Back to the movies rigs - I think most are now too dumb to bear. This
is a world that turns computers into toys. The gated sheep is about
right. I can't work out why they don't do much for 'our market
segment'. Nearly all the good films I've seen in the last twenty
years have been French, German or Spanish (Mario et Jeanette; Mephisto/
Colonel Riedel, Belle Epoch/The Pope's Toilet/Pierot Le Bon Bon) and I
even like my cops French (Spiral), Danish (The Killing), my humour
Norwegian (You The Living). My great literature comes from Darwin,
Einstein, Maxwell (not the dog) and any biologist other than Dawkins.
Cervantes and Tom Sharpe were sharp. Kierkegaard is best read as a
teller of shaggy dog stories, Lyotard as telling ripping yarns. There
is no television channel for poor little me! We have a place called
the Corner House (run by one of my ex-students) that shows arty films.
Max takes me to woodland and a river on his walks. Fish, frog spawn,
wet-land development, brilliant trees, other dogs and mostly lovely
owners, young lovers, kids being kids, kingfishers, a heron, ducks -
Max seems to admire the ducks. I would like to write a translation of
his nose language. He's basically a moon dog - stare at his face long
enough and he looks like the moon.
I read the other day that 72% of kids arriving at Harvard are virgins
and 22% still are when they graduate. Maybe crass baa baa culture
doesn't get to all?
On 29 May, 13:28, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FSF has a poetic romantic strain but is weak in some areas. We may
> love his life as much as what he wrote. He did zero in on a certain
> class- the American self-made man and fakery of it all despite the
> s)uccess. Other authors were also dealing with this in different ways-
> less glamourous ways. Yes- think I read about Faludi a few years
> back.// The young women I know- mid-30's- are exhausted trying to
> "have it all".//I think you have a formula. You're better than that, I
> think.
>
> On May 28, 7:19 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Beyond the Gatsby path to great riches lie vapid women rigs? I'm not
> > much impressed by Gabbeconomics on freedom, though sure she's right.
> > Most of our effort goes in keeping wolves from doors. I'm not sure
> > we have worked out emancipation, suspecting it may be from the need to
> > work to have the income not to have the choices of others forced on
> > us. Women have made some moves against this, but I go with Susan
> > Faludi in thinking we are being stiffed.
>
> > Where lies prose in this rigs - and its seduction? Winter cracked
> > spring broke late May. The cold heart of Cornelius Stitt did not
> > warm, even as his dog frolicked. Concerns of heavy world spiked
> > desire of retirement behind the attraction of a pub door and adventure
> > in the undiscovered continent. In short, Harry Fleck had turned up
> > like a bad penny with a scheme against his quiet life plan. You know
> > the kind of thing better than me.
>
> > On 28 May, 13:08, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > There are infinite possibilities- it's the imagination that's limited-
> > > and the expectations of the market and audience. Also, it is a matter
> > > of making money so good writers will pander and ruin themselves in the
> > > process.
>
> > > On May 26, 12:00 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I liked some of his short stories. There's a 1949 Gatsby film with
> > > > Shelly Winters (before her bloat) being credibly vapid. I can barely
> > > > read Umberto Eco, yet like the films of his books. Surely it must
> > > > have dawned by now rigs that most of these "creatives" just pander to
> > > > ignorant reality? It just gets worse in film. Give Hollywood a
> > > > chance to have star-crossed lovers and that's what you'll get. When
> > > > we curl up with a book we can let our own minds wander. This is where
> > > > much of the creativity lies. I'd rather they screwed up Gatsby
> > > > (again) than churned out today's formulaic nonsense (Barely worth the
> > > > $10 fee to Pirate Bay).
> > > > I've tried to write a "real novel" and just can't manage he process at
> > > > all. It might be possible as a screenplay that could be expanded by
> > > > people watching - I think in this sense writing may be at an end.
> > > > Actors and what they do in front of cameras or on stage can be
> > > > brilliant - yet they are more likely much of a muchness, constraining
> > > > the story as much as television news. We are short of an adventurous
> > > > medium.
>
> > > > On May 25, 10:42 pm, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I wish Hollywood would leave good novels alone. Have no intention of
> > > > > seeing this latest Gatsby and the other Fitzgerald books/stories set
> > > > > to film were terrible. He is one of my favorite and influential
> > > > > writers.//Here are a couple of links to articles that appeared in the
> > > > > NYTimes a few years ago as I suspected all along. Plots have their
> > > > > seeds in reality.
>
> > > > > "Hints of Future Novels in Letters to Fitzgerald" by Dinitia Smith-
> > > > > Spetember 8,2003 <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/books/
> > > > > 08FITZ.html>
>
> > > > > "Mementos of a Real Romance That Fed Fitzgerald's Fiction" by Janet
> > > > > Maslin January 24, 2005 <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/books/
> > > > > 24masl.html>
>
> > > > > Hope they link!- Hide quoted text -
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