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Interests: Books, reading, poetry, movies (especially old ones), TV, music, Scottish country dance, Highland dance, language, names, Gilbert & Sullivan, LotR, learning, Scotland and its culture, Gaelic, libraries, opera, musicals, theatre, old photographs, art, museums, toys, Jane Austen, cats, garage sales, thrift stores, soundtracks, classical music, old radio programs, orthography, websites, KHCB, Britain, the Celts, Irish step dancing, etcetera.
Expertise: Reading, writing (letters, poetry, stories), fetching a dictionary, tidying, making messes, being imaginative, Scottish country dancing (SCD), baking cookies, using the computer, procrastination, etcetera.
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| "I have heaps of brains. . . . But it's such hard work to use them."
—Philippa Gordon in Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
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| Sense & Sensibility (1981)I rewatch this occasionally. It's the only of the old Jane Austen movies that I own and the first I watched. (The one I felt like never watching again was the old Emma; but because of the Mr. Elton I might some day.)
Favorite Parts
Probably my favorite parts (also, consequently, the parts we've seen the most often) are Marianne and Willoughby singing together (it's a very pretty song), Edward reciting "The Poplar Field," Robert Ferrars at the party ("Choosing the right clothes is the labour of my life!") and later with the toothpick case, and Willoughby coming to Cleveland and talking with Elinor.
Changes
There are many changes in this adaptation. There is no Margaret. Willoughby doesn't know Marianne is ill when he comes to Cleveland (?), and Marianne is sort of like Catherine Morland, so Col. Brandon pushes "The majestic Milton, and the demi-god Shakespeare," whereas in the book, Marianne at least does appreciate Shakespeare already.
Actors/Parts
The parts which I think are really well done (and I like the actors for the parts) are Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Willoughby, John Dashwood, and Lucy Steele. (I would still take Greg Wise as more like my imagined Willoughby, though; but he didn't get the scene at Cleveland, and in the newest movie, that scene was there but wasted.) I think it's nifty how Peter Woodward became a fight arranger; someone on Pemberley was sorry he wasn't asked to help with the duel in the new film, since he had once been Willoughby himself. I'm not against this Col. Brandon, and I think he looks okay, but his acting is just a little melodramatic at parts. Mrs. Jennings is good, and I liked Charlotte.
Edward
One thing I don't understand is this: Why does no adaptation feel like including all of Edward's funny lines? I think they're funny, anyway, as he playfully teazes Marianne, etc. There aren't so many as to make them burdensome, and they would help lighten his character and make him likeable. Bosco Hogan (what a neat name, by the way!) makes a pretty good Edward but not as outstanding as this Elinor. I love his recitation of "The Poplar Field"! | | |
| I just woke up from a dream.In it, there were teams working to accomplish a goal. The goal was to get the team's lamb into a large metal cage on wheels (my team borrowed one from an old lady; inside were slices of French bread), then bring the lamb, a bag, a piece of paper (like the paper on contact paper), and a toy (stuffed animal) through the streets (kind of like streets one would see on Rick Steves' show, like old Italian streets or something), up some steps, and to the back wall of a baseball field, where the team would win who first got all their stuff there and put everything (including the lamb) into the bag.
Well, my team was ahead when we got the lamb to the new cage (not sure why we had to switch to the one with the bread in it), but we had had trouble getting the lamb out and into the new one, and some of the latches/whatevers that opened & closed the cages were also difficult. The other team soon had their lamb in their cage and was setting off also for the baseball field. I called to my teammates to hurry! I and someone else (a man?) pulling the cage hurried to push it ahead of the other team's to block theirs if we could, and it worked for the time, which thrilled me that our idea had worked. We sent someone (Mr. Vaughan from our church) on ahead to carry the bag and maybe the paper too, and when we were being slower, and he was kind of waiting for us, we told him to run on ahead and wait for us. He went around the right, where there weren't any stairs, so he got outside and on the field while we were still heading to the stairs. We actually didn't have to take the stairs, but they were on the right, and a bunch of people and blockages like big dressers, people selling things were on the left. I asked the person pulling with me what we should do, and he said go to the stairs and just try to heave the lamb cage along. By this point the cage was more like one of those big luggage bags with wheels and a handle. We pulled, and the other team was right behind us. The guy pulling for them now was my Uncle Greg, and he seemed to really want to win. We pulled through a gate, I think with honeysuckle on it like in our backyard, and we were really working hard, but the other team was catching up and had some stronger people on it. We called someone to not forget to bring the toy. The other team, as we were on the field and running to the goal, inexplicably gave up! My Uncle Greg just stopped pulling and let us win! We still hurried. We put all the stuff in the bag that was waiting for us.
The others were so happy to have won. But I woke up actually speaking something to the effect of, "But they stopped and let us win! It wasn't fair!"
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| I took an hour nap today.I think it was a wise thing to do. I napped from 1:40-2:40 (I set my alarm), and I dreamed that T, C, and I were trying to do synchronized swimming, but our pool was tiny and had a tall diving platform attached, and the stairs planted in the water were hard to swim around. One of my sisters reminded me that as synchronized swimmers we had always to be moving and making what use we could of the pool. Somehow I knew the synchronized swimmers were supposed to have one dive off into the pool, but we were all in the pool already. It was a weird dream. Then I also dreamed that at the end of the Olympics, there was a celebration by the pools, where the coaches were playfully sent down water slides and other such goings on. I was glad I had the nap, because otherwise I would have been too tired for our trip to our Highland teacher's house and straight on to Cornerstone and not home till about 9:30.
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| Cute Animal Babies
I thought you might enjoy this. I think T & C will.
If you haven't yet, check out C's website to see her pictures from Spain (she has them protected, though, I think, so you will have to be on her list that can see her posts).
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