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I thought, and still do, that Paris Hilton is a hotel in France. Whenever I hear the term 'Paris Hilton' in speech or in written media I cannot understand how the information relates to a French establishment for tourists.
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I don't know why but I keep expecting quartertone to post something on this thread.
That does strike me in its own way as an admission of ignorance, George, but nothing to cringe about. I haven't heard Fidelio either. And I also don't know where practically anywhere I haven't been is on the map. On the other hand what really makes me cringe is that I've read sod-all of anything. Far too much ignorance there to fix up this lifetime. Still stuck 5/6 of the way through In Search of Lost Time, 1/2 way through Don Quixote. Never seen Hamlet live or for that matter any Shakespeare except MND and A&C. And I certainly haven't read any of the Harry P BZZZT...ow! |
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I've never read On The Road. I can't relate to the supposed importance of Louis Armstrong in the development of jazz.
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I can't get jazz at all I'm afraid. I try from time to time but so far no luck. Except with a few people but they then provoke a nose-turning-up reaction from REAL jazzers if I mention them so I've stopped mentioning them.
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I did actually plough through what seemed like several thousand pages (but probably only a few dozen) of the first Harry Potter book before it defeated me. Ollie, if you're set on reading your way through the literary canon in order of size, maybe it would be more fulfilling to start at the other end... I can't relate to the supposed importance of Louis Armstrong in the development of jazz.
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How about: I have very little idea what the plot of Hamlet consists of (although I have seen it at least once). I don't blame you. Nothing happens. Hamlet dithers for four hours, everybody ends up dead, and Fortinbras turns up to find the stage littered with bodies  Or as somebody or other put it very succinctly: "A ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends up mincemeat" I know where the counties in England where I have lived, are. But hopelessly vague about most of the others. I didn't figure out how to read a Tube map until I was into my thirties. Well, Twenty-nine for the second time. I can find California, Texas, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on a blank map of the USA fairly accurately, but any of the other 48(?) states are hopelessly lost.  I have absolutely no idea what cricket is all about quick edit: I forgot that I know where Florida is!  |
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I can't work out who quartertone is. Should I be cringeing?
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I can find California, Texas, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on a blank map of the USA fairly accurately, but any of the other 48(?) states are hopelessly lost.
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« Reply #38 on: 15:52:24, 13-09-2007 » |
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Did I get something wrong? Somebody please tell me that Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are not in Canada!
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With Saudi Arabia straight ahead. The big steak-shaped one on the water.
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I too have never heard Fidelio or read any of the Harry Potter books (I'm not sure why these two go hand in hand). Like George (and I'm both surprised and delighted to discover I'm not alone in this) I always think 'dilate' means the opposite of what it really means before I re-think and remember the correct meaning. I also share George's instinct to interpret 'LSE' in any context including the financial pages as referring to the London School of Economics, but I've always assumed (perhaps wrongly) that everyone is subject to that particular confusion. Also like George I have a collection of words which I have to look up in the dictionary every single time I come across them, but unlike George I can't remember what they are. I've just been out for lunch, and I'm afraid the New York thing got worse, in that I've now realised that the lake in which the Statue of Liberty stands and the wide river with Manhattan Island in the middle of it must be constructs my imagination has produced over the years in order to maintain its belief that New York was some 100 miles inland.  |
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But what about Lacan, Deleuze, Adorno, McClary, etc.? I'm not exactly unacquainted with the work of those people, though I hardly ever feel the need to refer to any of them, which I should perhaps be embarrassed about. However, I can't remember ever hearing all of the Enigma VariationsThat's a puzzle... Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy's, Sibelius's, Schönberg's, Fauré's or any combination of the four?... Pictures at an Exhibition (any version)
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« Reply #42 on: 16:04:30, 13-09-2007 » |
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To all those of you who have never heard Fidelio:
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I can find California, Texas, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on a blank map of the USA fairly accurately, but any of the other 48(?) states are hopelessly lost.
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You want to try the math on that one again, Kb?
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