[alexander_busek]

Incidententally Colleen McCullough wrote an obscure novel called Tim. A movie was made of that, a sleeper to me at least, starring Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson. It was done well but it touched on a subject that ended "awkwardly". Sigh.

Very incidentally.

Regards,

[Aliska]

I'm not sure what you meant by the itallcized Very followed by indicentally. To be more specific, if it is fiction involving serious moral lapses that make it look acceptable because "they love each other", etc., no. Like Brokeback Mountain. Although I did get caught up in Dr. Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter.

And Lady Chattlerly's Lover. Oh my, the movie was playing and my elderly aunt came to visit. So apart from the storyline which I knew, I always liked some movies filmed on certain locations, especially England.

So I convinced my aunt to come with me. Not a word was said during the entire film, but when the lights went back on and my aunt held my arm back up the aisle, it caused more than a few stares. Next day I took her to visit an old friend in a nursing home. I sat quietly while they visited. She told her friend all about the movie, especially the part about where the actor strung some flowers all along her naked torso. Heh.

In a way the book was better. DH Lawrence didn't lead a very happy life. We were required to read the Prussian Officer in English Lit. I did. We were told the officer had a homosexual attraction to his orderly. Hmmm. How could he know that? I was ignorant about such things, read the story, didn't really like it.

I do think I generally have a tendency to see a whole lot of things superficially and don't perceive a deeper meaning if there is one.