welcome to the world of pure greed Gabby,, money without purpose.. just for the sake of money with out care for the condition of the rest of the world.. it has got to end..
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:22 AM, gabbydott <gabbydott@gmail.com> wrote:
Hm, I would say wealth means that I have got the power to control rather than being controlled by you. Then sitting behind the buttons you start forgetting what got you there and you start demanding trust by means of your own authority. Purpose with outpurpose, that is.--2013/5/27 Allan H <allanh1946@gmail.com>wealth with out purpose... I believe that is how it was put.. we have been discussing that .. governments are starting to tackle Tax Evasion.. not much of a stat but a start.. and a strong voice has emerged directly condemning wealth with out purpose,--On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:57 AM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
By "real novel" I mean something that might move away from heroic
tragedy and star-crossed lovers. Imagine characters other than the
standards in the world revealed in this Oxfam report -
http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cost-of-inequality-oxfam-mb180113.pdf
According to this report the wealth of only the top 100 billionaires
would solve world poverty 4 times over. I haven't been able to find
the methodology used, but the indication is that just sequestrating
the wealth of 25 people would get rid of poverty in its worst forms.
Where is any literature that makes such points?
On 26 May, 18:00, 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.
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> On May 25, 10:42 pm, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > "Hints of Future Novels in Letters to Fitzgerald" by Dinitia Smith-
> > Spetember 8,2003 <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/books/
> > 08FITZ.html>
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> > "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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> > Hope they link!
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