What's the word I'm looking for?

**Risteard** · 06/03/2007, 1:26 PM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

Argue that Famous Five reflects a certain set of cultural values that were prominent at the time Blyton was writing.
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Never really get into that much depth becuase it's only 10,000 words, I'd probably do a lot different if I was to start it over.
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If I find a copy of it I'll send it to anyone that's interested.

Do please.
Sounds good and at 10,000 is very readable.
I'm not familiar with these allegations of racism.

Originally Posted by Poor Student

I recently completed a minor dissertation on the Causes of the Great Jewish Revolt 66 A.D. Comes in handy when people are talking nonsense about Jews of the 1st Century AD/BC on messageboards.

I loved researching it and hated writing it. Didn't even get to put down half the stuff I wanted and knew as I flew too close to even my extended deadline.

Is it big?
Was that written for a History Department?

**Lionel Ritchie** · 06/03/2007, 2:27 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Myself, my older bro, and my cousins used to play the Famous Five all the time. I was always Anne coz I was the youngest and the more feminine of us 2 girls.

I used watch the (1970's) Famous Five on Telly and although unsure as 7 year old Lionel was of what "a proper seeing to" was exactly -he was nonetheless certain he'd like to give that piece of posh totty Jennifer Tanner/Tannish (Anne) exactly that.

At art college I threatened to write a dissertation asserting that Football was a legitimate performance art ...my lecturers, knowing I was a chancer, threatened to fail me without reading it ...deciding discretion was indeed the better part of valour I backed off and wrote about John Hartfields photomontages instead.

**Poor Student** · 06/03/2007, 2:38 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Is it big?
Was that written for a History Department?

Not big at all, about 15k. It was for the Department of Classics. It's basically an aspect of Roman History.

**Risteard** · 06/03/2007, 5:07 PM

Great. Pm it to me if you can.
I did a course on Israel/Palestine conflict, have a huge interest in it yet still would be very slow to give my opinion on it. There's a lot to know.

**Lev Yashin** · 06/03/2007, 5:17 PM

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I'm not familiar with these allegations of racism.

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i heard this recently....i was an avid reader of enid blyton books when i was a nipper...of course i didn't see it then but i'd love to read your study of it even if it only touch's on the racist undertones.....might root out some of the old books and read them again just to see if i can spot anything...did the same apply to the secret seven i read them too!!!

but now im a big hard man..girls and booze and the like...

**Poor Student** · 06/03/2007, 7:15 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Great. Pm it to me if you can.
I did a course on Israel/Palestine conflict, have a huge interest in it yet still would be very slow to give my opinion on it. There's a lot to know.

I sent you a PM. It's too far removed in time from the modern conflict to tie in too much to it, though it does explain the initial exodus of Jews from the region which would lead to the large decline of the Jewish population in the area before the Jewish repopulation of the area in the late 1800s/early 1900s. It's also fascinating to see what the Jewish religion looked like before the crushing of the revolt.

**Risteard** · 06/03/2007, 10:41 PM

Good man.
Bedtime reading for me.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 07/03/2007, 9:07 AM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Myself, my older bro, and my cousins used to play the Famous Five all the time. I was always Anne coz I was the youngest and the more feminine of us 2 girls. The downside to that was that I always had to go last on anything we were doing including the time we were climbing over a half barn door at my granny's. There was a fertiliser bag thrown over the door and as the other 3 climbed to other side, it loosed from where it was resting so when I climbed over it slipped taking me face first onto concrete! God I was a mess for months!

Some would say you can still tell that I had that accident! (combined with my pony standing on my face they have good grounds!)

You mean you'd be even more gorgeous if that hadn't happened?

**CollegeTillIDie** · 07/03/2007, 9:10 AM

Enid Blyton's books are of their time. When she wrote them Britain had an Empire and imperialist ideas including master race type undertones were de rigeur. Fortunately a lot of those nonsensical racial superiority ideas got a deserved bad name thanks to the Nazis atrocities. Reading those things with the benefit of hindsight is not fair. What is also unfair is the attempt to make them PC. Perhaps they should be dropped into the dustbin of history. Not all literature transcends it's time. Enid Blyton, or at least some of her works, fall into this trap.

I mean for example the Noddy series has a character called Big Ears, which could be seen as being cruel to people like Gary Lineker...for instance....

**Magicme** · 07/03/2007, 9:14 AM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

You mean you'd be even more gorgeous if that hadn't happened?

*hits you over the head with the combined works of Enid Blyton*

**CollegeTillIDie** · 07/03/2007, 9:16 AM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

At art college I threatened to write a dissertation asserting that Football was a legitimate performance art ...my lecturers, knowing I was a chancer, threatened to fail me without reading it ...deciding discretion was indeed the better part of valour I backed off and wrote about John Hartfields photomontages instead.

Write that dissertation now Lionel you know you want to !