Posted on 10/27/2005 8:31:33 AM PDT by The Zontron 7000
Whoa.
"The All High, Most Dreaded Sire, the Right Honorable Gentlelady Doctor Miss Tuliptree76."
LOL! Is that fitting for my RKBA title?
Yeah, at 17 I can definitely say that I was far more interested in action than poetic backdrops. Like watching a movie; I tend NOT to spend much time studying the details on the set, although a set designer and property crew invested considerable time and attention to all of the objects found there.
I've an acquaintance working over at Pixar, and speaking with him is an education in how a technical critic looks at a film. Far less focus upon storyline and far more on renderings, lighting, set details, camera angles; all of the minutiae that, translated to the printed page, make rich works like "Wuthering Heights" a challenging read. We've become used to those details being presented implicitly, not explicitly, so when confronted with them in explicit form, they become a sort of literary hiccup; a speed bump on the way to (in the way of?) a plot line. In fact, if we are watching a movie, and there is more attention given to the set than a dramatic, sweeping pan and zoom in upon the characters, we find it distracting, no matter how breathtaking the scenery.
Likely I'd be more tolerant of such literary devices, now, but I've so many other unread books backlogging my shelves that I think it unlikely "Wuthering Heights" will have a second opportunity.
Everyone of you enjoy your evening to the utmost.
See you tomorrow.
:-D
>> The All High, Most Dreaded Sire, the Right Honorable Gentlelady Doctor Miss Tuliptree76
Begging M'lady's pardon but, granting I have not been misled, thou art surely not a "Sire", and the intermittent punctuation impedes a sonorous elocution of thy Title.
I offer, then, "Her All High and Most Dread Ladyship, the Right Honourable Gentlelady, Doctor Tuliptree76"
All rise!
I don't know. There aren't any lads here with me.
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Cool!
With as many errors and technicalities, I don't think I'll ever get a new title.
I just began to put my CD's into a catalog for insurance purposes (DVD's and videos are soon to follow) and when I pulled them up and requested "List" all the copyright dates were 1905, except for the one that was 1988.
This is a new hard drive. I have recovery CD's that came with my last CPU, and wonder if I should use them to get the correct dates, or if there is something I can tweak to make the dates current. (This is wierd!)
Input? Please?
Yeah. Manitoba has proven more resistant to my subverting than I had thought it would.
Ta!
It would appear you've got an old-fashioned piece of programming there, 'Face. It thinks the world is supposed to end in Y2K.
See if you can use a different "catalog," or invest in a cheap, but more modern bit of software.
If you have "Microsoft Access" it should be able to handle the job.
Oh, great. The products of today's American publik skewls are now not only forming plurals using the possessive form ("free margarita's"), they're now forming possessives using the plural form.
But what do I know... I'm only an engineer.
I thought it was "new," but it obviously is not.
(It was a gift from my brother.)
I have the recovery CD's from the other one I had, and I wonder if I can use them without hurting anything.
Same brand, etc.
Hmmm... note to self. Go see it. (Forgot all about the movies with the formerly impending trip.)
Hope they can resolve it in the next 11 months, 'cuz I'm headed to Paris then.
At least you have a goal. ;-)
Yah...go do it! As soon as it comes out on DVD, I'll get it. Or tell Santa I want it! We used to get W&G on PBS in LV...
I got all my engineering know-how by watching "A Fine Day Out."
It made our trip to the moon possible too. And I remembered to bring change for the parking meters!
6th grade was about when I'd polished off Moby Dick and discovered the local used book store. The inside cover of every book was stamped "When you've had your fun / buy another one / at [???]" -- I spent an awful lot of my allowance, and later paper route earnings, at that store.
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