Posted on 08/30/2020 9:46:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Loathe Rap and that was just weird and dumb.
I couldn’t help read your profile and saw you mentioned your PhD thesis on Martin Heidegger’s influence on US education. I’m curious because I would never have dreamed that there would be a connection between the two — maybe indirectly with postmodernism or existentialism, but that’s about it. That seems like an original topic where there probably isn’t much being written on. Anyway, just curious to see the two connected. Usual I think they would be opposites: old world (continental philosophy) vs New World (pragmatism).
“Because there is no real Beowulf. Not anymore. ..”
This is the ‘tell’. Literary version of window-breaking theory.
As someone says above: We have Mike Fink.
I don’t think Olivier’s was light in the loafers, but it was reductionist to only focus on Freudian and Oedipal elements. It feels much shorter than it is. He really took the pruning sheers to the text.
I checked a weird scene from that movie and wish it was released. I sometimes think Shakespeare and his crew of poets would rap and insult each other for sport. It happens in bars in England and it can be very witty.
The Brothers
BFL. I read those 40+ years ago, might be time for a re-read.
See it’s a crazy movie. I actually saw it in the theater.
If NPR is pushing this, you need to avoid it.
I”ll stick with Heaney and Tolkien.
“That’s one boring and long story”
Maybe you should try this new version.
Bkmk interesting Beowulf thread
I have the Seamus Heaney translation.
The version in this article sounds sort of like what the narrator of the “Myths and Legends” podcast does.
I decline the offer of purchase, perusal, ponderance, or any profundity that might ooze from this trash can dribble.
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Run through the Ebonics Translator:
"Yo! My stack o' dolla bills iz ahs as boundless as da watah, My blahnd is as big as yur butt; da mo I give you b_tch - da mo you ax fah!"
I like Seamus Heaney’s version. He presents his translation with the original, which he reads himself.
No, this is not the drunk at the bar recalling his football days.
This is an old soldier, sitting with other old soldiers, talking about a legendary general who became the leader of a nation with a growing crowd of kids sitting at their feet on the floor.
We watched the 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” in class, in the 1970s (or maybe early 1980s).
This is literary deconstruction—the equivalent of pulling down the statues of Western Civilization.
Have to disagree. Liked it so much I asked for it for Christmas a few years ago, a half century after reading it in college. My new copy has the original old English and a modern, but not Ebonics translation. Good stuff
Abso-fricken-lutely on target.
In the words of Taiko Woke-titty, "I'll ruin your mythos in a minute, baby!" That's the plan.
All the modern stories are being destroyed: Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and soon Lord of the Rings - all falling to the forces of Woke. Now they're turning to the classics of our culture.
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