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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 5:19:37 GMT -5
It would make a good story would it not were every one to live two hundred years instead of eighty odd. A story about real historical characters that is. Queen Victoria still on the throne to-day; Wilde still writing; Einstein still theorizing; Turing still inventing; Elgar just putting out his twentieth symphony; Brahms his fortieth. . . .
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 6:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 7:46:42 GMT -5
Have not; but will now.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 9:16:51 GMT -5
Well I have now watched the first half of Orlando the film, and it is certainly mystifying! The principal youth is acted by what is obviously a woman, which is a disappointment. The fact is so obvious that it is obviously intended to be obvious. And so when, half-way through, he discovers that he has become a woman, it comes as no surprise, because "he" has been one all along. (It is at this point that I left off watching for to-day.) And the impecunious poet, intended to be comical we must suppose, is not really all that funny. (If comedy was required they could have brought in Hyacinth Bucket or Kenneth Williams.) Quentin Crisp is memorable as the old queen, but makes only a brief appearance. All the dressing up in elaborate costumes is a sign that the undertaking is mostly ladies' business. I will report further after having watched the rest. Probably I will gain a better understanding of what it is all about (or supposed to be about) from reading the book.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2013 9:32:33 GMT -5
Unfortunately the film ends in an orgy of "popular music" ("pop-ululatory music" I prefer to call it), so there is not really anything further I can say about it. I still suspect that the book would be more rewarding - is it kleines c?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2013 10:15:44 GMT -5
Good afternoon, Sydney Grew. If I may address your question directly: " ... I still suspect that the book would be more rewarding - is it kleines c?" Well, as you know, I am not immune to the more accessible charms of pop(ular) music, so this is, in and of itself, an attraction to kleines c in the film adaptation of Orlando. I understand, however, that we have very different musical tastes, although there are, possibly, some genres in which our tastes are likely to coincide. So whilst kleines c is at ease clubbing to the latest pop music, I suspect that it would be in far earlier music that we would share a mutual enthusiasm, Sydney Grew. As for the book (Orlando: A Biography), who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Wikipedia - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Post by Gerard on Jun 3, 2013 21:48:45 GMT -5
. . . clubbing to the latest pop music . . . "Shaking it all about" - is that the expression?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2013 0:35:59 GMT -5
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