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Post by cosmoblue on Jan 11, 2008 15:59:09 GMT -5
Okay so I am reading Don Juan and between Canto VII and VIII I am completely confused. What the heck happened? First Don Juan was dressed as a woman sleeping in a harem and then he was off to fight in a war? I don't understand how he escaped. I am only at the part where the city of ismael is taken and Don Juan has that little girl, but is it something that they will explain later or am I just supposed to imagine how he escaped the Sultana wanting to kill him and Dudu? I am pretty sure a lot of this confusion is because he changed publishers around this time, and when he digresses I sort of tend to tune out because I don't know enough history to know the people or the events that he is talking about.
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Post by cosmoblue on Feb 15, 2008 20:26:34 GMT -5
I am so losing interest in Don Juan. After I got confused it seems like Byron is rambling about politics more so than telling a story. I may have to take a break from it and read something else for a while.
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maudelynn
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Post by maudelynn on Feb 19, 2008 14:42:24 GMT -5
Okay so I am reading Don Juan and between Canto VII and VIII I am completely confused. What the heck happened? First Don Juan was dressed as a woman sleeping in a harem and then he was off to fight in a war? I don't understand how he escaped. I am only at the part where the city of ismael is taken and Don Juan has that little girl, but is it something that they will explain later or am I just supposed to imagine how he escaped the Sultana wanting to kill him and Dudu? I am pretty sure a lot of this confusion is because he changed publishers around this time, and when he digresses I sort of tend to tune out because I don't know enough history to know the people or the events that he is talking about. There are thoughts that the jump in that part is Byron pointedly making reference to a situation he found himself in where a woman he was linked to was put in a bag, draped on a horse and was being led to a death by beating, before Byron jumped in and saved her. The incident is a vague one in so far as how much fact is known about it, but was very important in Byron's mind.
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Post by cosmoblue on Apr 8, 2008 13:34:17 GMT -5
I finally finished reading this and I don't think I liked it much. I liked the beginning, but after I got all confused at the jump I couldn't get back into it.
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