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(This is an advanced lesson so we'll presume that you already know how to conjugate verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses.)
The preterite and imperfect are both simple (one-word) tenses indicating an action or state in the past, but they have quite different meanings and implications.
This can be quite confusing because in English we are able to use the preterite (or simple) past to speak about actions that:
1. were 'one time' occurrences completed at a certain point in the past - I bought a pair of shoes yesterday.
2. were part of a series of events - I read a book, ate a biscuit, and went for a walk.
3. went on for a certain amount of time - The movie lasted for two hours.
4. happened frequently - When I was little we always went to the beach. ... and to
5. describe things, people and settings - It was a dark night, the air was cold, and the man was tall.
In Spanish, however, you can only use the preterite tense for numbers 1-3 above. To describe a setting or situation or to describe actions that happened frequently (unless you specifically state the number of occurrences) you need the imperfect tense.
To help us understand how to use these two tenses it might help to view time as a pedestrian crossing complete with red and green 'stop' and 'go' lights.
The red 'stop' man is like the preterite tense. It stops a past action or state at a certain point in time or views it as completed.
For instance to say 'I ate an apple' you would use the preterite. It's as if the red stop man has frozen the complete action into a moment. The apple has been eaten.
Comí (pret) una manzana. I ate an apple.
The green 'go' man is like the imperfect tense. It allows the past action or state to keep going, to be in a state of progress.
So, to say 'I was eating an apple' to describe the action while it is actually in progress, you would use the imperfect tense. Here you can picture the action as it is happening, the apple is still being eaten at this moment.
Yo comía (imp) una manzana. I was eating an apple.
Now lets look at some uses of each tense. We'll start with the preterite, the red 'stop' man.
Use the preterite to present an action or state as completed, instantaneous or as being a 'one time' action:
Tip: If the sentence includes a time expression, even a long one, which limits the action to a period of time, (e.g. last year, yesterday, two thousand years ago, on Saturday night, at three o'clock etc.), often that is an indication that the action is being viewed as completed and suggests the preterite.
Bailé toda la noche. I danced all night.
Ayer comí una manzana. Yesterday I ate an apple.
De repente, el muchacho miró hacia arriba. Suddenly, the boy looked up.
Leí aquel libro una vez. I read that book once.
You may not even specifically mention the time, but you still use the preterite if you are referring to a completed event, action, or state.
Comí una manzana. I ate an apple.
(I ate it, it's all gone, the action is over!)
Ví a mi mamá. I saw my mum.
(I saw her through the crowd but then she was gone. That action is finished, firmly in the past.)
¿Quién rompió la jarra? Who broke the jug?
Hablé con mi profesora. I spoke with my teacher.
(Thank goodness that's over! I spoke to her and then got out of there as quickly as possible!)
Hice mi tarea. I did my homework.
(Yes I did! It's all done, end of story. I'm not doing it any more. I don't have to, it's done.)
Pasó una semana. A week went by.
(Yes, it was a whole week but it's completed. We've moved on.)
El chico estuvo enfermo. The boy was sick (but now he's not).
Use the Preterite for: Changes in Mental State or Feelings
This is often expressed with the Spanish reflexive form and it is like the English 'to get' or 'to become' + an adjective.
Me enfermé. I got sick.
Se enteró del error. He found out about the error.
Se puso enojado con el árbitro. He got mad with the referee.
Use the Preterite: To List Sequential Actions in the Past
Jugué un poco, fue a la casa de mi amiga y luego volví a casa.
I played a bit, went to my friend's house, and then returned home.
Use the Preterite: To focus on the beginning or end of an action or state in the past or to indicate a change in a past state
Se puso enfermo. He got sick.
Se enfrió la sopa. The soup got cold.
Now let's picture that green 'go' man – he's the man of action. Things are always moving when he's on the job.
He represents the imperfect tense which allows you to view past actions while they are still in progress. It's a bit like shifting a present tense action back into the past.
Use the Imperfect for: Actions in Progress in the Past
To express actions in progress in the past in English we often use 'was/were' + –ing. I was eating, they were sleeping, etc. In Spanish the imperfect tense is used to express this.
Adding words such as 'while' or 'as' really help you to see the action still in motion: As she opened (was opening) the door …. Mientras ella abría la puerta …..
Past actions which are still in progress, expressed by the imperfect tense, are often interrupted by another action that happens a bit more suddenly, and that second action would be expressed with the preterite tense. For this reason it's common to find both tenses in the same sentence:
Mientras ella abría la puerta el ratón entró corriendo.
While she opened (was opening) the door the mouse ran in.
Caminaban por el bosque cuando empezó a llover.
They were walking through the forest when it began to rain.
El niño se bañaba cuando llegaste.
The boy was having a bath/shower when you arrived.
Use the Imperfect for: Descriptions & Background Info
The imperfect is used to describe what a person, thing, or situation was like in the past. The imperfect gives information that 'sets the stage' for the principal action, such as; the time of the day, the date, the weather and the age of things.
Eran las once de la noche, había una tormenta terrible, y teníamos miedo.
It was eleven o clock at night, there was a terrible storm, and we were scared.
Mi tía era baja y severa, tenía 60 años, y trabajaba sin fin.
My aunty was short and stern. She was 60 and worked constantly.
Era un día muy bonito, no hacía calor y había una brisa muy fresca.
It was a very nice day. It wasn't hot and there was a very fresh breeze.
Use the Imperfect for: Simultaneous Actions in the Past
Mientras cocinaban, hablaban de los vacaciones.
While they were cooking they talked (or were talking) about the holidays.
Use the Imperfect for: Habitual Past Actions
When you want to refer to habitual past actions in situations that could be expressed with "used to" or "would" in English (e.g. I used to play squash; we would often meet for lunch) use the imperfect in Spanish.
Yo jugaba tenis cada fin de semana cuando era niño.
I used to play tennis every weekend when I was a child.
Siempre hacíamos excursiones en bicicleta.
We would always go for bike rides.
Cuando era niño, siempre ibamos a Nueva Zelanda.
When I was a child we always went to New Zealand.
But note that if you specify the exact number of times that the habitual action took place then you would use the preterite tense:
Cuando era niño, fuimos diez veces a Nueva Zelanda.
When I was a boy, we went to New Zealand 10 times.
Use the Imperfect for: Mental States of Mind & Physical States or Feelings in progress
Estaban muy enojados. They were very angry.
Yo no me sentía bien. I didn't feel well.
Yo me sentía mal. I felt sick.
Creíamos que estábamos perdidos. We thought that we were lost.
No sabíamos quién era. We didn't know who it was.
El chico estaba enfermo. The boy was sick.
Todos estábamos preocupados por el examen: Pablo sudaba, María repasaba su tarea y Alejandro no podía dejar de hablar.
We were all nervous about the exam: Paul was sweating, Maria was reviewing her homework, and Alexander couldn't stop talking.
If, however, you're referring to a mental or physical state or a feeling that changes at the moment that you're referring to, you would use the preterite.
This is the difference between:
Yo estaba enojada. I was angry (an ongoing state) and
Me puse enojada. I got angry (a change in state or feelings).
Could either work in some situations?
Sure, often you can use either the preterite or the imperfect to make perfect sense when describing something in the past. All you are doing is changing the perspective of how you are viewing it.
Eg. Using the imperfect: Hacía sol cuando llegamos. (imp) It was sunny when we arrived.
This tense shows that it didn't become sunny as you arrived - it already was, it was an ongoing condition and we're not worrying about when it began or ended.
Now using the preterite: Hizo sol la semana pasada. (pret) It was sunny last week.
Here, you're viewing the state or action as having been completed at some stage. It's as if you are staying where you are but looking back to see the week, neatly packaged up and firmly in the past. Sure, it was sunny then, but that's over now, things have changed.
Differences in Meaning:
Let's take a look at some more examples of when the choice between the preterite or the imperfect will convey a different meaning.
In some cases two distinct English verbs are be needed to express what can be conveyed by the use of the preterite and imperfect in Spanish. Remember that the preterite often refers to the beginning or ending of an action and the imperfect refers to an ongoing condition. For example:
Querer in the preterite means 'tried'; in the imperfect it means 'wanted'.
Quería ir a la fiesta. I wanted to go to the party.
Quise ir a la fiesta. I tried to go to the party.
No querer in the preterite means 'refused'; the imperfect means 'didn't want'.
No quería ir a la fiesta. I didn't want to go to the party.
No quise ir a la fiesta. I refused to go to the party.
Poder in the preterite means 'succeeded'; the imperfect means 'was able to'.
Pude hacerlo. I could (and did) do it.
Podría hacerlo. I could do it (I had the ability to).
No pude hacerlo. I couldn't (and failed to) do it.
No podría hacerlo. I couldn't do it (didn't have the ability).
Tener in the preterite means 'received'; the imperfect means 'used to have'.
Tuvo una carta ayer. I got a letter yesterday.
Tenía un perro. I used to have a dog.
and there's also a difference in meaning when using the phrase 'tener que' in either the preterite or the imperfect
Tuve que ir a la escuela. I had to go to school.
Tenía que ir a la escuela. I was supposed to go to school.
Conocer in the preterite means 'met'; the imperfect means 'knew'.
Conocí a Yudi en 2011. I met Judy in 2011.
Yo conocía a Yudi en 2011. I knew Judy in 2011.
Saber in the preterite means 'to find out'; the imperfect means 'knew'.
Maria supo las noticias y se enojó.
Maria found out about the news and she got mad.
Juan sabía las noticias y estaba enojado.
Juan knew about the news and was angry.
In other situations, using other verbs, the speaker may also use either the preterite or the imperfect but again the meaning will change slightly.
Estuve en la fiesta a las 9:00. I got to the party at 9 o' clock.
Estaba en la fiesta a las diez. I was at the party at ten o' clock (I got there at 9 and at 10 I was still there).
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Pasó un mes, a week went by. That is obviously a typo but it needs correcting or a complete beginner might
not realise that it is a typo and think mes means week and not month.
Quite right! Good catch thanx Ken, all proof reading gratefully accepted!
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Estuvo en la fiesta a las 9:00. I got to the party at 9 o' clock
estuve is ' i was' not estuvo
Ah thank you Hecho! Mil gracias por darte cuenta de mi errata
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In our preview post of Love & Hip Hop: The Reunion Show last week, we mentioned a few things to look forward to when the show finally aired. As we mentioned, for a 90-minute special, it took just about five hours to film, so that means there was an awful lot that didn't make it to air. Now that it's all over, enjoy this clip of some of the best moments from the night, as well as some of our observations of moments that didn't make the final cut, after the jump.
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- When Rich Dollaz and Somaya got into it, Somaya must have interrupted him at least five times to call him a vagina. At one point she started screaming at him in Spanish just before we walked off the stage.
- From the moment Mama Jones, Jim Jones, and Chrissy left the stage after their fight, it took at least a half hour to bring them back out, but as you can tell from Mama Jones' reaction as she stormed off later, a half hour wasn't nearly enough time to cool down.
- The ladies all enjoyed champagne between takes while they had their makeup touched up.
- When Jimmy was asked about the disagreements between Chrissy and his mother he replied "You can't win in my position so… you just smoke something." It was pretty clear from the smell in the studio that that's not just a clever motto.
- Olivia talked about how she was tired of being known as "Olivia from G-Unit," and that's why she agreed to do the show. Although she said now she's known as "Olivia from Love & Hip Hop."
- It may have looked, at least from her body language, that Emily was uncomfortable or upset, she sat with almost hunched over with her arms crossed the whole night — we can tell you that was most likely because she was freezing, because the temperature in the studio was 50 degrees, tops.
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139 weeks ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Oliver Stone's Unto... · 1 reply · +5 points
Helpful to achieving that broader understanding would be to make the acquaintance of Antony C. Sutton's three volume "Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development", particularly the second volume "1930-1945". It is there you will find that the essence of Lend-Lease was not the transfer of finished goods but instead of technology and prototypes. Furthermore, you will find that Lend-Lease was not exactly new, but an expansion of an existing policy of transferring technology and raw goods that long predated American diplomatic recognition of the Soviet state. The Yak-3 and Yak-9 you cite were in part legacies of those transfers.
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Point us to the free markets.
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Further, would that even work in today's military environment? In Vietnam, you were talking about grunts sent out into the field doing dirty work. Today, for the otherwise non-involved, the draft you speak of might just entail cooling your jets in an air-conditioned room playing video games for four years and I don't think that's enough to stir the kids into radicalism. The youngest draft-age kids today were eight, pressing close now to the reaches of seven, when 9/11 happened. America's war-footing is practically all they've ever known. While it's arguable the Vietnam draft-class grew up with hyperbolic tales of WW2 heroism that may have deadened their awareness of what war really consists of doing and having done to you and still radical reaction to the draft managed to emerge from the murk... I just don't count on it today, with the technological state of affairs being what it is.
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Out here in Washington state, surrounded on all sides by military bases and military or contractor personnel, forgive me for not picking up on this phantom non-interventionist fad gripping the GOP... it hasn't reached us here. As such, I'm having a difficult time believing any of it is true.
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'I'm not going to serve any time,' West Fargo landlord insists after court upholds assault ruling
But the 75-year-old landlord still insisted he won't spend time behind bars.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," he said in a phone interview. "But I know one thing – I'm not going to serve any time. And that's where we're at."
Asked to clarify, he said, "You read into it whatever you want."
The North Dakota Supreme Court upheld Vetter's aggravated assault conviction, which carried a mandatory minimum of two years in prison because a Cass County jury found his Hummer constituted a dangerous weapon.
Justices also found sufficient evidence to convict Vetter of running over 31-year-old Brian Hemphill in February 2011.
When reached at home Wednesday afternoon, Vetter said he hadn't heard about the opinion being issued and was "real surprised" by it.
"This'll kill me. The world's gonna come collapse on me. I am real frail the way it is. I don't know if I can handle it," he said.
Vetter collapsed in court on Jan. 9, 2012, when Judge Steven McCullough sentenced him to two years in prison followed by one year of probation. Vetter also was convicted of felony reckless endangerment.
McCullough allowed Vetter to remain free on $25,000 cash bail while his appeal was pending. Assistant State's Attorney Reid Brady objected, noting police had received reports that Vetter would commit suicide rather than be incarcerated.
Vetter said Wednesday that he previously received a letter through his appellate attorney, Dan Gast, from the judge giving him six weeks to report to prison from the date when an opinion was issued.
Gast and prosecutors could not be reached for comment.
In his appeal, Vetter argued that automobiles aren't included in the list of "dangerous weapons" in state law and shouldn't be considered as such.
Justices found the state's characterization of the law – which includes the catch-all phrase "but is not limited to" – comports closer to the plain language of the law and allows jurors to determine whether an object is a dangerous weapon based on how it's used.
"We cannot say a vehicle may never be considered a dangerous weapon" under the law, the opinion stated.
Vetter continued to profess his innocence Wednesday, saying he used the Hummer in self-defense and that the victim confronted him in the middle of the street in a "drug-infested area" in front of Vetter's rental duplex in the 600 block of Second Street West.
"He attacked my Hummer. Why am I being charged? He should be charged," Vetter said.
Brady noted at trial that Vetter owned six properties on the street and his family owned the Sunset Motel around the corner.
The Supreme Court found that the evidence supported the jury's finding that Vetter intentionally drove his Hummer forward while Hemphill backpedaled. Prosecutors said Hemphill was pushed back 86 feet by the Hummer before he fell and was run over. He survived, suffering a collapsed lung, broken ribs and abrasions.
Vetter said Wednesday that the charges were West Fargo's attempt "to get even with me" for a lawsuit he filed against the city and a developer over what he claimed was the illegal platting and special assessment of his land. The case was dismissed last February.
He also complained that his trial attorney didn't use the evidence they had.
"The whole damn thing was a kangaroo court," he said.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Looking Back in Remorse
Julian Barnes' very short new novel, currently nominated for the Man Booker Prize, is by no means perfect -- but it is very much authentic, and that counts for a lot with me. As its title suggests, it is written by a man approaching 70, like Barnes himself, looking back on his youth and re-evaluating. This may be a limitation for younger readers, but it is what one does...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Looking Back in Remorse,
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Julian Barnes' very short new novel, currently nominated for the Man Booker Prize, is by no means perfect -- but it is very much authentic, and that counts for a lot with me. As its title suggests, it is written by a man approaching 70, like Barnes himself, looking back on his youth and re-evaluating. This may be a limitation for younger readers, but it is what one does around that age, and Barnes handles it with impressive honesty. As an Englishman of very similar background myself, and only a year or two older, I found the book uncannily full of echoes from my own life, and no doubt those of many others: the group of friends in high-school who go their separate ways, the strange limbo of early sixties sex, a friend's suicide, the mystery of a never quite forgotten first girlfriend. I have not felt so much part of a novel since reading Ian McEwan's ON CHESIL BEACH; this may bias my review, but it also speaks to a depth of personal connection in the author's mind too. This makes the book, short though it is, a vast improvement on Barnes' recent set of short stories, PULSE, and almost as good as THE LEMON TABLE, the wonderful collection that preceded it.
Tony Webster is a man in his later sixties, divorced, the father of a grown daughter, and comfortably retired. Then a letter arrives that sends him back in memory to his high-school days and his friendship with Adrian Finn, a brilliant student clearly destined for great things. While Adrian is indeed achieving academic success at Cambridge, Tony pursues his studies at a provincial university, devoting as much time to a mostly-unconsummated relationship with Veronica Ford, his girlfriend from a rather more upscale family. Then, when Tony is visiting in America, Adrian dies. There seems no mystery about it at the time, but when Tony is forced to reconsider after a gap of forty-some years, his search becomes a moral calculus, weighing the value of that one life against what he's made of his own, settling for an undistinguished career and marriage, calling it comfort but really meaning cowardice.
The opening sections of the novel have strong similarities to Alan Bennett's play THE HISTORY BOYS, and the question of what constitutes history runs all through the book. The teenage Tony quotes Churchill's aphorism that "History is written by the victors," but his teacher counters that "it is also the self-delusion of the defeated." As Tony looks back on his life, different and sometimes surprising versions of the truth will emerge, and the question of winners and losers will by no means be so clear. This is the intellectual mystery of the book, and I found it fascinating. But you cannot write a novel on philosophical and literary reflections alone; there need also be events, shifts of direction, surprise revelations. Here I think Barnes falls short. The disclosures in the last section of the story, pulled like rabbits out of the hat, are in my opinion inadequately prepared in the first half. So while Barnes ties up the mysteries with the neatness of a PD James or Agatha Christie, he leaves Tony's personal calculus disappointingly open-ended.
I guess I'll just have to work out my own past in my own way!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Man Booker at last?,
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Don't be intimidated by its brevity. A little book with big ideas. Barnes, a runner-up for Man Booker prizes will finally get his just reward. Few books are worth reading more than once. This is one of them. History, false history, memory and false memory. A fictionalised memoire of Tony Webster reflecting on his adolescence with three then four friends, the latter, Adrian Finn, destined to greatness. Adrian's philosophical musing about a fellow student's suicide foreshadowing what is to come. "Life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it...if [one] decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is a moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision". Heady stuff this.
Part One is Tony's admittedly selective and possibly faulty memory of his school days and his faltering romance with Veronica. His marriage to Margaret and the birth of a daughter, subsequent divorce and the marriage of his daughter are summarily dismissed in a page or two. Part Two finds Tony in advanced middle age realising that he never accomplished much and just flowed along the river of life going wherever it carried him. A fragment of a diary left to him in Adrian's will starts him on his quest of trying to set things right by reconnecting with Veronica. In the last couple of pages we learn Tony got it all wrong, "you just don't get it" as Veronica had always told him. Barnes has left us with a bit of a cliff hanger or at least makes us reread sections of the book much as Tony has had to re-interpret his own life.
Book reviews in the Guardian and Globe and Mail do the book more justice. A true gem, Julian Barnes will be remembered.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "You don't get it, do you...!?",
Friederike Knabe "Books are funny little port... (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
Julian Barnes' new novel, The Sense of an Ending *), is an intimate reflection on memory and its unreliability over time. Writing in the voice of sixty-something-year-old Anthony Webster, a "peaceable man", Barnes explores convincingly how the brain grows selective and untrustworthy with age, reinterpreting how "what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed... Thus, the reader is put on notice from the beginning that what we read may not be quite what it will turn out to be.
Isolated memory snippets open the novel: a "shiny inner wrist; a river rushing nonsensically upstream, its wave and wash lit by half a dozen chasing torchbeams; another river...; bathwater long gone cold behind a locked door". Initially we don't really know where we are and who is talking. The narrator wonders about "everyday" time - "it holds us and moulds us"; pain or pleasure can give us the illusion of its stretching or contracting... Something has triggered his musings that take his mind back to "a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty."
Those incidents take us without much transition to his adolescent years, when growing up is as daunting as it is exciting: close friendships are an essential component, so are school and teachers, and the mounting physical urge for intimate encounters... Barnes is perceptive and astute in his depiction of Tony and his trio of close friends. Adrian, "a tall, shy boy who initially kept his eyes down and his mind to himself..." stands out in terms of intelligence and his admiration for Camus's existentialist philosophy. The others, while joining in the wide-ranging debates in class - on history, on "Birth, Copulation, and Death", on poetry - are more concerned with "getting" a girl or pretending to... These are the early nineteen-sixties and the sexual liberation may be spreading elsewhere but not here.
Then, school is out and life moves on... fast forward. An early tragedy, rather than bringing them together, pushes the friends further apart. So, what, forty odd years later, brought all these memories back to the fore in Tony's mind? Why does his first girlfriend's "You don't get it, do you...!?" comes back to haunt him after all these years? Didn't she not call him a "coward" then, but why? Along the way, we receive few hints as to the connections between past and present. Barnes holds his cards close to his chest, just giving us enough context to want to keep reading... It is only when reaching the novel's concluding pages that we are confronted with scenarios that challenge our own recollections of what might have happened earlier on. Did we get caught out in the memory game by missing sublte clues, by interpreting behaviour and events to suit our image of the hero? Could our perception of Anthony Webster's character potentially "stand up in court"? For me personally, the ending of the book made my reading of the book as a whole much more meaningful. The first part, set in the school and boys' environment, while well captured and interesting in a detached sort of way, did not overly engage my female mind. Yet, after reaching the last pages I looked back at the earlier depictions of people and events and felt them bringing out additional layers and depths to the story. In the end, did Barnes leave enough clues for his readers to solve all of the puzzles? It is up to the reader to decide. [Friederike Knabe]
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful,
Paolo (Toronto) - See all my reviews
This is a novel of youthful friendship and relationships, budding pretensions, teenage angst and middle-aged memories, reverie and regret. The book is told by Tony Webster, a middle-of -the-road type character who can best describe himself as peaceable. The first half of the book centres on the schoolboy friendship with Adrian Finn, a more intelligent, Camus-reading fellow pupil at their sixth form in central London. After the two separate for university, Adrian going to Cambridge and Tony to Bristol, we follow Tony's relationship with Veronica a woman who remains an enigma to Tony and whose feelings for him seem to swing between care and contempt. His relationship with Veronica simpered out after a year and she then goes out with Adrian. The chapter ends with the news of Adrian's death by his own hands.
The second half of the novel is set after Tony has retired, his marriage with Margaret lasting much longer but ending in amicable divorce. He is suddenly forced to reassess his past when a letter from a solicitor turns up informing him that he has been bequeathed Adrian's diary by Veronica's mother but also the news that Veronica, whom Tony had edited out of his past in discussions with Margaret, is currently in possession of the diary and looks unlikely to pass it on.
At the heart of the novel is an almost Proustian analysis of memory and history and Tony is much more at home with the historical certainties of the Greeks and Romans than of the mess of uncertainty of the near past. The focus of his reminiscence is a disastrous trip he took with Veronica to spend a weekend in Kent at her home with her family and every nuance and uttering is re-evaluated with each new exchange with Veronica as he tries to prove to her for once and for all that he finally gets it.
This is a short volume coming in at 150 pages but every word packs its power. Only on looking back do you begin to realise the complexity of the story as you begin to wonder whether your memory of earlier events or his is the one which is correct. I haven't had a chance to reread the book but I'm sure it's one that would get even better on a second visit. It more than justifies its inclusion in the Booker long list and unless Alan Hollinghurst has pulled out a gem with 'the Stranger's Child' I believe this one could go all the way and bag the prize.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great Writing! Lack of logic or closure.,
Gregory Nixon (Prince George, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
I am not surprised that this was nominated for the Booker prize, but I am surprised it won. The writing is so deceptively simple, yet elegant, that one travels in time along with the author with the greatest of ease, and it is a stirring pleasure to do so. However the literature's "postmodern" ambiguity - mysteries begun but never completely explained - that made me feel mainly frustration at closing the book when I was done. Some of the actions of the characters simply do not make sense and a rationale is never provided. Their words and actions are often jarring or bizarre and they end up seeming slightly crazy, which I don't believe was the author's intent. Some will love this book for they have come to believe that threads of sub-plots left hanging are best left to our own imagination. I would rather have some closure, or at least some hints why certain people would act in the manner in they do, which, on the surface, appears without rhyme or reason.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Barnes is an outstanding wordsmith,
Vlad Thelad (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
It is an absolute pleasure to read Julian Barnes' latest novel. He is such an outstanding wordsmith, and here he amply proves it. There is a reason behind each word and sentence in this carefully crafted short novel, with all the pieces fitting in nicely as we glide with ease through the story. Yet, The Sense of an Ending is deceptively simple; there is much depth and maturity just one scratch below the surface. Highly recommendable!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very powerful book,
ronbc (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sense of an Ending (Kindle Edition)
Short yet thorough, spare yet eloquent, The Sense of an Ending explores the relationship between time and memory, the gap — sometimes the gulf — between the persons we think that we are and the persons we have been in reality. How we distort the past to protect the present. How we protect the past to produce the present.
There are things about The Sense of an Ending that could be criticized. For instance, some of the turns of the story are arbitrary, even melodramatic. But the slow and inevitable stripping away of the illusions of the protagonist, Tony Webster, about his life — about himself — proceeds with an irresistible force.
In the end, we are compelled to confront the question: How much of ourselves is merely revisionist history, self-protecting and self-deluding fabrication? It's an uneasy question at best. For the protagonist, as for the unlucky among us, the answer is both definitive and devastating. He is not the good man he thought he was. He has not lived the satisfying life that he believes that he has lived. He knows that he is not an achiever, but can he survive the realization that he is not even averagely admirable. Could we?
From the beginning, Barnes takes us into the inner world of perception and memory.
Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing—until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.
The story begins with its characters in the tremulous transition from adolescents to young men. Barnes is both incisive and sympathetic when he describes the three friends: "We luxuriated in the doldrums of adolescence, imagining our routine discontent to be an original response to the human condition."
The worst fate they could imagine was to be ordinary, to be inconsequential: "This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents—were they the stuff of Literature?"
The novel's narrative follows the now-retired Tony's pursuit of the truth of the events of his youth. It's a quest that he undertakes with determination, even desperation, for he suspects that he and the things that he remembers as his life were not entirely — not at all? — as he recalls them: "Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time."
There is no good reason to summarize the events and revelations that make up Tony's exploration of his past. For one thing, they are not in themselves the novel's subject; for another, the tension with which the truth is teased out of the past is too delicate for "spoilers."
In the end, Tony has lost his reassuring versions of his memories. He has also lost the forgiving sense of himself that has supported his illusions. Barnes does not equip us to see this as a good thing or a bad thing. We are left with the tempting and terrifying question: "Would I really want to strip myself down to the raw wood?"
Tony Webster's final evaluation of himself is clear-eyed and even-tempered. There is no strong emotion left, no energy for passionate recrimination or anguished introspection.
The unique details of his ordinary life speak for themselves. Knowing them now as they were, his job is done.
One reviewer wrote of The Sense of an Ending: "At 163 pages, The Sense of an Ending is the longest book I have ever read." That's just the kind of thing that a skilled reviewer would write, but in this case I have considerable sympathy for her sentiment.
After all, The Sense of an Ending is a lifetime long.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Astonishingly simple, Barnes' pulls the reader from start to finish with delicate hints of unrest and mystery,
This review is from: The Sense of an Ending (Paperback)
Julian Barnes' 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel " The Sense of an Ending" follows the life of Tony, an awkward and desperately intelligent soul. Bildungsroman – I'm not entirely certain how to use it in a sentence, but this is the term that I believe is used for this genre of novel.
Although nothing remarkable really happens for the majority of the story, I still found myself incapable of turning away from the page. Told in first person, I can only assume that this had something, or perhaps everything, to do with the voice of its' protagonist. The novel begins with Tony, to the best of his ability, recounting his journey from youth into adulthood, with a strong emphasis on a genius whom he called his friend, and a girl (I feel that I needn't say more than that). Insecure, uncertain, and yet sure that his paradigm is correct and his memories sound, Tony frequently explains to the reader that he has a specific story he wishes to tell. Omitting descriptions of acquaintances and friends that don't immediately serve his narrative, the question 'what story is he talking about?' rested very near the outskirts of my periphery. That question is, in fact, not really answered until nearly three quarters of the way through the novel, at which point we catch up with Tony in the present day, and the story takes yet another turn.
Simple and yet astonishing, Barnes cleverly pulls the reader from start to finish with delicate hints of unrest and mystery.
As I read, I couldn't help but compare Tony Webster's relationship with Victoria (the girl) with that of Philip Carey and Mildred – the relationship depicted in Somerset Maugham's novel "Of Human Bondage." I saw the similarities between these two relationships even before finishing the book and flipping to the back page to see that one of Julian Barnes' honours included the 'Somerset Maugham Award.' Perhaps I picked up on something after all.
Love, infuriating love, in all its irrationality and hopelessness had me tempted to throw Maugham's book out the window. My reaction wasn't quite so strong with Barnes' novel, but perhaps this is because the nature of the narration led me to consistently question the validity of Tony's retelling of events.
The novel certainly provoked the problem of the unreliable narrator. I often wondered if I could entirely trust Tony, and yet I knew I didn't have a choice.
In this way the "The Sense of an Ending" shares some similarities with the novel "The Good Soldier" by Ford Maddox Ford." A novel where the protagonist is consistently caught out in a lie, often back-tracking, and even more often apologizing for forgotten information that might have swayed the readers opinion a different way had it been shared when it had been relevant.
Perhaps it is the combination of all of these factors which kept me riveted to the page and, upon completing the work, inspired the desire to read it again.
The big question asked by Barnes in the context of this novel is based on the validity of history. How is history created, and can we trust it? In a world where every soul tells a different story of the same event, how can we ever be comfortable in our own reality? How can we be sure of anything? Is it better to ask these questions, or is it better to live in a comfortable state of ignorance. I recently read a post on Facebook which seems to compliment these questions perfectly: "I wish I was just dumb enough to not realize that I was dumb."
I would like to share an excerpt from the novel that I feel fully encapsulates what it's about – don't worry, this isn't a spoiler.
"But time… how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time… give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical"
As I read through this review, and look over the above passage, I feel certain that what makes this book so memorable is the bravery of its' author in sharing such an unapologetic and sometimes unlikable voice with his audience. With this honesty, he turns the microscope back on us, because behind our pleasant smiles and polite nods, he knows that we'll each continue to re-write our own histories in a light that paints us only as well-meaning and rational… even if we aren't.
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4.0 out of 5 stars `How often do we tell our own life story?',
Jennifer Cameron-Smith "Expect the Unexpected" (ACT, Australia) - See all my reviews
Tony Webster, a cautious and careful man, aged in his 60s receives an unexpected bequest from a woman he'd met, the mother of his girlfriend Veronica Ford, 40 years earlier. She has bequeathed him �500, and her diary, and he has no idea why. This legacy unsettles Tony and he gets in touch with Veronica to try to obtain the diary (which Veronica has) and to get some answers to long unresolved questions.
In seeking answers to these questions, Tony needs to revisit a past of which his own memories are not completely reliable. For, in living his life so carefully and noncommittally, Tony has been a spectator rather than a participant. This is not true of his friend Adrian Finn, or of Veronica Ford or her mother. But what does this mean, and does it matter? When Tony and Veronica broke up, Adrian and Veronica became a couple. This ended in tragedy, but it is a larger tragedy than Tony realised at the time.
`History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.'
Comparing Tony's self-absorbed account of the past with what apparently happened makes it clear that Tony's life experience is comparatively limited, stilted and free of risk, and largely bereft of joy. For me, this novel is more about questions of life than it is about fictional characters.
`What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully?'
While I enjoyed reading this novel, I found it unsettling: how many of us, of a similar age to Tony would also have some disconnect between memory and fact? Finding out more about the bequest may answer some questions for Tony, but it raises others. And a number of thoughts related to those questions have remained with me in the 3 months that have elapsed since I read this book.
`It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars A Short Novela Packed With A Secret That Will Shock You,
Jay Gilbertson (Prairie Farm, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sense of an Ending (Paperback)
The Sense Of An Ending
By Julian Barnes
This intriguing novel begins by painting a curious picture for the reader, setting the stage for all that had fallen away from narrator Tony's past. You quickly learn that his life was rather messy, to say the least. This is a type of "looking glass novella," where the main character reaches into his past, in an attempt to make sense of how things got so out of hand. Memories can shape who you become as you move forward in life, but they can also become a rock and pull you under.
"I remember, in one particular order: a shiny inner wrist, a steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying pan is laughingly tossed into it. A river rushing nonsensically upstream, its wave and wash lit by half a dozen chasing torchbeams...bath water long gone cold behind a locked door."
Author Julian Barnes paints a fascinating, as well as tragic, account of one man's look backward in time as he tries to unlock a strange secret that isn't revealed until the very last sentence is read. Tony, when the story opens, is in his sixties now. Divorced and very much alone, he receives a diary from his college day's ex-girlfriend's mother and suddenly his past comes alive in ways he'd never imagined. In twists and turns he'd rather not know. And of course, there are missing pages.
The diary becomes a clever metaphor as author Barnes unleashes secrets and hurt and pain that eventually lead to a truth so surprising, I had to re-read the ending several times to absorb the subtle, but lethal, revelation. Truth is like that, hard to ignore, yet equally as hard to see. No, I'm not telling...But long after I stepped away from this powerful little gem, I started to wonder--could this really have happened?
The diary, which eventually evolves into becoming the main character, is penned by the heroically, over-the-top, nearly unbelievable alter-ego of this tale--Adrian. It's rich in detail and filled with mathematically complicated puzzles Tony (as well as the reader) is left to unravel. Though the author uses few words to examine this interplay of memory versus diary excerpts, it shines with a rare literary brilliance using nuance and suggestion. This adds to the murky quest Tony is on to discover how life got so off the proverbial track.
One rather irritating writing technique author Barne's pushes to the limit is how he would occasionally step literally onto the page and give comment about his characters behavior. As if it was somehow not his fault. Several times I honestly wanted to smack him and suggest a re-write!
"Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story."
See what I mean?
This work would make a great book club read since it has so many curious aspects to consider. What to do with a troubled past, should secrets stay unspoken and do you really want authors to suddenly pop onto the stage and criticize their own creations? Imagine if suddenly Betty Crocker popped into your kitchen and ridiculed your sugar cookies!
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So, I have found pictures of a few laundry rooms that I plan to use as inspiration. My L.R. is much smaller than the ones pictured below, but hopefully I can incorporate their ideas and make some big changes.
I love the shelving in this laundry room. Its clean, functional, and gives you lots of room to work with.
I plan on incorporating some form of rolling shelves in my Laundry Room. I like the looks of this one.


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Pigs in blanket canapés work brilliantly as a Christmas dinner appetiser
Method1. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Cut 6 rashers of the bacon in half lengthways and wrap one slice around a chipolata securing with a long bamboo stick. Place on a lightly oiled baking sheet.
2. Divide half the cream cheese between the prunes and roll up to enclose filling. Cut the remaining bacon in half (lengthways and widthways) and use 2 strips to wrap round each prune. Secure with a cocktail stick and place on a baking sheet.
3. Bake the chipolatas for 10 minutes. Then add the prunes and bake for a further 10 minutes, until bacon is crisp and golden. Remove from the oven and allow to stand for 10 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, mix together the remaining cream cheese, soured cream, lemon juice and parsley. Season well. Spoon into a serving bowl and garnish with the thyme.
5. Arrange chipolatas and prunes on a warm serving plate and serve with the dip.
- 15 slices streaky bacon
- 12 chipolata sausages
- 18 prunes, cut open and opened out
- 150 g fig and nut cream cheese, such as Boursin
- 100 ml soured cream
- ½ lemons, juice only
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I spent a large portion of last weekend playing with Lego with my 7-year-old nephew. We built spaceships and flew them around my brother and sister-in-law's living room. It was tremendous fun and brought me back to my days of playing Lego with my older brother, with whom I also had tremendous fun building spaceships. I only found out later that he was just trying to rebuild a spaceship for which I had lost the instructions. Whoops.
What I'm trying to say is that Lego is awesome and it's a great way to bring families together to work towards a common, fun purpose. Such is the case for Curtis Cunningham and his son Isaac. The two are also Canucks fans and 8-year-old Isaac combined his love of Lego and the Canucks in his latest creation: Canuckbot.Continue Reading —›
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Unfortunately, many Canuck fans (some of whom were still feeling a bit rioty), didn't find it amusing at all. Rather, they found it damnable, and took to bombarding Duco's Twitter account with all manner of vitriol and harassment. The sudden wave of venom bothered Duco so much that, eventually, he felt there was no recourse but to shut down the account altogether.
Thankfully, our guilt has finally been alleviated, as Mike Duco relaunched his Twitter account this morning.Continue Reading —›
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Opening night at Rogers Arena was an awkwardly bitter sweet affair. The Canucks' impressive trophy haul from last season was on display as John Ashbridge recapped the stellar 2010-11 season, while quietly avoiding the topic of the biggest trophy absent from centre ice. Then the awkward subject of the post-game-seven riots came up, leading into the inspirational honouring of the heroes who helped the city both during and after the riots. Henrik gave the ceremonial game puck to the incredibly shy little girl who had helped her dad clean up the streets the next day, which was adorable.
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Dave Curtis takes a look at the future of Auburn QB Cam Newton, which could include continued NCAA prodding and a possible jump to the NFL.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Auburn Coach Gene Chizik insisted again Tuesday morning that he has no concerns about an NCAA investigation into star quarterback Cam Newton's recruitment some day taking away the program's national title.
"I know exactly who Cam is," Chizik said at a press conference. "Everything I know is very positive. He's a great young man. We did everything right."
NCAA enforcement staffers continue to look into reports about Newton's father, Cecil, trying to get $180,000 from Mississippi State in exchange for Cam Newton becoming a Bulldog. Cam Newton ended up at Auburn, where he led the Tigers to a 14-0 season capped by Monday night's 22-19 victory in the BCS National Championship Game.Read More
What's next in Cam Newton's future? Dave Curtis says continuing prodding by the NCAA and a choice to make about whether he enters the NFL draft.
Auburn's prolific offense did enough for the Tigers to win the national title. The real story, Dave Curtis says, was the play of defensive tackle Nick Fairley.
Auburn's win in the BCS title game continued a clear trend, Dave Curtis says. It's the fifth consecutive year in which a team from the SEC has won it all.
A slow start ended in a frenzy, making for a memorable national title game. Auburn claimed the crown when Wes Byrum made a field goal with no time remaining.
Auburn trailed early in the BCS title game, but the Tigers have recovered. After the defenses dominated early, Auburn took control for a 16-11 lead.
Don't let the calm of the Ducks and Tigers on Monday fool you. It's all on the line tonight, with the national title game kicking off at 8:30 ET.
Oregon's team speed, with Darron Thomas at the helm, is hard to replicate. That's just one reason Dave Curtis says the Ducks could prevail in the desert.
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The national championship is on the line for Auburn and Oregon. But Dave Curtis says the implications for Monday's 8:30 p.m. ET title game run beyond a trophy.
Several opponents have called Auburn's Nick Fairley a dirty player. Fairley disagrees, saying instead that his motor is always running, Dave Curtis says.
Cliff Harris gets plenty of opportunities to makes plays on the football field. But what he's perhaps most known for, Dave Curtis says, is his ability to yap.
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