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Post by Uncle Henry on Nov 20, 2015 19:13:33 GMT -5
Doushitemo Furetakunai is the name of this recent Japanese cinematographical effort, bound to hold the interest of many of our members. It is all about goings on in and out of the office. A clean-limbed Englishman of the better classes might translate the title as "No Touching at All". Sample images:    Those of our members who appreciate the Japanese sense of humour may press on through HERE.
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Post by ahinton on Nov 21, 2015 2:26:00 GMT -5
A clean-limbed Englishman of the better classes might translate the title as "No Touching at All". What on earth is one of those and what relevance might he have to this? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 7:02:03 GMT -5
Well for the meaning the member is exhorted to turn to the Oxford English Dictionary. And for the relevance we advise the same member to watch the film itself, whereafter having done so, he may be in a position to tell us! This being because having asked the question he is himself best placed to find an answer - his question is a question of that kind as indeed are most.
Is it not odder and odder that after Uncle Henry's posting (so far) of fourteen items of presumed interest to people of our sort so few, in fact none, of those to whom they were presented in the expectation of tempting them to join have in fact stepped up, associated themselves with our assemblage and downloaded anything whatever!
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Post by ahinton on Nov 21, 2015 7:46:17 GMT -5
Well for the meaning the member is exhorted to turn to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Exhorted", indeed! Quite unnecessarily, for my question did not arise from lack of understanding of English people cleaning their limbs in the shower but from puzzlement as to why they in particular might impact upon the subject and what this "better classes" stuff was supposed to be about. Is it not odder and odder that after Uncle Henry's posting (so far) of fourteen items of presumed interest to people of our sort so few, in fact none, of those to whom they were presented in the expectation of tempting them to join have in fact stepped up, associated themselves with our assemblage and downloaded anything whatever! Whilst I have not downloaded anything, I have at least commented on some of what has been put here, which is more than most other members have done! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2015 10:19:39 GMT -5
I should apologise, Sydney, although as a rule, I download the minimum! Your choice of music and film is interesting, and I have been enjoying love. More later ... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 0:43:58 GMT -5
Love is all very well kc but there should be - indeed must be - hundreds of eager Englishmen searching for Schönberg every day of the year must there not; where are they? Perhaps we are still being inadequately indexed. And in regard to the other member's query about our class system: Sir Anthony, who with his legs really needed neither "money" nor "nation-state", might serve, or vice versa. The warmest it has ever recently been in Dunkerque is 38.2 centigrade degrees, and the coldest minus 18. |
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Post by ahinton on Nov 24, 2015 3:01:48 GMT -5
there should be - indeed must be - hundreds of eager Englishmen searching for Schönberg every day of the year must there not; where are they? What on earth are you talking about and what does this bizarre notion have to do with the topic? Why English people? Why only men? Why would they search eagerly for Schönberg daily when his work is easy to find and the excellent Schönberg Centre in Vienna is one of the finest research resources of its kind anywhere? And what has Schönberg got to do with the topic? And in regard to the other member's query about our class system: Sir Anthony, who with his legs really needed neither "money" nor "nation-state", might serve, or vice versa. Whose class system? Whose class? What system? What and/or who might this deceased self-blunted ex-knight of the realm "serve"? - and how? The warmest it has ever recently been in Dunkerque is 38.2 centigrade degrees, and the coldest minus 18. Celsius, please - not "centigrade"! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 15:53:53 GMT -5
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Post by ahinton on Nov 25, 2015 4:42:29 GMT -5
About what? Did you know that there was a fire at the Center some 14 weeks ago? The library there is reopening rather earlier than had initially been anticipated. The Center, which has been open for some 18 years, is one of the most remerkable research institutions in the world that is dedicatd to the work of a single composer; its website is well worth visiting. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 12:59:42 GMT -5
Thank you for the information, ahinton. Next time I am in Vienna, I shall endeavour to visit the Arnold Schönberg Center. Schönberg was, in my judgement, one of the great innovators of classical music, although I am not entirely sure that his innovations have ever really captured the public imagination? As for Sydney, I was confused by your reference to Sir Anthony Blunt! Did you know him? |
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Post by ahinton on Nov 25, 2015 16:35:49 GMT -5
Thank you for the information, ahinton. Next time I am in Vienna, I shall endeavour to visit the Arnold Schönberg Center. Schönberg was, in my judgement, one of the great innovators of classical music, although I am not entirely sure that his innovations have ever really captured the public imagination? As for Sydney, I was confused by your reference to Sir Anthony Blunt! Did you know him? I was/am as "confused" by the reference to Blunt as I was/am to that to Schönberg in the particular context of this thread and I have to confess to remaining so... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 4:26:53 GMT -5
Uncle Henry's actually - not mine - but interesting, yes, good point. |
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Post by ahinton on Nov 28, 2015 8:00:52 GMT -5
Uncle Henry's actually - not mine - but interesting, yes, good point. So there's a difference, then, Gerard?... |
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