From recent movie attempt to improve the Robinson Crusoe perspective: Crusoe (Aiden Quinn) and the Warrior (Ade Sapara) in Caleb Deschanel’s Crusoe Arthurian tales often show the process of rising slowly through violence and obedience in an aristocratic society — that’s what the boys are shown. Dear friends and readers, Another blog which is partly [...]
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Cyberspace communities mapped
Posted in 20th century culture, Facebook on October 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, Tonight over dinner the Admiral, Izzy and I got to talking about how cyberspace had changed over the years since we first entered it — for all three of us around 1995. I had been telling them I and a friend, Ian, had been “instant messaging” about Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and [...]
How much our houses can mean: putting away one’s life, what was once close to hand, near to heart
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Facebook, library books, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, tagged clarissa, Our house on September 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — R. L. Stevenson Our house, 1984 (Jim’s mother, me, two daughters): it has not changed all that much Our backyard: you see Izzy’s windows last summer Dear [...]
