Musings on Star Wars

I want a dirty Anniken poncho.

I showed my daughter the original Star Wars: A New Hope. She asked why the guys got married at the end. They were getting medals for saving the rebel cause.

In the second one I tried to video tape her finding out Darth Vader is Luke's father. She wasn't having it, and I think I distracted her because she wasn't even following it close enough to register shock. I showed her videos of kids being shocked, but she wasn't interested. In the 3rd one she walked away, abandoned the ending of the trilogy at the Ewok party. Maybe she was too young. I couldn't even get her to watch prequel trilogy.

Rewatching the Star Wars, I realized I don't think I saw the middle three movies when they came out, only later with my sons.

In Community, Abed makes fun of the midi-chlorians, but I just heard for the seemingly the first time that they are a symbiotic species. That makes it much more interesting.

Anniken blows up the power supply to take down the enemy in The Phantom Menace. It is what will happen to him later on when he is Darth Vader.

Jar Jar Binks is annoying, but I wonder it's not annoying that he's so stupid and clumsy. It's that the acting of him being clumsy isn't good. He's supposed to be the fortunate fool.

The constant "pew pew" makes the noise of guns annoying. But the sound track is amazing. My sons went to a live concert of the music of star wars.

I didn't notice but on Naboo there's a buried Buddha statue, like the Buddha was all over the universe and was ancient already in a long long time ago galaxy far far away. In Wookieepidia they call them the elders.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

movie versus book

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Introduction

Robert B. Palmer's introduction to his translation of Walter F. Otto's Dionysus: Myth and Cult (p. ix-xi) Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Dead Pan W H E N Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu {Mor. 419 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking): As for death among such beings [i.e., deities], I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. The father of...

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