A small group of trainspotters, an indigenous species, note the highly specialised camouflage. Gatherings of this size are becoming increasingly rare. Some specialists suggest that their decline may be due to global boredom. Posted from WordPress for Android
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Dogville
Dogville (Lars Von Trier) allows interpretation from many perspectives. As SP said, it is like a Shakespeare play in that respect amongst others. I focus below on a set of ideas, perhaps more words, I encountered in Lacanian writing about the film. Zizek refers to Dogville in A perverts guide to Cinema, and elsewhere other …
me after my daughter has done with me
So far so good. We all watched some of Dogville this evening. We didn’t get all the way through. That was ok, because I was fearful of how the women present would react to the lead up to the denoumemt, the climax. Posted from WordPress for Android
Afghanistan, Allegory, the Kite Runner and Knowledge
I watched the Kite Runner, the film directed by Marc Forster (2007). I’ve not read the book but from the comments of various people who had read it I was expecting something very different, something more. I experienced the film as profoundly allegorical, relating a story of America’s involvement in Afghanistan prior to the current …
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for example
Sheffield has a plethora of Edwardian terraced houses. Street after street of them with more or less ornate decorative features. I came across these windows recently. They are on three houses each one separated by only one other house in the same terrace. They are amongst the few that I’ve seen where the window furnishing …
famous last words
In a parish church in Sheffield, a barn of a building, so spacious inside, looking at a stained glass window my eyes are drawn to a dedication and not the image. The size of the building and an imagined small congregation brings to me how short a time has elapsed between the grand schemes of …
the biro, bottle, foil and fag ash
This is a crackpipe belonging to a friend of a friend of friend [Fofafoaf]. A piece of tin foil covering the top of the bottle would have a bed of cigarette ash placed in it, the crack sitting on top and the smoke drawn through it. Fofafoaf says he really likes it a lot, it …
in permanance
Sitting in a café on the high street, looking out across the road I suddenly notice a young woman standing in a telephone kiosk, still while people on the street pass by. I realise she runs the stall selling hats and scarves. Her stillness surprises me, emphasising how busy I am, how busy we often …
working class, yes i said it, working class
I heard an interview with Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Unite. Asked about why he wouldn’t accept the current plans concerning pension reform bearing in mind the financial pressures everyone was experiencing he spoke about how the pension funds that provided for the pensions of the Unite members were in good financial health. He …
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meeting the people
In the atrium, OK, the arrival lounge, no, the lobby, I don’t know, that bit inside the supermarket but not inside the shopping area proper… is an information board which announces (top left) that you can meet our suppliers. I would guess that this is a typical display in such shops which tells people about …