There’s only so much interesting things you can manage to do after a certain age, and most of them are not anything hugely exciting anyway, but some grandparents are in demand amongst their family and friends, while others cant get their phone calla picked up. So, what do they do differently?
or do they actually feel like they create the music? Prompting the machine sounds so boring to me. I know next to nothing about song writing but as an artist working in a different filed, I wouldn’t want to give away the joy of actively creating something. Thats the whole point! Some people argue that A I is the same as any new medium but it isn’t - you literally give away the thing that makes you happy, the act of creating. It’s like asking someone else to eat your cake for you and then describe what it feels like.
Or is it completely different when it comes to writing music? thanks!
I could never understand why the character of Tom ended up with one of the longest and most important storylines. Especially, if you consider how many really great characters seemingly disappeared for no good reason (Charles Blake?) at all.
Well! I just scrolled though the recent “Can you explain this” post on Mary and her suitors.
So it seems that Tom was not cuter or more interesting than anyone else, nor was he much needed for the audience to understand the world of the aristos.
It‘s just because Leech was willing to stay on with the show for years and didn’t chomp at the bit looking to “do other things.”
I just watched a wonderful 1988 BBC clip called Separate Tables about a group of retirees who spend the winter of their life at the Burlington hotel in Eastbourne, UK. The old world manners, the unhurried pace of living and an incredible charm exuded by some of the residents were so wonderfully comforting to watch. Mrs. Sybil Bloom in particular was a terrific lady!
Has anyone watched it? Have you had a chance to see a bit of that world when you were younger? Or perhaps you might have a lovely, charming grandma? Mine passed away when I was too little and I really missed out on that special connection.
(available on YouTube on BBC archive)https://youtu.be/zgpK5YxqmDo?si=K6x4QYMAkmNUkMgB
Does anyone feel like there is a peculiar parallel between the characters of Lucy Steele and Charlotte Lucas?
I‘ve finished “P&P” a little while ago and am about to start “S&S.” I’ve seen all of the film and TV adaptations, so obviously I know what happens but it is my first time reading the original source which I’m very excited about. Every adaptation offers a different take on her characters but only Jane Austen’s novels of course, contain the original, “authentic” version.
After I was done reading P&P I began to wonder if there might be some parallels b/w the characters of Charlotte and Lucy, possibly albeit unwittingly, meant by Austen?
For example, both come from genteel but not very wealthy families and have to rely on their own wits to make a life for themselves. Both are very pragmatic and clear eyed. Both use whatever little social cachet they have to secure a comfortable future. Both had to become a smooth operator bc neither has a momager Bennet to steer her towards a nice option.
Lucy is universally hated and seen as a scheming character. Charlotte is usually praised for being realistic and pragmatic. I won’t go so far as to say that Lucy and Charlotte are similar, but what strikes me is that they are both women with severely limited resources who must game the patriarchal system as best as they can. Ultimately each marries a man she doesn’t love. Marrying for love is of course, reserved for the heroine which in turn makes Lucy and Charlotte to be more similar in their “realness.” They go about it in a very different way but I feel there is a strangely unsettling parallel here.
And now, I’m going to go read the original source, S&S to see if I still feel this way, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on this?
I’ve been reading (as well as speaking, of course) in English for over two decades, but I’m still so MUCH slower than I am in my native language, that I’m starting to wonder if it’s even possible to ever get better.
The thing is I prefer good quality books (literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, biographies, essays, classics) which of course take a lot more effort than some fun beach read that you could fly through in a day but I’m just not interested in it. I’ve been focusing on reading exclusively in English for years and yet, if I pick up a Russian classic in Russian, not only do I properly enjoy it, I also finish it fairly fast, AND understand and remember everything after.
I’m thinking, more practice will probably be the best possible advice, but perhaps some of you have improved your reading skills in a NON-NATIVE language and care to share some tips?