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Yes, I remember you. Will

LisB — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:37:22 +0000

In reply to hey Lis -- Sorry to contact

Yes, I remember you. Will do.

hey Lis -- Sorry to contact

mattadams — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:29:39 +0000

hey Lis --

Sorry to contact you this way, but I'm starting something I'd like you to be a part of. If you remember me, and are a little curious, drop me a line at matt@msa03.com.

Good piece, by the way. Hope to hear from you -- Matt

sympathising with

jollyroger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:07:00 +0000

In reply to She was awesome. I was so

sympathising with Rudyard

Well, he did, in fact, murder his son (as he indelicately put it..) Plus, there is a very good argument to be made that if WWI had not occurred, ( or, failing which, if the US had entered on the other side) the rest of the 20th century would have looked like paradise compared to what we got.

Hence, his bloviating about the impending rape of the flower of English womanhood by the marauding Hun is a good stand in for "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here at home..." and about as apposite.

poring through photo after

jollyroger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:01:38 +0000

In reply to She was awesome. I was so

poring through photo after photo of young soldiers, looking to find Jack's image amongst them all.

That was painful to watch, and, I suspect veridical. It does confront one with the gap between the horror and loss of having a child go "missing" (as if...) and the pitifully small things one can try to do--the repitition being, of course, a poor substitute for efficicacy. Especialy where the underlying premise is that, somehow, they saw a picture of their son and failed to recognize him, so let's go through them all again...

The horrendous mismatch between the visions of gallantry peddled by Kipling and the reality of trench warfare is a paradigm for the transformation from war as a contest contained within rules and partaking of some limits to the total war that ends today with "shock and awe"

Kipling himself, of course, was not without some insight into the inherent fiction of war as a gallant calling and the reality of the battlefield

. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

I had no idea, Quinn! Thanks

LisB — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:53:29 +0000

In reply to Cattrall's Canuck-English.

I had no idea, Quinn! Thanks for that bit of info. I've learned something new.

Cattrall's Canuck-English.

quinn esq — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:40:44 +0000

In reply to She was awesome. I was so

Cattrall's Canuck-English.

She was awesome. I was so

LisB — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:17:43 +0000

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She was awesome. I was so surprised, seeing her play Jack's mother, but then I realized Rudyard's wife was American. She was very good, especially in that very intense scene when she and Kipling were poring through photo after photo of young soldiers, looking to find Jack's image amongst them all.

I don't know about you, but I had a very hard time sympathising with Rudyard in this film, with him pushing his son into war. I tried to put myself in his shoes, given his sense of patriotism, and living in that era, but I really felt frustrated with him at times.

I'm so out of touch I didn't

jollyroger — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:55:04 +0000

In reply to Yes, on PBS last month. What

I'm so out of touch I didn't actually make the "Potter" connection til I had seen it twice. A sure sign it's time to have more kids. How 'bout Kim Cattrall? Range...

LOL, yes, that's why I said

LisB — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:38:47 +0000

In reply to You'd have seen quite a bit

LOL, yes, that's why I said that. Seeing him naked might finally help dispell the Harry Potter 'spell'.

You'd have seen quite a bit

Donal — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:20:14 +0000

In reply to Yes, on PBS last month. What

You'd have seen quite a bit of him.