Mind's Eye Re: Gatsby

Am not much of a movie fan- seemed like a vicarious experience. Real
life was replete.//My reading follows a more traditional course of the
classics though some were modern in the sense they were graphic. Read
a lot of Kierkegaard in a humanites course and honestly, he put me to
sleep but so did Henry James and a linguistics course. O well...

My garage roof has turned into a mini-disaster.Family plans have run
amok. etc.

On May 30, 3:38 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
>
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