Well, my dear friends, after 17 days and 17 posts, I have managed to annotate the first 3 1/2 pages of The Prologue to The Virgin in the Garden!
I suppose at this rate i might finish this project in 10 years. Things have got to pick up a bit. I'm having a ball, incidentally, but i do want to press on and more swiftly make it through the heavily-reference-studded Prologue.
I hope that all of you are enjoying this as much as i am, though i doubt that anyone could enjoy it more.
A. Bednarowicz
Editor
Saturday, 30 May 2009
That Mystifying UK School System
"Did you know that you are now an established O level set text?"
[Presumably one or more of Alexander's plays are being used in the O level test for "English" (?)]
"The O-level (Ordinary Level) is a subject-based qualification, usually taken at the age of fifteen/sixteen, conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education (GCE).
It was introduced as part of British educational reform in the 1950s alongside the more in-depth and academically rigorous A-level (Advanced Level). England, Wales and Northern Ireland replaced O-levels with GCSE exams in 1988.
The O-level was predominantly exam-based. This was advantageous for students in part-time or evening education. There was no summative "school certificate": each subject was a separate O-level in its own right.
O levels exams are often required as predecessors to A levels and by many employers as a minimum qualification for employment. A-level exams are the minimum entrance qualification required by UK universities."
[culled from various sources on the internet]
[Presumably one or more of Alexander's plays are being used in the O level test for "English" (?)]
"The O-level (Ordinary Level) is a subject-based qualification, usually taken at the age of fifteen/sixteen, conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education (GCE).
It was introduced as part of British educational reform in the 1950s alongside the more in-depth and academically rigorous A-level (Advanced Level). England, Wales and Northern Ireland replaced O-levels with GCSE exams in 1988.
The O-level was predominantly exam-based. This was advantageous for students in part-time or evening education. There was no summative "school certificate": each subject was a separate O-level in its own right.
O levels exams are often required as predecessors to A levels and by many employers as a minimum qualification for employment. A-level exams are the minimum entrance qualification required by UK universities."
[culled from various sources on the internet]
Pale Green Good Taste
"... a portrait of the late King, his Queen, and two princesses in vermillion lipstick, drooping skirts and sling-back shoes, all dwarfed entirely by the huge canvasful of pale green good taste and glitter of chandeliers and silver teapots in a drawing-room in Windsor ..."
Conversation piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor
by Sir James Gunn
oil on canvas, 1950
59 1/2 in. x 39 1/2 in.
King George VI (1895-1952), Reigned 1936-52.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002), Queen of George VI.
Queen Elizabeth II (1926-), Queen regnant.
Princess Margaret (1930-2002), Daughter of George VI; Countess of Snowdon.
Dressing Up
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