Cold Comfort Farm discussion

Hopefully this will work, its where we can add our thoughts as we read

OK, cool! Thank you :-)

About Mrs. Smiling's collection of brassieres "It was hoped that on her death it would be left to the nation" LOL!

was going to add that

I am a little startled by the casual use of Jew-shop, then I remember it was written in 1932

Her relatives are a hoot, 'would she mind if the parrot kept his corner of the attic ?

Child, child if you come to this doomed house, what is to save you ?

You're ahead of me. I'm laughing my head off about Flora "managing" not to learn to like games played at school, by staring at the trees & trying not to think of anything! Then, running *away* from the ball. Which, uh, I'm pretty sure I actually did a few times *ahem*. Or I pretended not to see it because I had no idea what to do with it ;-)

Also, I love "Mrs. Smiling nodded her approval, but she told Flora that she talked too much." Hah! Er, though that sounds a little too close for comfort too. *glances up at my word count compared to yours* *shuts up* ;D

"short brusque nicknames rather like the cries of strange animals" Ha!

I have read to chapt 2, and am now going to do the same with Comfort and Joy they are working well together. CCF makes me laugh and C+J is so poignant
will return this evening - my time about 7pm (that's 3pn for you I think)

Didn't read any today, immersed in C=J. Tomorrow id=s CCF day

I entirely failed to comment here on this yesterday! When I got to the part about the inhabitants of Cold Comfort Farm, I couldn't stop laughing. The whole "ominous" atmosphere is so over-the-top, & they are so determinedly morose & bizarre & "accursed". The first scene with Seth & his mother, him laughing defiantly at nothing & the porridge symbolically boiling over, omg.

At which point I realized, omg, it's like, "Wuthering Heights" he's "Heathcliff". Or maybe more like Hareton Earnshaw. Glowering into the porridge. LOL ;)

you are now in the lead, C+J I devoured.
I will be catching up later

he is a broody bugger seth.
In the film he was http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001722/?r...

Way to go, Karen and Pam

Karen wrote: "I am a little startled by the casual use of Jew-shop, then I remember it was written in 1932"

Funny, I'm Jewish, and that totally slipped past me.

I have to admit, I am made speechless by the insane conversation that opens Chapter V, about the cow, Graceless, losing a leg (!). Reuben going "Where is it!" & Mark Dolour saying he doesn't know "And if I did I wouldn't tell 'ee. I know what goes on in the hearts of the dumb beasts, wi'out spyin' round on them to see where they leave their legs, from morn til eve."

Wh-where they leave their legs?! Wha-at?!

Adam: "Leave me in peace, Robert Poste's child."

Flora: "Oh, all right. But I do wish you would call me Miss Poste. Or even Miss Flora, if you'd rather be all feudal. I do feel that 'Rober Poste's child' every time is rather a mouthful, don't you?"

Heh, I was wondering how long it would take her to get to that ;-D

After a day off yesterday I am back in tnis book

I love the porridge scene 'it might almost be endowed with life, so uncannily did its movements keep pace with the human passions that throbbed above it'.

Then Judith 'Do you want to break my heat ?'
'Yes' said Seth, with an elemental simplicity
The porridge boiled over

Pam/Peejakers wrote: "Adam: "Leave me in peace, Robert Poste's child."

Flora: "Oh, all right. But I do wish you would call me Miss Poste. Or even Miss Flora, if you'd rather be all feudal. I do feel that 'Rober Poste's..."

I love Adam, and that he's in tune with dumb animals

Also, Elfine