say, who cares?
Peter Stewart
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John Brandon
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
If you were capable of making a half-way decent stab in the dark you might
have tried linking me to Peter Craven ...
Yes, I had thought of that. But I didn't find Mr. Craven's style
pompous enough to be a match with yours.
But as you say, who cares?
True that.
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Peter Stewart
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[I wrote:]
Another miss - Craven is far more pompous than Rose.
So why can't you drop it, after more than a week of piffle on the subject?
Peter Stewart
news:1122382166.217441.225210@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[I wrote:]
If you were capable of making a half-way decent stab in the dark you
might
have tried linking me to Peter Craven ...
Yes, I had thought of that. But I didn't find Mr. Craven's style
pompous enough to be a match with yours.
Another miss - Craven is far more pompous than Rose.
But as you say, who cares?
True that.
So why can't you drop it, after more than a week of piffle on the subject?
Peter Stewart
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John Brandon
Re: Uriah Heep -- In David Copperfield
So why can't you drop it, after more than a week of piffle on the subject?
Consider it dropped, my dear Peter.