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Thoughts on Tuesday
1. With the conviction of Dharum Ravi of webcam spying, intimidation, etc. of Tyler Clementi, I'm sure the state of NJ feels it has laid to rest any doubts that "We love our gays." (Clementi was gay.) and that we will not (edit) condone bullying.
Sad, and perhaps fitting of the classical meaning of tragic, that two teenagers' lives have been destroyed. They were both 18 at the time of the incident, which is still within the psychological time frame when kids' brains are not mature enough to think out the consequences of their actions.
This case has been rehashed too many times and that road is too tiring for me to trudge again. But sleep well NJ. Hell of a job.
2. Reading Joseph Ellis, Washington. I do abhor chatty secondary source history and I mistakenly put Ellis in that group of popular history writers. I was wrong. If Ellis tells you that Washington is looking out at a dismal, gray day, he'll quote from Washington's diary as his source. I'm early in the book, just past the part where Washington as a surveyor of the Ohio lands meets a tribal chief and both men know he (Washington) is there as the first step of the English take-over of tribal lands.
3. Saw most of, excepting the first 5 minutes, Twin Sisters. It's a foreign movie about separated twin girls before, during and after WWII in Europe. It touches on the Nazi final solution of the Jews but that is more of a catalyst for the turn of events between the sisters. It's basically about the travails of life: familial love, separations, misunderstandings, hatreds, wasted time and finally reconciliation. All of which can happen in lifetimes whether or not the world is engulfed in war. As it is often with foreign films, this is a "small" movie with horrors happening offstage but it's a movie for thinking about human existence where the 2 hour length goes rapidly by.
Sad, and perhaps fitting of the classical meaning of tragic, that two teenagers' lives have been destroyed. They were both 18 at the time of the incident, which is still within the psychological time frame when kids' brains are not mature enough to think out the consequences of their actions.
This case has been rehashed too many times and that road is too tiring for me to trudge again. But sleep well NJ. Hell of a job.
2. Reading Joseph Ellis, Washington. I do abhor chatty secondary source history and I mistakenly put Ellis in that group of popular history writers. I was wrong. If Ellis tells you that Washington is looking out at a dismal, gray day, he'll quote from Washington's diary as his source. I'm early in the book, just past the part where Washington as a surveyor of the Ohio lands meets a tribal chief and both men know he (Washington) is there as the first step of the English take-over of tribal lands.
3. Saw most of, excepting the first 5 minutes, Twin Sisters. It's a foreign movie about separated twin girls before, during and after WWII in Europe. It touches on the Nazi final solution of the Jews but that is more of a catalyst for the turn of events between the sisters. It's basically about the travails of life: familial love, separations, misunderstandings, hatreds, wasted time and finally reconciliation. All of which can happen in lifetimes whether or not the world is engulfed in war. As it is often with foreign films, this is a "small" movie with horrors happening offstage but it's a movie for thinking about human existence where the 2 hour length goes rapidly by.
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