Suitcase

I just returned all my books with a suitcase guys...

Tense...

I'm editing my Reception essay right now, and I keep getting lost in my tenses. When I'm within a work of criticism, I tend to use present tense, but because the Reception essay is placing the criticism in its historic context, I keep switching back and forth and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Anonymous Victorian Magazine Articles

Are they cited the way they are listed in the Critical Heritage?

37. Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 31 Necember 1891, 3

Or just the same MLA format as for an anonymous book mashed together with the Magazine citation?

I looked over the example Reception Essay from class because I remembered it quoting an anonymous review, but I could find her citation for it anywhere.

Skyfall

So I saw Skyfall this weekend, the new James Bond movie, and there is this scene where he is sitting in an Art Gallery (I'm assuming the National Gallery) when Q sits down next to him and they begin  reflecting on the art Bond sat down to observe.

And then I freak out for a minute, because Bond is sitting in front of the work of J.M.W Turner, the painter I wrote the Contexts assignment on. They are comparing him to the ship in The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up (1838)

And right next to it is Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway (one of the paintings I (and Hardy) wrote about):

Again with Shakespeare

Andrew Lang compared Mrs. Durbeyfield and Sir John Falstaff as being a common type of character in his response to Hardy's response in the one-volume edition's preface to his original review of Tess:

But where a novelist, or a poet, deals with a very unscientific character, like Mrs. Durbeyfield or Sir John Falstaff, then the use of psychological terminology seems to my sense out of place." (Lang)

It's very much like what Kelsey commented on before (Bill Bill Bill), but that Shakespeare is everywhere in both the texts and the reviews. Admittedly, Hardy did a lot of the connecting himself, with his Two Gents epigram and Lear preface defense, but the reviewers continually compare (and contrast) Tess to "the Lear or the Othello," or, as W.P. Trent does, draw hope for Hardy's future career by following a perceived parallel to "Shakspere." I'm remembering one reviewer calling Tess a "shakespearean" woman but I can't seem to find which one again at the moment.

Library Books...

I'm not sure what to do. I'm considering at this point just keeping them through the end of the semester and hoping the fines aren't too bad. I have letters tabbed and multiple assignments left. And I could go through, write down every page I tabbed, take out all my color-coded flags, and recheck it out, but then I'd be doing that rather than my work and I'm still working on the contexts essay.

I will return them Library! I promise! (...just probably not this Thursday.)

I need a bigger desk...