Posts by Andrew Paul Wood
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It made BBC World last night (insomnia you see). I think it's a little early to be passing sweeping judgments on who is right and who is wrong at this stage. From Auckland and Wellington I think it is very easy to dismiss out of hand some of the very intense feelings in the rural and provincial areas. Remember the Coelisi virus - that's serious organisation.
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I'd rather not be able to buy heroine at the supermarket than you very much
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Whisky - the French can't do that right either.
Smooth as Anton Oliver's French (ironic, no?)Quel Horreur!
Re the Haka: literal translations are always underwhelming, it's up to the translator to accurately reinterpret the spirit as well as the sense.
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As much as any skewering of Key's ridiculous "me too" behaviour is, and I hate to be a pedant, but the Sydney Opera House is actually too small to host an opera by today's standards.
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Tell me you haven't ever experienced a powerful urge to kill in an online game? :-0 Or cried when you lost your last life just before reaching the high score in an arcade? ;-)
Nothing like the sensation of the transcendant sublime I experience reading Goethe or the first time I saw Tintoretto's Feast of Cleopatra. You, I suspect, are confusing kitsch with catharsis.
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Clearly two alien cultures unable to communicate - but I'm taking my ball and going home before the programmers all gang up on me.
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Wasn't Virginia Wolf's Schtick that you needed to have an independant financial existence to write and create - hence "A Room of One's Own"
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Quantity is not quality
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LOTR was a personal diversion, an experiment to see if it was possible to construct a new narrative in the style of the Old English epics - hence its rather stilted prose and plodding plotting. It's a good yarn, but it's not art and was never intended to be such (art must first be concieved of as art).
If you are the only one weeping, and you wrote it, but - and no offense intended - that's narcissistic solipsism, not art. Art can make a room full of non-artists feel the same powerful emotions. As Rilke said in his sonnet "Archaic Torso of Apollo" and I'mm loosely translating from the German here: "you must/will change your life."
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No one had ever thought to do it on such a scale before though.
Hello?! Homer! Vergil and Ovid!
Why are elves tall chaps with bows instead of little pixie like creatures? Tolkien. Why are goblins snivelly nasty green things that live underground, rather than things that live under toadstools at the bottom of my garden? Tolkien. Trolls turning to stone in sunlight? He borrowed that one.
I suggest you read your Norse myths. He stole it all.