Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to andin,
Andin – they’ve got to sell the film – it would be part of the contract for the leads to go out and talk about it, even if, privately, they didn’t much go for it.
While I was watching, I was thinking – especially towards the end – that this would be the point that 85% of your average audience would start slow-clapping, while the remaining 15% would be wondering where the film was going.
I don’t think it will stay with me very long.
And (added after reading your link), this ties in rather with Celia Wade-Brown's idea that just because someone has skills, doesn't mean they can't improve by learning new ones.
Does anything else think that PAS threads are cross-pollinating?
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I've just got to post this - tonight we decided to watch a film which had been recorded some time ago. Didn't know anything about it at all, but we usually video things which look interesting, so off we went. It was about death, meditation, other dimensions......The Fountain.
While we were watching, my sister asked me if I thought one of the scenes was a dream sequence. I said I didn't know. "What is the answer?" she said.
Yes, yes, I know - pure coincidence :)
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Islander,
Oh, yes, thanks - that is spot on! So, just looking on Google, she doesn't come up as a philosopher....perhaps she was doing what so many of us do, trying to figure out some things for herself in amongst the work she did for a living?
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to andin,
And I have had some domestic problems, I don’t mean to use that as an excuse.
Oh - bugger! I've just used that as an excuse for not remembering the second referendum on MMP.
And thanks for your words. I appreciate it very much.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yay! but in this particular instance, the assistant was definitely an amanuensis. Kind of points towards the 20s or 30s.
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Up Front: Giving Me Grief, in reply to BenWilson,
After my mother died, in one of the days before we finally left to go to our individual homes, my sister-in-law came and said "I dreamed of your mother last night!" She was elated. She'd seen Mum and my grandma, sitting in Kensington, having afternoon tea. (Mum was planning a trip away when she died.)
I remember looking at her in total dismay, feeling so jealous.
(I didn't dream of Mum for years, and then, when I did, they were very matter-of-fact, mundane conversations. But in my inner ear, I can still remember her voice, although it's many, many years since she died.)
Dad's cousin came up to me after his funeral (both parents died within two years of each other) and said she'd seen him standing behind his coffin. At that stage, all I could do was look blankly at her. I think I was a bit crazy when he died, as there'd been anger and recriminations surrounding it all.
But I see Dad all the time. He drives past in various cars. He passes me in the street. It's just something that happens. I don't worry about it.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to BenWilson,
I've been trying to remember the name of a woman philosopher I read about many years ago. (Can't remember, and the list of female philosophers I found didn't ring any bells.) She had an amanuensis, and the contract was that whichever one died first, she would give the other a defining answer to life, the universe and everything (with thanks to Douglas Adams).
Came the deathbed scene - the amanuensis whispered "What is the answer?" The dying response was "What was the question?"
Around about then, I saw that for me anyway, the answer is "the whole of my life".
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Mm. Coincidences and tram lines around the world!
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Up Front: Giving Me Grief, in reply to Jolisa,
Love that story, just love it! Whatever it was, it happened, it was real. One of the mysteries....Gorgeous!
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Islander,
‘babyboomers’ were a late invention as a ‘generation.’
Mum used to talk about the "post-war baby boom" (I was born just after the war) so the term might be a late invention, but the idea of a bulge in births all about the same time being given a term isn't so far-fetched. "Baby boom" is over 60 years old now.