Look Out
| I glanced at Sarah's (Blondie's) newest post on her blog this morning and saw that she has started re-reading GOF for the release of the 4th movie coming up. This is a great idea - I re-read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy the summer before the second movie came out, just to really get back into it, and I found tons of new things that excited me ... you can never read this stuff too many times - like the James Cole character played by Bruce Willis says in 12 Monkeys: "I've seen this film before, but it was different; it's like, every time you see it it is different because you're a different person.") So hopefully we'll be hearing some comments from Sarah in the future (she says book 4 is in a tie with book 3 for her favorite) ... I'm guessing she'll have some really good and intersting things to say - I'll be checking her blog to see what they are (and what all interesting is going on in Montreal.) |
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Blondie said ... (October 31, 2005 5:12 PM)
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Merlin said ... (November 01, 2005 12:15 PM)
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Merlin said ... (November 01, 2005 12:19 PM)
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post a commentaww, you're so sweet. I think I have been overdoing the Potter a little lately, as I wake up in the night thinking about how he'll do it this time (although...I clearly already know...)
Speaking of movies - just saw the scene in the new "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie where they turn into sock puppets - that is way too funny!
That is a hilarious scene but actually it is yarn puppets - I mention that only because I thought the funniest part of it was the "yarn hurling" ... I know it is crude and earthy but it looked so damned funny.
For the uninitiated to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, the reason they turn into yarn puppets is the sam reason Ford and Arthur turn into sofas (which I also found hilarious) ... the ship travels through hyperspace using a technology known as the "improbability drive." Through the counting and actualization of the most improbable things it is possible to accomplish the highly improbable of traveling at teh speed of light. Hence in the book when Ford and Arthur are first picked up by the Heary of Gold ship (reminiscent of Potter?) they hear the drive counting down to more and more probable ratios as it nears stabalization in "reality" or "actuality." During this countdown they experience things such as somebody knocking on the door and telling them that there are a number of monkeys outside with a Shakespeare script they have managed to type up by random pecking etc.
Another spaceship technology that is used in one of the later books is that in Slartibartfast's ship, where the engine room is an Italian Bistro because the "science" of space travel is akin to the mysterious and enigmatic calculations on the check pad of a waiter at an Italian Bistro.
I think one of the reasons I like Douglas Adams' brand of "absurdist humor" so much is that it is not really about absurdity. It is more about the wonderful mystery of the universe ... so many things in reality seem so absurd at times but it is just this quality that makes it interesting and humorous and enjoyable and meaningful.
The most obvious example that comes to mind is also the most wonderful ... the relationship of male and female. I obviously cannot bear witness to the female experience of it, but from the male persepctive of it, to my male mind the female mind seems sometimes mysterious to the point of frustration ... but that is precisely what makes women so wondeful and intoxicating, so sublimely beautiful in a very down to earth way.
"so many things in reality seem so absurd at times but it is just this quality that makes it interesting and humorous and enjoyable and meaningful"
IE ... the old addage of, "you have to laugh because if you don't you're gonna cry."
Blondie,
yeah ... but sleep is a funny thing anyway ... my dad told me once that he used to sometimes solve complex math problems in his sleep ... ie he would go to bed not knowing the answer and wake up knowing it
Maybe you'll solve all the puzzles and riddle of HP in your dreams (if you do you have to promise to put it up on our blog first ... just kidding ... sort of -lol)