Yes, I'm against that sort of thing. I've been expecting feminists to object to 'Carmen ' and 'Madame Butterfly' because of who gets stabbed. Not 'Tosca', though, because of who gets stabbed there. It's probably praised for 'empowerment'.
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Originally posted by JasonPalmer View PostFound an interesting program about psychosis, says cannabis smoking can be a factor, no wonder its illegal then.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00052mn
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Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
they did not mention that a factor though he first got ill when taking lots of pot and booze, best try be healthy eh
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Last edited by JasonPalmer; 20-10-23, 15:37.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...
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I expect Emma Bovary could have done with a "mind shop". Just been watching the live stream of Bovary
Staatsballett Berlin
The world premiere of Christian Spuck's take on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. On demand until Wednesday 31 January 2024 22:59. www.arte.tv. Very imaginative use of music by various composers, incl. Saint-Saens, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Part.My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
Amazing how literary detectives (cf Morse) thrive on a concoction of beverages which would, for most ordinary folks, sozzle the brain to the extent they would be unable to unravel a bootlace let alone a plot of such complexity!
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Originally posted by Pianorak View PostI expect Emma Bovary could have done with a "mind shop". Just been watching the live stream of Bovary
Staatsballett Berlin
The world premiere of Christian Spuck's take on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. On demand until Wednesday 31 January 2024 22:59. www.arte.tv. Very imaginative use of music by various composers, incl. Saint-Saens, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Part.
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Anyone watching Uncanny on BBC Friday evenings? Viewers are invited to give their reaction -believer or sceptic to the experiences described as well as describing anything they have experienced. It seems unlikely that anyone sceptical about ghosts, poltergeists etc will have their minds changed by the accounts given on the programme but they may find the explanations given by the resident sceptical Psychologist convincing although he also seems to be stretching it a bit sometimes.
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I haven't seen it mentioned here, so I thought I'd put in a word for the three-part documentary 'The Irish Civil War' on PBS America. As far as I could tell it is scrupulously impartial.
One thing they emphasise is the importace of seeing the event in context with other civil wars and revolutions taking place before and around the same time in Russia, Finland, China, etc. Showing at the same time as the wars in Ukraine and Israel, it evokes the (perhaps naive) dismay as to why people cannot simply sit down and live in peace next to one another, accepting their differences rather than resorting to violence.
...'I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,'
Said one, 'than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!'
And many a skeleton shook his head.
'Instead of preaching forty year.'
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
'I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.'
Thomas Hardy, April 1914.
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