sorry did you say something?
what was this thread about again?
:-)
LMAO
To put it succinctly, I would give it a title something like 'Trends in French Philosophy'
Here's another one of the better examples of French Philosophy, in my view :-)
Posted on 10/26/2007 8:00:03 AM PDT by Stoat
Wipe the foam from your before you speak, it’s getting sick.
I’m done. If it fulfills some deep emotional need, you may have the last word.
OK, so she's not J.R.R.Tolkien or C. S. Lewis, but they're children's stories, and rollicking good reads!
Harry Potter:
Official Children’s Book of Miller Beer.
The PIC looks like a drag queen. I don’t think that’s particular a “French” attribute.
That's not what she said at all. She 'outed' Dumbledore in an offhand way by saying that he 'loved' Grindenwald when he was a young man. I make a clear distinction between homosexual orientation and activity, and don't use the word 'gay' to describe homosexuals because it is more a POLITICAL term than one identifying a sexual inclination.
Since there is no homosexual activity in the Harry Potter books, I prefer to consider Dumbledore as asexual, as are all the teachers at the school.
Plotwise, yes. Quality of writing? Horrors.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=578de009-03fd-46df-8722-cef9de657d32&&Headline=Harry+Potter+author+'outs'+Dumbledore
Her words, not mine.
Oh please. Wikipedia? Since any fool can write anything they want there, on any subject, I’ll go with what I already KNOW, not what some fevered imagination can concoct.
FWIW, the quality of writing got much better as the books progressed.
True, she’s no Tolkien or Lewis. And she’d tell you that.
She’s no nothing in my book. Who cares?
Well, since you keep commenting on this thread, apparently you do.
omg...lol
Brigitte Bardot looks like a drag queen? WOW...first time I've heard that.
I don’t think that’s particular a “French” attribute.
Not being one to associate with drag queens, I wouldn't know one way or another.
I'm sorry that my poor attempt at levity failed in this case.
Don't know about the books themselves, but since Rowlings announced that one of the characters was homosexual, that kinda tells us that she is a leftist.
what was this thread about again?
:-)
LMAO
To put it succinctly, I would give it a title something like 'Trends in French Philosophy'
Here's another one of the better examples of French Philosophy, in my view :-)
I never said they were YOUR words. What I DID say was that she never wrote that as part of her story, so I choose to look at it as a strong friendship between Dumbledore and Grindenwald, as I understood it when I read the book the first time. I never attributed their relationship to anything but a desire together to change the world for the good. Socialist, maybe, but not homosexual. Dumbledore also states in the story that he was wrong to think that way, so at least we knew he became a little more wise as he aged.
Yes - the Potter stories are set in the 1990’s.
The power of love is one of the major themes in the Potter oeuvre, she noted, and "certainly it's never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man [like Dumbledore] would never love other men.
"He's my character," she asserted. "I have the right to know what I know about him and say what I say about him."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071024.ROWLING24/TPStory/Entertainment
Rowling refered to Dumbledore as gay, not once gay but as being gay his whole life. Rowling implies that Dumbledore's relationship with Grindenwald was wrong because it made him blind, not because it was a homosexual encounter.
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