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Hey, new member. Feel free to ignore this, it's mostly pointless rambling...
Name: Rowana
Location: West London, England
Sex: Firmly female
How you discovered Howl: I started off reading 'The lives of Christopher Chant' by the esteemed authoress, and Howl's Moving Castle followed.
Favourite line: "Busy old fool, unruly Sophie." Because Howl is paraphrasing from a line in another poem by John Donne, which goes 'Busy old fool, unruly Sun', and I like the way it's a compliment of sorts hidden in an insult.
Other fandoms you are part of: Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Crown Duel, Tamora Pierce, Phantom of the Opera...the list goes on
If you were an animal you would be: What, human's not animal enough? A black widow, knowing my luck. Or a cat, if I could choose, because they lead disgustingly easy lives.
Nice to meet everyone.
July 14 2005, 18:42:35 UTC 6 years ago
How literate of you!
I never got that allusion to Donne of Howl's. Some English major I am. XDThank you for pointing that out.
It also goes back to my recent pondering of Howl's university studies. Do you think he specialised in Literature? I shouldn't have thought so, what with his mistaking Donne for Raleigh in the curse, but I was trying to think what other category his thesis of charms and spells (I forget precisely what he said now, and the book's not in front of me, so I apologise if I got it wrong) could fall into. Anthropology, I suppose, depending on how it was done. But it seemed to me to be more text-based.
Any thoughts?
July 14 2005, 18:59:16 UTC 6 years ago
Re: How literate of you!
I'm afraid i'm guilty of being a bookworm, i spotted it one day flipping through a book of Donne's stuff. It's the first line in 'The Sun Rising'He may have specialised in literature and simply been flustered, but i doubt it. I've got no idea as to what could have included a 'doctoral thesis on charms and spells', although I've only just gotten my head around the fact that he is Dr Howell Jenkins.
July 14 2005, 19:34:29 UTC 6 years ago
Wonderful!
I'll have to look it up.
He may have specialised in literature and simply been flustered, but i doubt it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one, then.
I've got no idea as to what could have included a 'doctoral thesis on charms and spells'
Well, an anthropologist friend of mine wrote a paper on sympathetic magic in world culture, but again. I can't really see Howl as an anthropology specialist, either. XD I mean. It IS one of the most useless majors out there (along with Literature), but...
although I've only just gotten my head around the fact that he is Dr Howell Jenkins.
XD That makes one of us.
I just laugh, every time I think of it.
Maybe THAT's what I should tell
*laughs!*
July 15 2005, 14:03:40 UTC 6 years ago
July 15 2005, 16:08:36 UTC 6 years ago
*laughs* True!
Though I would've expected some kind of forensic archaeology comment about the skull, in that case.
But now I'm just getting nit-picky. ^^
I can't see Howl doing anything too serious, although I'm sure he can work when he wants to.
Something where slapdash doesn't spell disaster.
So if you don't think Howl was the Literature major, do you think his referencing The Sun Rising was more of a hint by DWJ through him? Or maybe he just knew that one because it was one of a group of sappy love poems he memorised with which to seduce women? *chuckles*
I was meant to be going but couldn't cough up the £90 needed to get there and back. Three lovely tickets going to waste...*sniff*.
Oh, that's awful. I'm sorry.
July 17 2005, 10:14:14 UTC 6 years ago
Folklore, perhaps?
There aren't many departments of folklore, but there are a few.July 18 2005, 03:26:28 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Folklore, perhaps?
But aren't departments of Folklore usually subsects of Anthropology departments?Hmm. I may have to look in to this. XD