Mlle Myriel Bienvenu

[Mlle Bienvenu]

Hi! I'm Mlle... (or Milly as I have come to be called) I am a fourth year in college working towards an advanced degree in English. I want to be an english professor and I have interests in children's literature, mythology and folk literature, the study of symbolism (is that Semiotics? now I've forgotton :-P), and rhetoric. I'm extermely amused by language games: plays on words, anagrams, obscure words, and other such fun little do-dads.

Which brings me to why I like Harry Potter so much, because it practically covers every one of my interests...children's lit, myth, symbolism, rhetoric (jKR chooses her word oh so carefully and all the fun little language games, the most obvious being TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE = I AM LORD VOLDEMORT anagram.

I also enjoy classic literature, my favorite book is Les Miserables, I also enjoy singing, drawing, composing, and...of course, writing.

I'm also part of the Phoenix Rising Team.

PS: A sou to whomever can guess where I got my name....hehe (Lolua cant answer, she already knows..... she knows, man.... )

[Lolua]

*knowing smirk* Ah, Mlle, I'm surprised.... you're always ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two...

*hums to self*

Semiotics... despite having had classes in Linguistics, the only person who ever tried to teach me Semiotics was my none-too-eloquent Art History professor, who definitely related it to symbolism. As far as I understand it, it's all that stuff about the relationship between signs/symbols and what they signify, and the difference between them. Like if I point to a German shepherd named Blinky and call it a "dog", does the sign "dog" correspond to just the signified Blinky, to all German shepherds, or what? And where do you draw the line between things carrying the sign "dog" and those we call "wolf"? If I draw a picture of a terrier and call it a dog, how are they both symbols for Blinky as a "dog"?

Yeah, I think that's it... I could be wrong. Big Brother will likely put in his two cents if he knows anything about it. Which he almost inevitably does, because he's always watching.

[Mlle Bienvenu]

Lolua said:

*knowing smirk* Ah, Mlle, I'm surprised.... you're always ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two...

Or let'em borrow some candlesticks....

*hums to self*

Semiotics... despite having had classes in Linguistics, the only person who ever tried to teach me Semiotics was my none-too-eloquent Art History professor, who definitely related it to symbolism. As far as I understand it, it's all that stuff about the relationship between signs/symbols and what they signify, and the difference between them. Like if I point to a German shepherd named Blinky and call it a "dog", does the sign "dog" correspond to just the signified Blinky, to all German shepherds, or what? And where do you draw the line between things carrying the sign "dog" and those we call "wolf"? If I draw a picture of a terrier and call it a dog, how are they both symbols for Blinky as a "dog"?

Yeah, I think that's it... I could be wrong. Big Brother will likely put in his two cents if he knows anything about it. Which he almost inevitably does, because he's always watching.

Yeah, that sound's about right... I took a literature theory class, and we covered all that fun confusing languagy stuff.....

You've probably already seen it... but here's an essay I wrote in that class concerning the Mirror of Erised and Lacan's Mirror Stage... mllebienvenu.proboards13.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1046381193

[Lolua]

Ah, yes, a goodly essay. I must get my friend who loves Lacan to read it. You should submit it to MuggleNet or someplace as an editorial, might raise the bar on the stuff they accept. Some of it lately has been mighty disappointing, including one editorial describing why Flitwick is illogical as head of Ravenclaw House, when, of course, he is... *shakes head* Silly MuggleNet.

[Big Brother]

Mlle said:

PS: A sou to whomever can guess where I got my name....hehe (Lolua cant answer, she already knows..... she knows, man.... )

So, are you gonna reveal the secret, or just leave us to be MISERABLE in suspense?

;D

[Lolua]

*groans*

Even I'm miserable from the lameness of that joke, Martin. I'd suggest you do a bit les of it next time.

[Lorpius Prime]

Ah, lame jokes, you know what they are, but you just can't resist...

[Mlle Bienvenu]

LMBO! :-D Very funny ;D