|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
In article om, Ozark
Bicycle wrote: On May 2, 2:13 am, (Tom Keats) wrote: In article .com, " writes: obree obree? now where have i herd this name? Obree One Kenobee. It's a farce, Luke. Who is my father? Luke |
Ads |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
In article ,
John Everett wrote: On 1 May 2007 17:47:14 -0700, Prisoner at War wrote: Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did have one in real life. Lately you can't tap in to cycling.tv without having this trailer shoved down your throat. :-( So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour traffic). Someting small enough to fit into a messenger bag instead of the trunk of a '64 Malibu? ;-) You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day--nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. -- Michael Press |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:50:59 GMT, "nash"
wrote: Sam Clemens rocks Dear Nash, Bierce knew Twain as a reporter on the Alta newspaper in California before Twain left for Hawaii and then went to the East Coast, wrote "The Innocents Abroad" about his voyage to the Holy Land, became a famous lecturer, and married the daughter of a wealthy citizen of Buffalo, New York. Here are three comments from Bierce in 1870 concerning his friend Twain, whose success Bierce envied, whose laziness as a reporter Bierce deplored, whose drinking Bierce often outdid, and whose happy marriage and inheritance Bierce could only dream of. The ghoulish chaffing was a hallmark of California journalism. "Mark Twain, who, whenever he has been long enough sober to permit an estimate, has been uniformly found to bear a spotless character, has got married. It was not the act of a desperate man--it was not committed while laboring under temporary insanity; his insanity is not of that type, nor does he ever labor--it was the cool, methodical, cumulative culmination of human nature, working in the breast of an orphan hankering for some one with a fortune to love--some one with a bank account to caress. For years he has felt this matrimony coming on. Ever since he left California there has been an undertone of despair running through all his letters like the subdued wail of a pig beneath a washtub. He felt that he was going, that no earthly power could save him, but as a concession to his weeping publishers he tried a change of climage by putting on a linen coat and writing letters from the West Indies. Then he tried rhubarb, and during his latter months was almost constantly under the influence of this powerful drug. But rhubarb, while it may give a fitful glitter to the eye and a decitful ruddiness to the gills, cannot long delay the pangs of approaching marriage. Rhubarb was not what Mark wanted. Well, that genial spirit has passed away; that long, bright smile will no more greet the early bar-keeper, nor the old familiar "chalk it down" delight his ear. Poor Mark! he was a good scheme, but he couldn't be made to work." --News Letter, Feb. 19 1870 "It is announced that Mark Twain, being above want, will lecutre no more. We didn't think that of Mark; we supposed that after marrying a rich girl he would have decency enough to make a show of working for a year or two anyhow. But it seems that his native laziness has wrecked his finer feeling, and he has abandoned himself to his natural vice with the stolid indifference of a pig at his ablutions. We have our own private opinion of a man who will do this kind of thing; we regard him as an abandoned wretch. We should like to be abandoned in that way." --News Letter, June 18, 1870 "Mark Twain's father-in-law is dead, and has left that youth's wife a quarter of a million dollars. At the time of Mark's marriage, a few months since, we expressed some doubt as to the propriety of the transaction. That doubt has been removed by death." --News Letter, Aug. 27, 1870 Eight years later, Bierce commented in another California newspaper about Twain's literary faux pas, a speech at a banquet honoring Longfellow, Emerson, and Whittier, in which Twain claimed to have met a California miner who wanted nothing to do with literary giants like Twain because he'd just hosted a rowdy card game for three quote-spouting drunks who claimed to be the trio of great poets: "Mark Twain's Boston speech, in which the great humorist's coltish imagination represented Longfellow, Emerson, and Whittier engaged at a game of cards in the cabin of a California miner, is said to have so wrought upong the feelings of 'the best literary' society' in that city that the daring joker is in danger of lynching. I hope they won't lynch him; it would be irregular and illegal, however roughly just and publicly beneficial. Besides, it would rob many a worthy sheriff of an honorable ambition by dispeliing the most bright and beautiful hope of his life." --Argonaut, Jan. 5, 1878 Note that Bierce calls Twain a great humorist. Here's the Twain speech that outraged some silly literary folk: http://www.twainquotes.com/18771220.html Cheers, Carl Fogel |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
In article ,
wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2007 20:50:59 GMT, "nash" wrote: Sam Clemens rocks Dear Nash, Bierce knew Twain as a reporter on the Alta newspaper in California before Twain left for Hawaii and then went to the East Coast, wrote "The Innocents Abroad" about his voyage to the Holy Land, became a famous lecturer, and married the daughter of a wealthy citizen of Buffalo, New York. Here are three comments from Bierce in 1870 concerning his friend Twain, whose success Bierce envied, whose laziness as a reporter Bierce deplored, whose drinking Bierce often outdid, and whose happy marriage and inheritance Bierce could only dream of. Yes, but did Mr. Bierce like Mr. Twain? -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos |
#25
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
what does bierce and twain to do with obree?
what does bierce and twain to do with obree? what does bierce and twain to do with obree? manic obsessions? twain lost the money on a bad bet backing a printing machine. as for: "whose success Bierce envied, whose laziness as a reporter Bierce deplored, whose drinking Bierce often outdid, and whose happy marriage and inheritance Bierce could only dream of." - C.Fogel Bierce's connection to our Civil War is more connection than Twain concieved. A longer Bierce short story is over the top. |
#27
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
wrote in message ... [...] Note that Bierce calls Twain a great humorist. Here's the Twain speech that outraged some silly literary folk: http://www.twainquotes.com/18771220.html Cheers, Carl Fogel Mark Twain along with Will Rogers are quintessential 19th century men. Neither would do well today. In fact, whenever I encounter either of them on the media (re-creations of their personalities) I am bored beyond belief. I have always hated their yokel type of humor. How Twain and Rogers ever made a living off it is one for the ages to ponder. Let the dead bury the dead and do not bother us any more with your Mark Twain crapola. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
#28
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
language, life, perceptions of life, writing of life connect within
the same generation, more or less as duh every one is more or less on the same wave length without trying, trying one's intelligence. leapfrogging generations quoting style meant as popular styles, not scientific or strict journalism to move away from 'objectivity' a bit, without excercising a template bridging the different life experience's probabbbly means you didn't get the point meant in 1875. if the film works to get you into obree's shoes then its a success. in 1875, every scratch in a horse drawn environment might bring death from infection... |
#29
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
"nash" wrote in message news:TQ6_h.155519$aG1.99968@pd7urf3no... Sam Clemens rocks Dude, he used the "N" word, and he wasn't rapp'n. -- Jay "PC" Beattie. |
#30
|
|||
|
|||
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??
"Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:huCdndkaXPROsKTbnZ2dnUVZ_r2onZ2d@prairiewave. com... wrote in message ... [...] Note that Bierce calls Twain a great humorist. Here's the Twain speech that outraged some silly literary folk: http://www.twainquotes.com/18771220.html Cheers, Carl Fogel Mark Twain along with Will Rogers are quintessential 19th century men. Neither would do well today. In fact, whenever I encounter either of them on the media (re-creations of their personalities) I am bored beyond belief. I have always hated their yokel type of humor. How Twain and Rogers ever made a living off it is one for the ages to ponder. Let the dead bury the dead and do not bother us any more with your Mark Twain crapola. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota I thought you were dead and buried Dolan lol go away |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"?? | Prisoner at War | General | 51 | May 4th 07 09:50 PM |
So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"?? | Prisoner at War | Techniques | 63 | May 4th 07 09:50 PM |
The Flying Scotsman | Don Whybrow | UK | 1 | October 1st 06 04:18 PM |
Flying Scotsman | davek | UK | 7 | July 14th 06 02:32 AM |
First ride, gonna start "training" | [email protected] | Techniques | 20 | April 18th 06 07:06 PM |