After all these years, I have finally read, cover to cover, the entirety of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. All this time, I thought a scarlet “A” was the same as a crimson “A.”
I’m KIDDING, Dr. Beidler.
A grave error, corrected
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After all these years, I have finally read, cover to cover, the entirety of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. All this time, I thought a scarlet “A” was the same as a crimson “A.”
I’m KIDDING, Dr. Beidler.
Silly, there is MUCH MORE shame in the Crimson A.
I asked my husband if we were going to have to become Crimson Tide fans now that we’re moving to Alabama. His response? “Go Boomer Sooners!”
Fair warning: You WILL be asked, and will be expected to pick sides, between Alabama and Auburn. The Southeast takes football VERY seriously, and among native Alabamians and many transplants, there is no more passionately debated topic than this one.
You may be pitied for not liking grits or fried okra. You may be forgiven if you don’t know that damnyankee is one word. Any other team loyalties will be tolerated and sometimes even approved. But there is no neutral ground in the Alabama vs. Auburn battle.
Good luck! And Roll Tide. 😉
*snicker*
I lived in Arkansas long enough to understand certain Southern peculiarities (like the “damyankee” bit and the custom of saying “Bless her heart” when uttering some criticism behind the back of one’s best friend, because that makes it all right, donchaknow) as well as acquire a limited tolerance for fried okra. But I will never ever abide grits. And I rather doubt I’ll ever join the religious cult that is football in the Deep South. 🙂
We embrace our peculiarities! If our families don’t have madness, ghosts, or scandals, we invent them.
And you may be forgiven the grits-aversion as long as you have a deviled egg plate or three.
I guess I’ll do all right then. There are a number of skeletons lurking among the branches on my family tree, and my Southern pedigree is so nearly flawless I even qualify for Daughters of the Confederacy. Not to mention I make the devildest of deviled egg dishes and have the Tupperware tray in which to serve them.
Oh mercy, are we related?!? 😉
SEC loyalty forces me to root for them on January 7th. But it is very very galling.
It helps of course that they are playing the Hated Horns…but not much.
Aw, c’mon. It’s BAMA. We’ve had some lean and scandalous years to humble us, so let the celebrations commence!
I will do this cheerfully for you, my dear:
ROLL TIDE!
You’re a big man. =)
On a Hawthorne note … ARE YOU SERIOUS?! A Scarlet Letter was one of the books I fell in love with in high school. I loved the whole gothic quality of it, and Pearl — loved her as well. I have looked for a pretty scarlet A to cross stitch but haven’y ever found one. Alabama need not apply
Have you ever watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer?
No, thank you.
I only ask because it was/is unique and fresh and at the time was definitely a road less traveled.
oh … and Buffy hads “romantic relations” with TWO vampires.
I’m not anti-Buffy. It’s just that if I watched TV, I’d never get anything done. I already struggle with managing my time well (my fault, I assure you).
Well I have been inspired by your entry to watch it all over again … Starting with episode one. Who knows maybe next year I will knit you season one and two.
I am cursing my homemade gift oath now
… oh and your a girl, I think it is very hard for girls to be anti Buffy, because she totally rocks in her own flawed way
HA HA HA.
“A” is for Agassi, I assume. I don’t understand this obsession with tennis, but whatever.
Giggle.
A for me is for Aghast.
And again, (sigh) ROLL TIDE!
I had a Poe, Melville & Hawthorne semeinar in grad school. I liked House of Seven Gables better.
My most closely read Hawthorne novel was The Marble Faun.