Words and Mirrors
Just watched 'The Lady From Shanghai', it was so good! O.k., so I missed the beginning, but I saw the mirror scene. I feel that I've seen it many times before, possibly in 'Batman', so I can see that this movie started something. Anyway, classic noir, kept you guessing, and full of emotion, sexual tension, sharks. The shark frenzy was a pretty chilling image really. Must watch the beginning some day. With a tagline like: "I told you... you know nothing about wickedness", how can you lose?
Talking about wickedness, I was reading Nietzche the other day (I needed a segue) for my English Theory and Criticism tutorial. It was an interesting tutorial, talking about how words shape our perception of the world. Nietzche seems to think that all we actually study are words and perception. And it was great, because it seemed to relate to my archaeology class today. My archaeology lecturer was talking about studying 'non-verbal meanings', but using words to do so. I thought that technically this would make the meanings verbal. This was clearly not what he meant, but I doubt the literary theorists would appreciate the terminology, and his assumption that language could be used objectively. meh, what do literary theorists know?
Anyway, I was getting a bit carried away there, but I was wondering, why does 'verbal' mean 'to do with words' when 'verb' means a doing word? Shouldn't 'verbal' be 'logical' or something? Well, I thought it was kind of interesting. I am a bit of a nerd, huh? I'll go back to watching t.v.
At the moment "Sister Act 2" is on, which is a bit of a step down in cinematic quality from 'The Lady of Shanghai'. Although the singing is pretty good. Also I have seen it several times. Can't remember why. I guess there are worse movies out there. Definitely are better.
Oh, Kathryn, I really doubt I'll make it to Strathfield station by 9:30- 10:00 tomorrow. Want sleep. Otherwise the bags under my eyes will take over my face, and no amount of dresses will redeem me. On that note, adieu, goodnight..
Talking about wickedness, I was reading Nietzche the other day (I needed a segue) for my English Theory and Criticism tutorial. It was an interesting tutorial, talking about how words shape our perception of the world. Nietzche seems to think that all we actually study are words and perception. And it was great, because it seemed to relate to my archaeology class today. My archaeology lecturer was talking about studying 'non-verbal meanings', but using words to do so. I thought that technically this would make the meanings verbal. This was clearly not what he meant, but I doubt the literary theorists would appreciate the terminology, and his assumption that language could be used objectively. meh, what do literary theorists know?
Anyway, I was getting a bit carried away there, but I was wondering, why does 'verbal' mean 'to do with words' when 'verb' means a doing word? Shouldn't 'verbal' be 'logical' or something? Well, I thought it was kind of interesting. I am a bit of a nerd, huh? I'll go back to watching t.v.
At the moment "Sister Act 2" is on, which is a bit of a step down in cinematic quality from 'The Lady of Shanghai'. Although the singing is pretty good. Also I have seen it several times. Can't remember why. I guess there are worse movies out there. Definitely are better.
Oh, Kathryn, I really doubt I'll make it to Strathfield station by 9:30- 10:00 tomorrow. Want sleep. Otherwise the bags under my eyes will take over my face, and no amount of dresses will redeem me. On that note, adieu, goodnight..
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