My last year of college is here

[amelia_petkova]

both quotes are from Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

"Janet found in her mind the words of some of Tolkien's people, discussing the story they were in and how they might end it. Bilbo had thought of, 'And they all lived happily ever after until they died. It is a good ending,' he had said, 'and none the worse for having been used before.' 'Ah!' said Sam, 'but where will they live? That's what I often wonder.' Janet wondered, too. For four years they would live here. After that, unless somebody made a prodigious and possibly miraculous effort, they would scatter to the four corners of the world, their fellowship broken, and do what all of them had done to be here in this roon now: find new friends. It seemed wasteful. Perhaps they could buy an island somewhere."

"Janet moved herself into the room she and Tina and Molly had secured...and had hardly put down her suitcases before she was assailed by a violent melancholy. This was her senior year. It was her last fall at Blackstock. All this time had gone by like a dream. You couldn't stay, unless like Thomas you had managed to much up your graduation requirements...
"'Our revels now are ended.' If you could call them revels. Yes, they had been that. Evans, Medeous, Ferris, Davison, Fleisher, had all served as Master of the Revels, each in his own manner, with her own flourishes, using his own language, her own music."

Comments

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

That's a book that I slowly but surely fell in love with (and being an English major helped a lot). I would have liked to experience some of the things she did, but I don't plan on hooking up with my roommate's former boyfriend, getting pregnant, and then hauling him off a horse so he won't be used as a sacrifice to the Classics department. :-)

The Thomas Canty cover for the copy I have is lovely.

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

ROFL! None of those are in my repertoire, but that close knit set of friends, the setbacks, ghost hunts (namely our freshman year...my roommate and I (and our suitemate) were convinced there was a ghost in our dorm--and we combed the archives in search of when/why there might be. A lot of little things like that coincided so closely with my own college experience that it made me adore the book.

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

I was convinced that my freshman dorm was haunted, too. Never found anything out about my building, but there is another dorm on my campus that is supposed to be haunted by a boy who drowned the summer before he was going to live there.