Posted on 07/18/2013 11:58:56 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
In the original Miami Vice television series, Detective Zito is murdered in Season Three. After learning of his death, co-cops Crockett, Tubbs and Switek visit his house, where they discover Zito's collection of snow globes. They look at them in bewilderment, and the clear message delivered by their faces—in as ham-fisted a way as only '80s American television can do it—is "Wow, I guess we didn't really know this guy at all." Cue violins. An as hackneyed as that moment was, it was the first time your adolescent correspondent understood the usage of physical objects as a narrative device in storytelling.
Years later in ID school, professors who apparently knew each other as well as Zito and Switek delivered conflicting messages on this front. One professor would tell you that "Objects exist to tell stories—they tell us about ourselves!" while others said objects were mere intermediaries that we should design to be unobtrusive; the whole "People don't want a toaster, they just want toast" mentality.
It's easy to see the ... that a child from that family would do well in school.
Any guesses as to what that object is? A computer? A television? An iPad?
What if we told you it's a piece of furniture?
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Well, I was in the ballpark :)
“what do you think it is?”
A gun cabinet.
Bingo... great response!
I assume he means bookcases used AS bookcases, not shelves for snow-globes, Beanie Babies or Tourist Trophies.
I enjoy “reading” bookshelves when I visit a home, scanning spines, noting the titles & authors.
Yes, it can tell you a lot about a person. Condition of the books also matters. Have they been read (and re-read) or are they merely a purchased book collection to show his “intellect”.
It's a bookshelf. Of course, the bookshelf must be full of books. The implication is that parents that like to read pass that desire for knowledge on to their children.
There were indeed two sets of bookshelves in my families home. But, one of them was IN MY ROOM.
When the Scholastic book catalog came to school, I typically ordered a dozen at a time. But that wasn't enough: I went to the city library every couple of weeks, and borrowed as many as I could. I remember several times I was told I had to put 1 or 2 back, because I was only allowed to borrow 10 at a time.
Today, my office bookshelf has a limited number of books, because I rarely kept them after I finished them. And I don't buy paper books any longer: they are all on my Kindle. I usually have 3-4 unread books waiting for me at any time.
When I moved in, I had the carpenter cover all the LR walls with book shelves, and I still don’t have enough room for the books.
Hmm...I think I had two bookcases in my bedroom. BTT.
A Stamp Collection would be at the top of my list....I learned more about the world as a kid, just from having a stamp collection.
this gets response of the day.
Lincoln's love of books was legendary. He was mostly self-taught.
So was Grover Cleveland, our last Democrat president whom I would put in the great category.
My Dad grew up on the rez but quickly realized the value of books when he attended college on the G.I. Bill after World War II. It didn't hurt that he pursued and finally convince my mother, daughter of a college professor, to marry him.
We always had a lot of books growing up, even though we had no television for much of the time. Everyone their six kids grew up to be well-educated and, even more important, not a single one of us grew up to be a bed-wetting liberal.
Well, maybe. If the bookcases are filled with books, then yes, the kids are going to do well in school because this is a family that treasures learning and information.
But what if those two bookcases are filled with video games or porn? Now how are the kids going to do?
It isn’t the bookcases. It’s what in them.
Cajones?
Of course after reading the thread I know it’s bookshelves. I have 6 or 7. (bookshelves that is)
We had a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica on ours, spent hours just reading it.
A gun and a Bible.
I was correct: bookcase or anything that can contain reading material. My Dad gave me one when I was little. Mostly books but also used it for my comic book collection.
I guess they didn’t discover my “bookcase” of dirty mags underneath my bed.
“A Leather Belt and a King James Holy Bible?!”
Sounds like a liberal suicide kit.
One to use, one to sell?
Post or K&E?
An alarm clock?
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