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first real monday of the year! (to me). and first to do list:

write bibliography for met draft

graphic design a2

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bake and freeze oatmeal cookies

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Often called the Spanish Romeo and Juliet, the story of the star-crossed lovers Calixto and Melibea (From the play: La Celestina) is another one of my favorite romantic tragedy. Here's a fragment of the movie filmed in 1996.

If interested only in the interaction of the lovers, skip until 3:37

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Honestly wondering: how could la Celestina be a favourite book for you? Why did you decide to read it?? (As a Spanish person that's only met people who read la Celestina in school. Like... There are some spanish classics (la Vida es sueño, realist novels, even el Quijote) that I could see people reading for fun/leisure but... To me la Celestina has never been among them)

Read it for my picaresque literature class. Really liked how it depicted witchcraft, the pseudo-sympathetic framing of Celestina herself, and all the asides to the reader the characters would make. There are other books I read in that class that I might’ve liked more (Lazarillo de Tormes, Moscow to the End of the Line, The Thief’s Journal), but none of them have stuck in my mind so long and inspired my own fantastical sensibilities.

Plus, none of the other books I read predated the novel itself, so I could use them for the “been out for awhile already” joke.

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