She's Baaaaaaaaaaack!!!

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  1. DevoVamp

    DevoVamp New Member

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    :eek: :eek: :D Hey guys!!! I know it's been FOREVER since I've been here, but between having to get a new computer tower (and therefore loosing all my bookmarks! :eek: :eek: ) and my thesis work and my own personal annus horribuls, I've been very busy. But, I'm happy to make the following announcement:

    THE PH.D THESIS IS DONE (except for binding it) AND I'M BACK IN FINE FORM, THANK YOU!!

    SEVEN YEARS OF WORK BUT IT'S OVER!!!!!

    All I have to do now is defend it!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

    Pardon me while I do a happy dance..........................!
     
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  2. Melek Taos

    Melek Taos New Member

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    What is it about?

    (Says she who is too much easily distracted to make a worthy scholar)
     
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  3. Dirk Daring

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    Wow, its been ages! Welcome back. Funny how you're seemingly at the twilight of your college stint, and I'm right at the very beginning of mine...........
     
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  4. DevoVamp

    DevoVamp New Member

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    Hey, guys!

    What can I say?? I'm happy to be back!! Have fun with school, Dirk, because, the one thing I've learned is that the further on you go, the more likely it is that you'll be able to study whatever the heck you want to.

    So, Melek, that leads me to answering your question: I wrote my thesis on the work of Anne Rice. You know, the "Interview with the Vampire" author. It's all about how the loss of her Catholic faith effected the entire body of her work, including her vampire fiction, her historical novels and even her pornographic works. The loss of her faith causes her to go into a state of melancholia (as defined by Freud) which, rather than letting her move on and accept the loss, causes her to keep trying to find a way to reclaim her faith and reconnect to God.

    This causes her to devleop an obession with "saving", both in a religious sense (as in salvation) but also in a literal sense, which involves her "saving" things like houses and family histories, etc. So, she uses her novels and her characters to "try out" different means of connecting to God, as well as using her books to perserve actual buildings by making them into "characters" in her books. The First St. house from the novel "The Witching Hour" was the acutal home Rice was moving into at the time, and the restoration she describes in the novel is based on the work that the Rices actually did at the time. So, even though the acutal house may very well be under water at this point, it continues to exist within the pages of the novel, so, it's immortal. Get it? The obession with saving appears in every book she writes, it's THE major theme from which all the other ones spring, including sexuality and androgyne. The vampires are perfect for looking at human society from a distance since they're actually outside the frame of human existance.

    Sorry, I love this stuff and I do tend to ramble. :rolleyes:
     
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  5. Melek Taos

    Melek Taos New Member

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    <shudders> Love her work or the analysis of it?
     
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  6. DevoVamp

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    Both, actually! I'm not sure if that makes me mad, pathetic, or both!!!! LOL!! :rolleyes: :D :D
     
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