Well, it's been a bit of a mixed bag, this chapter. It began with so much promise, and descended into a series of cheap tricks, and postponed articles. Very much like the most recent TMA (Tutor-marked Assignment) I've had to do for my OU (Open University) course. Perhaps more on that later... I really should have done a lot better on this chapter, but the mood hasn't taken me, and this assignment has been taking up time and will-power, hence the postponements. Yeah, I didn't even manage to get the articles written in time, as per my pact. That at least could have salvaged the chapter from what it has become, but I couldn't even manage that.
Never mind, it isn't all doom and gloom. The chapter's over, we can move onto some extracurricular topics for a while, and this damn assignment is out of the way. But it was sent in late, and I now have just over three weeks to study for and write the next one. It's all fun and games on this course, you know. Like a flaming roller coaster that spins you around and around, and spits you out cold and dishevelled at the other end. But it hasn't been all that bad, really. I've been introduced to Euripides (via his Ancient Greek tragedy Medea), Bernard Shaw (by way of his scathing comic play Pygmalion), and Jean Rhys (through her intoxicating novel Wide Sargasso Sea). In fact, I think I may have fallen in love with Jean Rhys. At least with this beautiful photograph of her:
Word of the Week
Epilogue
epilogue n. 1 a the concluding part of a literary work. b an appendix. 2 a speech or short poem addressed to the audience by an actor at the end of a play. 3 Brit. a short piece at the end of a day's broadcasting.
Definition courtesy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary
A speech or short poem, eh? I might have to write a verse or two for my darling Jean Rhys. Of course, I'm joking, you know. I don't write poems about love.
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