Don’t be too quick to write off Vegemite. I read an article some time back about how some people love the taste that cilantro imparts to a dish, while others insist that it just tastes like soap. It turns out that each type of person is right … depending on whether or not they have a particular genetic twist that affects their taste receptors. I’m one of the lucky ones for whom cilantro is a heavenly addition; it’s entirely possible that other people — even most other people — simply aren’t as sensitive to the bitter aspect of Vegemite that I haven’t been able to escape to date.
My motto: if it’s new — and not objectionably immoral, ridiculously expensive, prohibitively dangerous, or just too much work — it’s worth giving a try.
As far as “Gone With the Wind”, I’m loving it so far. There are so many insights, so many previously unknown depths to characters we thought were familiar from the movie, but of course the movie was never going to be able to capture 1,000 pages of dense prose. (These days, a three-season miniseries might manage to pull it off, but even then there are some things that just don’t work away from the printed page … in the same way a page can never communicate the subtleties of a particular glance, delivered at a particular moment, from a particular angle, at a particular time.) I’ve only just started in on Scarlett’s unexpected new status as war widow and surprised mother, with no idea how much will come out that the movie simply never had the space to show. And the language is so rich … every ten pages or so, I’ll put the book down, go to the next room where Susan is watching TV, and talk with her about some fresh thought that’s been excited by this ‘novel’ narrative.
(Susan said she read it when she was twelve. She said her mother loved the movie, but probably had never read the book or she’d never have permitted it for her pre-teen daughter. Susan said she remembered getting to certain passages and going, “Oh. Oh. Well, now.”)
People who get tired of life, just haven’t looked far enough.
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Date: 2020-08-07 12:20 am (UTC)My motto: if it’s new — and not objectionably immoral, ridiculously expensive, prohibitively dangerous, or just too much work — it’s worth giving a try.
As far as “Gone With the Wind”, I’m loving it so far. There are so many insights, so many previously unknown depths to characters we thought were familiar from the movie, but of course the movie was never going to be able to capture 1,000 pages of dense prose. (These days, a three-season miniseries might manage to pull it off, but even then there are some things that just don’t work away from the printed page … in the same way a page can never communicate the subtleties of a particular glance, delivered at a particular moment, from a particular angle, at a particular time.) I’ve only just started in on Scarlett’s unexpected new status as war widow and surprised mother, with no idea how much will come out that the movie simply never had the space to show. And the language is so rich … every ten pages or so, I’ll put the book down, go to the next room where Susan is watching TV, and talk with her about some fresh thought that’s been excited by this ‘novel’ narrative.
(Susan said she read it when she was twelve. She said her mother loved the movie, but probably had never read the book or she’d never have permitted it for her pre-teen daughter. Susan said she remembered getting to certain passages and going, “Oh. Oh. Well, now.”)
People who get tired of life, just haven’t looked far enough.