Posted by Sigismund on July 1, 2009, at 0:27:32
In reply to Re: my anxiety level is high today..... » Sigismund, posted by obsidian on June 30, 2009, at 22:26:46
>Are you well taken care of by yourself and/or others?
Well, Sid, I'm reading Crime and Punishment when I can concentrate and otherwise fantasising about disguising myself as some other kind of mammal and having myself taken to the vet to be put down. The book has the feeling of end times about it, as of course in a different way does The Lord of the Rings.
(I went to a boarding school which I loathed and in 1966 I read TLOTR from cover to cover 3 times to screen the school out. We had a wonderful teacher there. He'd been in the war and never got over the fact that he liked killing people more than he thought was right. He introduced me to the book. He'd done an MA in philosophy on Kant. He was unhappy enough to be a great English teacher and taught us King Lear very well.)
The problem for me with the movies of TLOTR was I didn't get the sense of a complete alternative world with its own history, mythology and language. The other thing I missed was the sense of peril which is conveyed in the book by speech (often at length, as at The Council of Elrond). I must have liked it because it chimed with some atavistic memory of my parents talking about the war. Certainly Gandalf could speak like Churchill, or rather vice versa as when Churchill said to his driver on being congratulated on becoming PM something like 'Thank you. I hope it is not too late, but I am very much afraid that it is.'The mercury presumably either came from dental amalgams (now out, and done safely) or as likely from eating fish all the time. Since we here must have some of the most unpolluted seas on the planet, this is not very encouraging for the future if so.
You know there was a post on the med board about glaucoma and meds (I don't remember which ones). That is probably something different?
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