tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post4910123400206932587..comments2023-10-23T07:38:48.285-07:00Comments on Adorable Trivialities: Mortify Me! Scandalize Me!Justinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07675442512111141220noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-79818899356673373592007-10-10T22:30:00.000-07:002007-10-10T22:30:00.000-07:00Hello, I started reading this blog tonight because...Hello, I started reading this blog tonight because it hit on a search I was doing for Millbank. I too am interested in finding out what this book was about, and what made it so special.<BR/><BR/>If you were able to find any information on it I would appreciate if you would blog about it or e-mail me skuzafan@aol.com<BR/><BR/>I've enjoyed your blogs, especially the one on Pa's fiddle...One day I will get to see it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your time, <BR/>Susan Anding <BR/>Tyler, TXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-10906764662978683412007-10-07T20:04:00.000-07:002007-10-07T20:04:00.000-07:00I've never seen that one, Justine - in fact, I was...I've never seen that one, Justine - in fact, I was not even aware it existed! Seeing as how I really like Colin Firth (I own <I>Bridget Jone's Diary</I> because of him) I guess I need to get my hands on that ASAP! Thanks for the tip. =)Ariellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13414921155140556313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-70363627849650226182007-10-02T16:36:00.000-07:002007-10-02T16:36:00.000-07:00Arielle -- you cannot tell me that you saw the A&E...Arielle -- you cannot tell me that you saw the A&E <I>P&P (1995)</I> and were not blown away . . . can you? I thought that Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle were practically perfect in every way! To me, that is the high mark to which all past and future portrayals of <I>P&P</I> are held.<BR/><BR/>Was that the Amanda Root <I>Persuasion</I> from 1995, Flicka? I rather enjoyed that one myself.<BR/><BR/>And, speaking of enjoying, I am thoroughly enjoying <I>Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture and Laura Ingalls Wilder</I>. It is actually a highly readable book; and, though I disagree with almost everything Ms. Romines has written, I am delighting in her minute examination of the LIW books. I may have to buy this book, because the 3 week inter-library loan does not allow for the subsequent re-readings I am sure to wish to indulge in (nor does it allow for the highlighting and marginalia I so ache to scribble).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-58072948559086191562007-10-01T16:30:00.000-07:002007-10-01T16:30:00.000-07:00Persuasion is an excellent read. I don't think I'v...<I>Persuasion</I> is an excellent read. I don't think I've seen the movie, though. Of the adaptations I've seen, I enjoyed <I>Emma</I> (with Gwyneth Paltrow) and <I>Sense & Sensibility</I> (with Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet) - but I may have seen the movies for those before I read the books. I've yet to see an adaption of <I>Pride & Prejudice</I> that I really liked. <BR/><BR/>As for an understatement - I suppose I did take it rather stoically. I'd suspected from the get-go that they would not remain faithful to the character of Fanny Price - the fact that they tinkered with other characters as well wasn't unexpected, either!Ariellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13414921155140556313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-91141548663996589192007-09-28T13:25:00.000-07:002007-09-28T13:25:00.000-07:00I just finished "Persuasion" on DVD during a four ...I just finished "Persuasion" on DVD during a four hour glucose tolerance test I had to take recently. (I passed with flying colors, thank God)<BR/><BR/>Persuasion was a masterpiece. Haven't read the book yet - but the movie was in keeping with Austen's superlative character developement, the way she questions long held dogmas, and high moral stadard, <BR/>and her vision of "Passionately Romantic" love.Flicka Spumonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670369483815796358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-13573909100999964622007-09-28T10:15:00.000-07:002007-09-28T10:15:00.000-07:00I did -- and I know yours is coming up in about a ...I did -- and I know yours is coming up in about a fortnight!<BR/><BR/>Ooh ooh, the library got in my copy of Romines's book yesterday. I'm taking it on the plane down to L.A. this afternoon. I'm sure I'll be chortling into my beverage service selection all the way down.<BR/><BR/>And, Arielle, I forgot to post earlier that I think your comment wins for understatement of the year. "Very disappointed," is an almost British way of expressing the turbulent emotions that that movie thrust into the breast of any (decent) Austen fan: betrayal, white hot fury, disgust, revulsion, searing pain, temporary fantasies of revenge, etc. Yea, an' I, too, was very disappointed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-53475654280295405342007-09-28T07:04:00.000-07:002007-09-28T07:04:00.000-07:00Ugh!I just realizes my post of a few days ago didn...Ugh!<BR/><BR/>I just realizes my post of a few days ago didn't go through. Perhaps I wasn't logged in...<BR/><BR/>Anywho, Happy Belated Birthday! You did make another full revolution around the sun on the 13th of this month, right?Flicka Spumonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670369483815796358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-11091592533744825272007-09-27T14:37:00.000-07:002007-09-27T14:37:00.000-07:00Nope, Mark -- I think you are nailing that point r...Nope, Mark -- I think you are nailing that point right on its head! I like your innocence vs. obscene contrast.<BR/><BR/>Or, to turn around a Freud quote (apropos, considering he is the father of most of this nonsense), "Usually, a cigar is just a cigar."<BR/><BR/>I just pity people who live with this warped point of view. Their lives must be rather miserable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-4720258845232545722007-09-27T12:43:00.000-07:002007-09-27T12:43:00.000-07:00I often think that those in the "intellecual" comm...I often think that those in the "intellecual" community have way over-stetched in their interpretation of what is simply a life lived by those who are, generally, innocent. The innocent know right from wrong, but do not dwell on the wrong; they dwell on the right, and live their lives in accordance with it. <BR/><BR/>Tom Lehrer, the satirical singer song-writer, once described one of his songs as "obscene . . . or as they say in New York, sophisticated." That quote, I believe is descriptive of the problem with the Romines book: Romines point-of-view comes from the obscene, while Ingalls came from innocence.<BR/><BR/>Only in dwelling on those things that are wrong can you re-interpret others' writing or behaviour (from afar) as being illicit. To Wilder, for example, a haystack was a haystack (I have no doubt). To Romines it's a phallic symbol? <BR/><BR/>Or am I missing some point?Mark.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08037231672699876085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098217.post-72955206514728013382007-09-17T22:10:00.000-07:002007-09-17T22:10:00.000-07:00I was also very disappointed with the movie versio...I was also very disappointed with the movie version of Mansfield Park. You had to expect that it would be very difficult to find someone in this day and age willing to portray Fanny Price as she was written.Ariellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13414921155140556313noreply@blogger.com