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[lookingland]

i watched kubrick's Barry Lyndon this weekend.

it was pretty to look at (fabulous costumes).

it was long.

that about sums it up.



the aquaria-like quality of this film makes it
pleasantly fascinating and mind-numbingly boring
depending on your state of mind
~ * ~

i'm on page 91 (of 3,000) of The Baroque Cycle. i like it, though it does tend to go on a bit much. the writing is good enough that i haven't gotten bored with it, though i am beginning to get a wee fussy for the plot to move forward (after 91 pages, i think i have been patient enough).

~ * ~

i'm hosting Thanksgiving dinner, turns out, which has me excited and distracted (and all-over-tired too).

i finished NaNo on monday. did i already mention this? whatever.

i feel pestered lately and cannot shake the feeling. prolly because there are so many things need doing and they're not getting done. (the usual).

and that's pretty much all there is to report. tomorrow is a long day of dentistry and errands and house cleaning. relatives visiting this weekend, so i may be signing off from posting for a while, but i'll try to continue reading along!

happy holidays to my american f-listers!

: D



for all the gifts and blessings of the year,
may we all be truly thankful!

Comments

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

not being a fan of thackery or fitzgerald myself, i can see where therein lies part of the problem.

i can also see your point, but perhaps from my angle, i have a hard time empathizing with characters who squander their gifts and blessings. while part of me wants to draw some moral epilogue from these tales, another part of me just feels the lives were ultimately wasted: devoid of anything greater than the cheap glow of ambition/decadence.

at any rate: worth a ponder. or two.

: D

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I guess if one wished to see something
in these characters it would be in
seeing something noble in their ambition--
what one might say distinguishes ambition
and quest? and is the desire to be at
home in the world of brightness and lights
ignoble or decadant? perhaps it is a quest
pitched too low and mistaking the lower
for the higher...
the green light at the end of the pier
but are higher quests free from tragic
end...Captain Ahab's ship destroyed...
and if that is flawed...what of all the
others who were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth...
"some wandered in the desert seeking a
city they could dwell in (Psalms)..."
"People who say such things confess
that they seek a city..."
but many died in the desert and in the
wilderness ...
we do not see the ends of things...

anyway this is how it seems to me.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i like that vantage ~ i tend to ask a story to clue me in on the end. the tragedy of the fall is one thing, but i like to know that it's a felix culpa, personally.

because i want to know that's what the author was hopeful for perhaps?

in fact, it may be for the author who would write such a story (rather than the character) that i find myself the most concerned.