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« Reply #5475 on: 10:40:57, 15-11-2008 » |
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I've only been to Venice in January, and I thought it was wonderful, though presumably if it rained it wouldn't be so good. The great bonus is that it isn't crowded - at least, not as crowded as in the summer. The only disadvantage could be that some famous buildings might be closed or being renovated. That would be worth checking. After all, you don't go to Venice for the weather.
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« Reply #5476 on: 12:56:18, 15-11-2008 » |
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Ditto. Venice is wonderful at any time of the year but check on what you wish to particularly see to make sure it will be available to you. It's a wonderful place. Some of the alleyways are very spooky especially if you've read Daphne du Maurier. Such an amazing atmosphere.
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« Reply #5477 on: 13:24:36, 15-11-2008 » |
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It's one of the places I've always dreamed of visiting. Friends tell me the prices tend to be inflated, but perhaps it will be less avaricious in the off-season.
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« Reply #5478 on: 14:21:15, 15-11-2008 » |
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I remember a phrase from my BBC Italian course, regarding the Ventetians, which went IIRC
Quando vedono un turisto, augmenano il conte.
When they see a tourist, they put up the prices.
I can remember visiting Venice and thinking what a pity all these Ventians painters never saw mountains. Then walking along by the Giudecca, the haze lifted and I saw the Dolomites on the horizon.
And having driven through Titian's home town of Pieve di Cadore, I wonder if he ever saw a flat surface in his childhood.
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #5479 on: 18:06:45, 15-11-2008 » |
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Some of the alleyways are very spooky especially if you've read Daphne du Maurier ... or if you've seen Nicolas Roeg's truly terrifying film of Don't Look Now.  Perhaps one of the greatest from that period in the early 70s when everyone was making films about seeing (or mis-perceiving) the extraordinary in the everyday (Coppola's The Conversation, Arthur Penn's Night Moves, maybe Polanski's Chinatown too ...). |
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Morticia
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« Reply #5480 on: 18:37:41, 15-11-2008 » |
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Some of the alleyways are very spooky especially if you've read Daphne du Maurier ... or if you've seen Nicolas Roeg's truly terrifying film of Don't Look Now. IIRC tinners, the film was based on a short story by the same D du M. She never really got the credit she deserved IMHO, although she could write a rattling good, and frequently unnerving, tale. She was rather fascinated by how people behave when 'normality' becomes 'subverted'. Her writing could be quite dark and twisted. Hitchcock's The Birds and Rebecca were based on two of her short stories. |
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« Reply #5481 on: 18:44:15, 15-11-2008 » |
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Hitchcock's The Birds and Rebecca were based on two of her short stories.
Eek. You know perfectly well that Rebecca (last night I dreamt I was at Mandalay) was a full length novel. Indeed on the blurb of my mum's Penguin it said there were three books every woman should read, Rebecca, Gone with the Wind and Jane Eyre.I took Jamaica Inn, her first success, on holiday a couple of years ago, and gosh was it corny beyond parody. There'll be comp'ny at Jamaica Inn tonight, oo ah. (The inn is a front for wreckers. Why a base for wreckers should be as far from the sea as you can get in Cornwall, I do not know.) |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #5482 on: 18:47:56, 15-11-2008 » |
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Some of the alleyways are very spooky especially if you've read Daphne du Maurier ... or if you've seen Nicolas Roeg's truly terrifying film of Don't Look Now. IIRC tinners, the film was based on a short story by the same D du M. That's what I was trying to imply (I thought there might be people who knew her work via the film, but didn't know it was her work they knew ...). Sorry if it wasn't clear!  |
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I didn't know about The Birds (being du Maurier, I mean). Interesting, especially since Rebecca, although directed by Hitchcock, was a commercial project he did for David O. Selznick and in his interviews with Francois Truffaut he more or less disavowed directorial intent for it, IIRC.
Of course her reputation probably wasn't helped by comments about books that every woman should read ...
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« Reply #5484 on: 18:57:56, 15-11-2008 » |
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Hitchcock's The Birds and Rebecca were based on two of her short stories.
Eek. You know perfectly well that Rebecca (last night I dreamt I was at Mandalay) was a full length novel. GAH! Of course I do, DB  My mind was getting tangled up thinking there |
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« Reply #5485 on: 19:59:54, 15-11-2008 » |
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Someone else is tangled up in their geography, Mort.  The English location for 'Rebecca' is Manderley. The road to Mandalay is much further east!  |
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« Reply #5486 on: 20:38:42, 15-11-2008 » |
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Right. Element 3 of my PGCTLHE is now complete. I don't think they'll be expecting the full 42 pages that I'll be submitting but that's how long it is.
Time for some food and then I'll tackle Element 2 (which is twice as dull and is about surface and deep learning - I'm afraid that it's the sort of educational theory that leaves me yawning.
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« Reply #5488 on: 21:29:38, 15-11-2008 » |
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Haha ... I did even better, I found the whole film in 13 instalments - starts here http://youtube.com/watch?v=fkraCshPB4w&feature=related ...  And guess what I spent half an hour doing before reminding myself that I actually have a piece of work to finish (well, to start and finish   )? |
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