tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post366647769079705949..comments2023-09-20T14:18:32.900+02:00Comments on Obscene Desserts: How the Mind Works (Twisted Tenacious Pinball Longstocking edition)JCWoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-65664302405337150642008-02-25T09:59:00.000+01:002008-02-25T09:59:00.000+01:00kb player,Oh dear, what a traumatic experience! So...kb player,<BR/><BR/>Oh dear, what a traumatic experience! Sounds like you've read the third of the books, which takes place on an exotic island. That one was never my favourite either. <BR/><BR/>But otherwise your reading experience seems to affirm the educational value of the Pippi-books. "Bullies" and "liars", are common enough and all children ought to learn at an early age that it's a fine skill indeed to dish out "wrong information" in a "patronising" way. It certainly describes the conditions of my professional Absurdistan and I wish I'd heeded the example of Pippi more.<BR/><BR/>Geoff,<BR/><BR/>I guess we will have to find a DVD of _Tommy_ soon. It'll contrast nicely with _Cranford_ (the recent BBC heritage triumph) which we watched over the weekend. Lots of weeping ....https://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/14637377045831848328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-20001904472140717712008-02-24T22:58:00.000+01:002008-02-24T22:58:00.000+01:00I've just dug out the DVD of Tommy and had another...I've just dug out the DVD of Tommy and had another wallow in it - champagne, baked beans, chocolate and all. Thoroughly enjoyed it. As I say,if you haven't seen it, you really owe it to yourselves to rectify the situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-87845217031677915142008-02-24T21:49:00.000+01:002008-02-24T21:49:00.000+01:00I've never read the Pippi books myself...I think i...I've never read the Pippi books myself...I think it was always the hair that frightened me. <BR/><BR/>I don't know of a separate term for the kind of emotional construct you describe. It's even more complicated in my case, since -- while I love the fact that all the right people are annoyed by Sir Salman's success -- I'm not really a fan of his writing. (Though he interviews well, I must say.) <BR/><BR/>Moreover...four divorces (and a reiteration of the probably ineradicable but somehow still tiresome cliché of the May-December relationship...he was pretty close to Woody Allen territory on the last one) are hardly something to take joy in, are they?<BR/><BR/>And, just to make clear: <BR/><BR/>Theocratic head-banging = bad. <BR/>Rock'n'roll head-banging = good.JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-78559526645181112902008-02-24T20:35:00.000+01:002008-02-24T20:35:00.000+01:00When I was a kid I read a Pippi Longstocking book ...When I was a kid I read a Pippi Longstocking book and detested it. Pippi wasa bully and a liar who in that particular adventure was giving grass-skirted savages totally wrong information about arithmetic. What a nasty, boastful, patronising girl, I thought.<BR/><BR/>OT the word "Schadenfreude" - meaning pleasure in another misfortunes - is there a further refinement of it when you take pleasure in someone's deserved good fortune because you know it will annoy someone else. Eg I love to see Salman Rushdie celebrated, rich and with gorgeous wives because I think it must really annoy the theocratic head-bangers who tried to have him killed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-31808579978890198632008-02-24T15:36:00.000+01:002008-02-24T15:36:00.000+01:00I have to say that I much preferred the Kickapoo v...I have to say that I much preferred the Kickapoo video over that of Twisted sister. The former reminded me of the ecstasy of Ken Russell's visuals in "Tommy" - which, if you haven't seen, you should...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-30340984461999677362008-02-23T20:11:00.000+01:002008-02-23T20:11:00.000+01:00If you are doing research/thesis on Graham Greene ...If you are doing research/thesis on Graham Greene you should join The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust (Berkhamsted). See www.grahamgreenebt.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com