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As a kind of irrelevant leitmotif, we get bucketfuls of nature-fractal imagery—raging seas, hot lava, writhing clouds—which I take to represent the seven days of Creation, with highly-strung choirs to match. Any moment now, I thought, we'll reach Satan's rebellion from God. That's possibly because I've been trying unsuccessfully to read Paradise Lost, after a visit on March 1st to Milton's Cottage, when I allowed myself to be seduced into the idea by Eddie the Curator, a man of superlative charm, erudition and marketing skills. The Americans love Milton far more than we (English) do, he said. They come over in droves. I think the English are right. Let us honour Milton, but stay short of reading Paradise Lost, just as we may acknowledge the critical acclaim given to director Terrence Malick, short of actually spending time watching his film.
"Ultimately annoying," says Paula. Let me clarify and say it was annoying all the way through, but most of all it was retrospectively annoying. What was all that pain for? I had planned to write a post entitled "Why Paradise Lost?" but ended up saying to myself "Why write a post about it?" So I bury those plans in this one, and cover the two overblown visions in one review.
As other critics have noted there isn't a narrative, exactly. It's more of a tableau in its creator's head, made into celluloid. There is a father, a mother and three boys. The eldest is Jack, the most beloved of the three angels in heaven, and the one who will rebel against the boss of a suffocatingly-close nuclear family in the nineteen-fifties: Brad Pitt as the All-Father. In his emphasis on high achievement, I couldn't help but think of the Kennedys. To me, his character had a look of the late President and like him had been in the Navy during the war, not to mention the good old Irish name—O'Brien. (Well, begorrah! It's St Patrick's Day as I write.) But never mind that. As soon as I saw the way he treated his sons, especially the eldest, I said to myself "A righteous man—they're the worst." He had a wonderful look of smug religiosity, which as the film went on made me wish that Jack would shoot him in the head. I wasn't far off there. In one scene, Father's lying under his car doing some repairs, while it's precariously supported by a jack attached to the rear bumper. The boy Jack saw the possibilities two seconds after I did, saw how easily the support could be kicked away. Both of us, sadly, had been too high-mindedly brought up to give it more serious consideration.
What interested me in the first place was probably the same thing which interested Paula: an alleged dichotomy between Nature and Grace, as in the following voice-overs from the mother:
"The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow."
"The nuns taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end."
"Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries."
"Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things."
Like all the other voice-overs, like most of the scenes, they are inconsequential pieces of confetti tossed in the air as generalised religious sentiment: a tossed grenade of indiscriminate guilt-laying. I shall resist the temptation to discuss Nature and Grace here & merely endorse Paula's own words on the topic. The film doesn't cover it anyway, being engrossed in an all-embracing emotional blackmail which only violence could stem. Jack wants to kill his father—psychoanalytically one supposes—but can't. So the boy grows up and turns into Sean Penn, a bewildered neurotic given to wandering in metaphorical deserts—or perhaps real ones, who knows.
Here I return to the reviewer Kevin A Ranson, whose advice ("don't watch it") I had not received in time. He concludes that it is not the worst film of all time but his least recommended, a view which he explains thus: ". . .this film was made by one person specifically for one person and can only be the product of much soul-searching and intense introspection. It should be viewed by that one person and only by that person, sitting alone in the middle of an empty theater like a widower watching old home movies and reminiscing of days gone by." I conclude that it's a cinematic autobiography of which the author/director should be justly proud, so long as he doesn't foist it on us. For the emotional blackmail foisted on Jack by his father (and more subtly by the mother) is now foisted on the viewer, suggesting that the father's dream has come true: he has sowed a seed of righteousness in his son the film director, who has brought forth an hundredfold, to preach to us from an Hollywood mountaintop.
"Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!" said Wordsworth. Indeed. The author of Paradise Lost and the author of The Tree of Life could meet, like Joseph when he went up to meet Israel his father: "and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while"; for they have a lot in common.
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- Bryan M. White said...
So you're saying I shouldn't see it? ;D
I'm a little leary of the grim reaper (not the incarceration of death, but rather the movie reviewer <--there's some "Pure Vincent" for you.) He called The Thin Read Line, a movie I'm rather fond of (and which was also made by Malick), "...One of the most meaningless, wasteful films I've ever reviewed.."
However, I trust your judgment quite a bit more than I trust the Reaper's. Still, I might have to throw caution to the wind and watch the movie anyway, against both of your advices[?] (at the reasonable price of a one dollar DVD rental, of course. I'm not a complete madman.) I think you've perked my curiosity despite yourself.
P.S.: I also bought a copy of Paradise Lost with the best of intentions, but I haven't ever gotten around to reading it either. - March 17, 2012 1:19 pm
- Bryan M. White said...
That should be The Thin RED Line, not The Thin READ Line which is probably about eye-strain and miniature font sizes. (I'll spare you the indignity of crediting your spirit with that joke.)
- March 17, 2012 1:23 pm
- Vincent said...
Good - that you'll probably watch it anyhow. It will be an experience unlike any other, I promise. Though I have not seen the thin red line.
- March 17, 2012 1:27 pm
- Davoh said...
Parables have been around since Australopithecus first discovered that there were more grunts to explain why this "hunt" went that way and not this.
Long story, i guess. - March 18, 2012 4:20 am
- Paula said...
Huzzah, Vincent. You've fleshed out the substance of the annoyance beautifully. The Penn-in-the-desert and the "afterlife's-a-beach" scenes (fade to primordial fire) were definitely cringeworthy.
- March 18, 2012 11:18 pm
- darev2005 said...
The problem with some artists is that they think it's a natural law that we should all share and love their art the way they do.
Unfortunately, this is not always so.
I've read Milton and found him to be extremely boring. "Paradise Lost" could have stayed that way and I would have been happy. - March 19, 2012 2:07 pm
- susan said...
I've enjoyed a couple of Terrence Malick's films, particularly The New World and The Thin Red line but I didn't like this one either. I found his faux 2001 God images, his defiant randomness in shot selection and editing (wiping characters out of the movie), his Music Appreciation class classical music soundtrack, the very definition of shallow and pretentious. It was like watching a protracted Pepsi commercial leading up to the ending where the generations come together on the beach and you're waiting for them all to erupt in song and dance. I'm not even going to mention the dinosaurs (oops, sorry).
You've covered some of my main complaints very well. - March 20, 2012 2:58 am
- Bryan M. White said...
Good Lord, this movie sounds like an absolute disaster on an epic scale. Now I'm going to HAVE to watch it ;)
- March 20, 2012 7:14 am
- darev2005 said...
I think the most abominable movie I ever watched was "Battlefield Earth". I liked the book and have read it several times. But I was so mad when I saw that movie I couldn't hardly see straight. Wanted to drive to Hollywood and punch John Travolta in the face.
Was it worse than that? - March 20, 2012 5:09 pm
- Bryan M. White said...
You shouldn't drive when you can't see straight.
- March 20, 2012 8:15 pm
- John Myste said...
A very wise man once said: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
It seems odd, the whole concept of a mind being a place, in this case, a place for the mind, but it is largely true. Wretched men stand beside happy ones, sharing the same outward condition.
Another VERY wise man once said: Wagner's music is better than it sounds
This is how I see Paradise Lost, which I cannot read. Many classics are very good in lore and painful in experience.
The same wise man referenced above said something like "a classic is something everyone praises and does not read." I agree with this. I think classics are often worthy of praise and at once worthy to sit on the shelf, a literary rumor we have all heard and are glad to have encountered, but are also content to avoid as a personal acquaintance.
As you may remember, Mark Twain is my favorite writer. He wrote volumes and read volumes, but he did not read most classics. He famously reviewed Paradise Lost in a speech:
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic, just as Professor Winchester says, and it meets his definition of a classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
Once upon a time, I picked up Paradise Lost, excited to finally read it. I have never been more pleased than when I put it back on the shelf, unread. I purchased my copy from a library book fare. It was a bit tattered, probably checked out many times; probably never read.
I will not watch Tree of Life because I simply could not tolerate Paradise Lost. - March 21, 2012 3:53 am
- Vincent said...
All I know is, it wasn't John Milton who said Wagner's music is better than it sounds. I don't know why but I'm just sure of it, perhaps not his style.
John, you have just saved me so much effort! I had enjoyed Crime and Punishment, for example, so much that I set out to read the other books in the alleged trilogy, in the alleged right order. I foundered on The Idiot. Guiltily skipping it, I foundered on The Brothers Karamazov far earlier, admitting defeat on neither book, but convinced all the same that Dostoyevsky is one of my favourite writers, merely because my mind tells me so.
I foundered on Mark Twain too, but for different reasons, which we may have discussed a long time ago. I prefer him in quotes, like the one you have kindly reproduced above. - March 21, 2012 5:44 am
- Vincent said...
Not possessing Bryan's youthful enthusiasm, I don't now feel compelled to watch or even read Battlefield Earth. The title sounds too classic, and somehow satisfies my curiosity without further ado.
As for The Thin Red Line, I feel that it's once bitten twice shy, even though I should reciprocate Bryan's loyalty and trust his judgement, and Susan's too, rather than Grim D Reaper's. I regret to say I never noticed that any characters were wiped out of The Tree of Life, but I regretted the failure to wipe out the father by violent means.
I did enjoy Mamma Mia, though, where generations come together on the beach and everywhere else, and we are never far from song and dance. Now there is a movie that delivers, whose director did not lie awake at nights worrying whether his or her movie would be considered a little too outré and art-house. Which is something I wish Malick had done.
Talking of art-house, Paula, I'm planning a piece on Why Bodhidharma Left for the East; but I'm not sure if it will be any time soon. I'm about half-way through now, having started again at the beginning. I suspect it may supplant If.... as my all-time favourite, for similarly deeply personal reasons, so it will be a slow process to put written words around it.
Says Rev: "The problem with some artists is that they think it's a natural law that we should all share and love their art the way they do." Spot on. You can apply the same observation to reviewers. Just because I like a movie (or Homer's Odyssey, or the book of Gilgamesh) is not enough to sing its praise.
I've just mentioned two more classics. Ah, but translations are a special case. For example, as I have illustrated in a number of posts, I find The Myth of Sisyphus to be an unreadable classic, except in a certain translation, which remains unpublished till now. - March 21, 2012 6:08 am
- darev2005 said...
I have read through quite a few books that are considered "classics." And the majority of them have returned to the library or thrift store shelves soon after. I just think to myself "Well, I read it. No need to go through that again, thank goodness." I suspect that many of them are considered "classics" because at the time they were written there weren't many books of that length in existence. Just a guess.
I have met quite a few people who considered themselves to be Artists in one medium or another. Paint or film or clay or ink. They will proudly show me this Thing they have created and say "Look! Isn't it magnificent?" And more than once I have ended up with tooth marks in my lip or tongue to keep from blurting out "What are you, a freaking moron?"
Of course I often have the same problem when proud parents show me pictures of their children. **sigh** - March 21, 2012 4:22 pm
- John Myste said...
Yes, I remember you abandoning Mr. Twain, who tends to be negative, but crossed the line when it spoke of Brits or something to that effect. I don't remember the whole thing, but that is the gist of my failing memory.
- March 21, 2012 8:44 pm
- Bryan M. White said...
Ah, now see. I love Dostoevsky. Not just in principle, but in practice. I've read Crime & Punishment, The Brother Karamazov and The Possessed more times than I can remember (The Idiot was a bit of a slog though.) I'll admit that his work is a bit like black coffee though, an acquired taste. For me, there's just this turbulent energy in his stories that fascinates me, like a storm constantly brewing.
I read a lot of other classics as well (someone told me the other day that I read "old people" books.) I read them, not as some literary duty or because of their venerated status as "classics" on some stuffy professor reading list, but because I find them genuinely entertaining. For me, books like The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Great Expectations create spellbinding worlds that I can get completely lost in, more so than many contemporary book.
But that's just me. And so, I guess it comes down to personal taste. - March 21, 2012 9:09 pm
- John Myste said...
"Moths and all sorts of ugly creatures hover about the lighted candle. Can the candle help it?" -- or something like that.
I do see the charm in Dickens. I have a love / hate relationship with him. I have read several of his works, in part, and enjoyed part of them.
I loved the quaint story and characters of The Pickwick Papers, but it was so purple, I couldn't finish it (and I don't mind purple, but wow!).
I have always wanted to read The Brother Karamazov. Maybe I will one day, since everyone keeps talking about it.
I am trying to remember classics I actually finished. I am having trouble, but I do remember a few:
The Cat in the Hat
Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Foot Book
George the Gentle Giant
Downy Duck Can't Fly
There are some, yes. - March 21, 2012 9:38 pm
- John Myste said...
Though I criticize classics, I do love classic voices. Writers today are mostly commercial and do not appeal to me. There are exceptions, the most recent being The Serpent Box, a modern work of literary fiction.
I rarely enjoy commercial fiction, which is what most fiction is today.
However, the Iliad, a tale I love, Paradise Lost, another potentially, and Shakespeare, all go beyond the mere classic voice and into something else. - March 21, 2012 9:41 pm
- Bryan M. White said...
There used to be a theory floating about that The Cat in The Hat was the Devil, instigating the kids to mischief and trouble like the serpent in The Garden of Eden.
- March 21, 2012 10:57 pm
- darev2005 said...
That just shows how uptight those "fundies" can be. If anyone is enjoying anything the church didn't produce it must be evil.
- March 23, 2012 1:01 pm
- Davoh said...
"If I can prevent just one person from watching this, it'll have been worth suffering through it."
Interesting concept. How many wars and 'suffering' does the human race (yes, am vaguely 'racist') .. have to go through until there is some sort of "understanding" (and yes, i use that word carefully - as distinct from "overstanding") .. to comprehend how the universe operates.
(am expecting some response asking me for an answer - can only say that the answer lives within your own self/indoctrination/education.) - March 25, 2012 11:58 am


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Elizabeth Chatworth stood on the very edge of the steep cliff, gazing toward the sea of tall barley grasses. Below her, seemingly tiny men walked with scythes on their shoulders, a few rode horses and one drove a team of oxen.
But Elizabeth didn't really see the men because her chin was held too high and it was locked into place so rigidly that nothing was going to bring it down. A warm gust of wind tried to force her away from the edge but she braced her legs and refused to move. If what had already happened to her today and now what she faced did not sway her, no mere wind was going to break her stance.
Her green eyes were dry but her throat was swollen shut with a lump of anger and unshed tears. A muscle in her jaw flexed and unflexed as she breathed deeply, trying to control her pounding heart.
Another gust of wind blew her tangled mass of honey blonde hair away from her back and, unbeknownst to Elizabeth, one last pearl disentangled itself and slid down the torn, dirty red silk of her dress. The finery she'd worn to her friend's wedding was now shredded beyond repair, her hair loose and flowing, her cheek smudged-and her hands were crudely tied behind her back.
Elizabeth lifted her eyes toward heaven, unblinking at the bright daylight. All her life, she'd had her looks referred to as angelic and never had she looked so delicate, so serene, so much like a celestial being as she did now with her heavy hair swirling about her like some silken cloak, her ragged gown giving her the look of a Christian martyr.
But the farthest thoughts from Elizabeth's mind were ones of sweetness -- or of forgiving.
"I will fight to the death," she murmured skyward, her eyes darkening to the color of an emerald on a moonlit night. "No man will best me. No man will make me submit to his will."
"Pleadin' with the Lord, are you?" came the voice of her captor from beside her.
Slowly, as if she had all the time in the world, Elizabeth turned to the man, and the coldness in her eyes made him take a step backward. He was a braggart like the hideous man he served, Pagnell of Waldenham, but this underling was a coward when his master wasn't present.
John gave a nervous cough, then boldly stepped forward and grabbed Elizabeth's upper arm. "You may think you're the great lady but for now I'm your master."
She looked him squarely in the eyes, showing none of the pain he was causing her -- after all she'd had more than enough physical and mental pain in her life. "You will never be anyone's master," she said calmly.
For a moment John's hand released its pressure on her arm, but the next second he pulled her forward and pushed her roughly.
Elizabeth nearly lost balance, but by a supreme concentration she managed to stay upright and began to walk forward.
"Every man is any woman's master," John was saying from behind her. "Women like you just haven't realized it yet. All it'll take is one good man slamming away on top of you and you'll learn who's your master. And from what I hear this Miles Montgomery is the man to give you what you need."
At the name of Montgomery Elizabeth tripped, falling to her knees.
John's laugh was disproportionately loud as he acted as if he'd succeeded in some great feat. He stood by, watching insolently as Elizabeth struggled to stand, her feet tangled in her skirt, her bound hands making her awkward.
"Excited about Montgomery, are you?" he taunted as he jerked her to her feet. For a moment he touched her cheek, the soft ivory skin, running a dirty fingertip over her delicate lips. "How can a woman as lovely as you be such a termagant? You and I could be nice to each other and Lord Pagnell would never know. What would it matter who's first? Montgomery will take your virginity anyway, so what difference does a day or so make?"
Elizabeth gathered the saliva in her mouth and spit it all into his face. It cost her a great deal of pain in her sore body as his hand came out to strike her face, but she ducked expertly and began to run. Her tied hands made speed impossible and John caught her easily, grabbing what was left of her skirt and causing her to fall, face down, on the ground.
"You vicious little slut!" he gasped, turning her over, straddling her. "You'll pay for that. I've tried to be fair with you but you deserve to be beaten."
Elizabeth's hands and arms were pinned under her and in spite of all she could do, the pain was causing tears to gather in her eyes. "But you won't beat me, will you?" she said confidently. "Pagnell would find out what you'd done and he would beat you. Men like you never risk harm to their own precious selves."
John put his hands on her breasts and his lips on hers, grinding his mouth against hers, but Elizabeth showed no emotion whatsoever. In disgust, he moved away from her and angrily walked back toward the horses.
Elizabeth sat up and tried to regain her calm. She was quite good at not showing her inner emotions and now she wanted to save all her strength for the ordeal to come.
Montgomery! The name rang in her head. Of all her fears, of all her terrors in life, the name Montgomery seemed to be the cause of them all. A Montgomery had caused her sister-in-law to lose her beauty and most of her sanity. A Montgomery had caused her older brother's disgrace and her brother Brian's disappearance. And indirectly, a Montgomery had caused her own capture.
Elizabeth had been an attendant at a friend's wedding and by accident she'd overheard an odious man she'd known all her life, Pagnell, planning to turn a pretty little singer over to his corrupt relatives to be tried as a witch. When Elizabeth tried to rescue the girl, Pagnell had caught them and, as a joke, had decided to have Elizabeth delivered to her enemy, a Montgomery. Perhaps things wouldn't have been so bad if the singer, in a generous but not wholly intelligent gesture, had not given the information that she was somehow connected with a Montgomery.
Pagnell had bound and gagged Elizabeth, rolled her in a filthy piece of canvas and ordered his man, John, to deliver her to the notoriously lecherous, satyric, hot-blooded Miles Montgomery. Of all the four Montgomery men, Elizabeth knew that the youngest, a boy of only twenty years, just two years older than Elizabeth, was the worst. Even in the convent where she'd spent the last several years, she'd heard stories of Miles Montgomery.
She'd been told that he'd sold his soul to the devil when he was sixteen and as a result he had an unholy power over women. Elizabeth had laughed at the story but she'd not told the reason for her laughter. She thought it much more likely that Miles Montgomery was like her dead brother Edmund and had ordered women to his bed. It was a pity that this Montgomery's seed seemed to be so fertile, for it was rumored that he had a hundred bastards.
Three years ago a young girl, Bridget, had left the convent where Elizabeth often lived to go and work at the ancient Montgomery fortress. She was a pretty girl with big dark eyes and swaying hips. To Elizabeth's disgust, the other residents alternately acted as if the girl were going to her wedding or to be a human sacrifice. The day before Bridget left, the prioress spent two hours with her and at vespers the girl's eyes were red from crying.
Eleven months later, a traveling musician brought them the news that Bridget had been delivered of a large, healthy boy who she named James Montgomery. It was freely admitted that Miles was the father.
Elizabeth joined in the many prayers offered for the girl's sins. Privately she cursed all men like her brother Edmund and Miles Montgomery -- evil men who believed women had no souls, who thought nothing of beating and raping women, of forcing them to do all manner of hideous acts.
She had no time for more thoughts as John grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her to her feet.
"Your time for prayers is over," he said into her face. "Montgomery has made camp and it's time he got a look at his next." -- he smiled -- "mother of his next bastard."
He laughed aloud when Elizabeth struggled against him, and when she realized he enjoyed her struggles, she stopped and gave him her coldest look.
"Witch!" he flung at her. "We'll see if this devil Montgomery can capture the angel you look like -- or will he find your heart as black as his own?"
Smiling, his hand twisted in her hair, he brought a sharp little dagger to rest against her throat. When she didn't flinch at the feel of the cold steel against her skin, his smile changed to a smirk.
"Sometimes the Montgomery men make the mistake of talking to women instead of using them as God meant them to be used. I plan to see that this Montgomery has no such ideas."
Slowly, he trailed the tip of the blade down her throat to the high square neck of what was left of her gown.
Her breath held, her eyes on his, her anger held under rigid control, she stood very still. She would not goad him to use the knife on her.
John did not cut her skin, but the blade easily parted the front of her dress and her tight corset under it. When he'd exposed the full curve of her breasts, he looked back into her face. "You've been hiding a great deal, Elizabeth," he whispered.
She stiffened and looked away from his face. It was true that she dressed conservatively, flattening her breasts, thickening her waist. Her face attracted more men than she wanted, but aside from covering her hair she could do nothing about her face.
John was no longer interested in her face as he concentrated on slicing away the rest of her gown. He'd seen very few women nude and never one of Elizabeth Chatworth's station -- or her beauty.
Elizabeth's spine was so stiff it could have been made of steel and when her clothes fell away and her bare skin felt the warm August sun, she knew that this was more painful than what had heretofore been done to her.
An ugly expletive from John, uttered from deep within him, made her blink.
"Damn Pagnell!" he cursed and reached for ...
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I really enjoyed the ending to the Velvet series. We got to read Miles' story and got to know him. He was kinda aloof in the previous 3 books and it was nice to find out he is just as sexy and interesting as his brothers! The added mystery and chivalry that Miles possesed made him a very likable character to me. Miles' story is a little different than the others, he has to try and settle the bloody fued between his family the Montgomerys and the enemy, the Chatworths. How you might ask? He finds himself hopelessly attracted to the Chatworth sister, Elizabeth...
She was delivered to him rolled in a carpet, naked and looking like an angel sent from Heaven. Miles is confused on who she is as she stares at him with her deep emerald eyes and long honey blonde hair, maybe she IS an angel...until she comes at him with an axe of course...
Elizabeth is being used as a pawn in a deadly game between waring families and enemies. She vows to not surrender herself or her pride. She finds herself a captive of the most notorious of the Montgomery brothers, Miles. He is reputed to use women mercilessly and throw them aside. Getting them pregnant with his children for fun. She hated the Montgomery's...she despised them! They were the cause of her family's problems! They caused her poor sister-in-law to go mad! She was a Chatworth! The fierce hatred between these two waring familes has caused the king to become angry!
In a haze of murder, rape and betrayal, Miles and Elizabeth find themselves caught in the middle as their own hearts are torn. She wants him, yet she fears him and hates what he is...but can she tell her heart the same? Is her own family the cause of the problems? Can she learn to love a Montgomery? Can Miles learn not to hate? Can past brutalities fade enough to let love in? Can these two lost hearts end a raging fued that has lasted far too long before the king banishes them all?
A nonstop action/adventure/romance! A wonderful ending to the series! We get to meet up with past characters from the previous books, Judith & Gavin, Stephen & Bronwyn, Raine & Alyx and the many secondary characters that I have grown to love. There are MANY surprises in this last installent that cannot be missed and all the loose ends are finally tied up neatly. A sure keeper!
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Miles is fascinating! If you've read any, or all, of the "Velvet" series and want to know about ba but the last portion falls flat. As for the good part - we finally get to know Miles, who's been a bit of an enigma for the first three books. He's actually very young (I believe about 20) but complex. My impression of him in the previous three books was that of a really smooth womanizer, with not much else to recommend him. Well, apparently, he is/was quite a womanizer, but that's his major (not fatal) flaw - just as his three brothers have flaws. He's not a bad guy - in many ways, he's nicer to Elizabeth than the others have been to their eventual wives. Elizabeth is not a simpering whiner (in my opinion) - she's pretty feisty and has a wonderfully soft heart, for someone who's had a crappy life. (Judith - book 1 - was abused telling. But things just derail at the end. I don't object to how she wraps the story up - in fact, I think the concept is excellent (I won't give it all away - but the women save the day). She just needed to take about 100 more pages to carry off the complex ending. In the process Miles strong personality just evaporates. And there's the very, very bizarre subplot (which plays a major role in setting up the finale) of Roger Chatsworth (yes, of the evil Chatsworths - Elizabeth is one too) and a woman. I actually welcomed an attempt to bring redemption to Roger, but it just doesn't work - it's almost creepy. The author did add a cute epilogue that lets you know how almost everyone turns out (no word on Jocelyn from "Velvet Promise" and "Velvet Song" or that nice Alan Fairfax who ended up helping Judith and Gavin in "Velvet Promise" - we'll assume they lived happily ever after!) Ultimately - read this to wrap the series up, but it's not as strong as the others.
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My friend Aaron and I have been trading mixes for over a year now. Nothing beats some good old fashioned snail mail with an awesome mix. We got together to bring you the best of our exchange which we call "The Goodness".
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1. Escape From New York – John Carpenter
2. Master Jack – Four Jacks and A Jill
3. St. Elmo's Fire – Brian Eno
4. Made In Japan – Buck Owens
5. L'amour Stories – Deerhoof
6. All I Wanna Do – The Beach Boys
7. Ghost Ship In A Storm – Jim O'Rourke
8. Get To You – The Byrds
9. I'm Glad – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
10. Hospital – The Modern Lovers
11. Boyd's Journey – Michael Nyman
12. What's The Most Exciting Thing – Moondog
13. Glass Museum – Tortoise
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From: The Spencer County Visitors Bureau
New Billboards Promote Lincoln's Indiana Home
LINCOLN CITY, IND. - As the nation prepares to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday, his boyhood home Spencer County, Indiana, is highlighting its Lincoln-themed attractions with a series of new billboards.
The new billboards, which invite people to "Visit Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home," are located on Highway 60E in Owensboro, Ky., and I-65 near Scottsburg, Ind. A billboard with the same design is already up on I-64 near Evansville and will remain in place. The photo used on the billboard was taken at Lincoln Pioneer Village in Rockport.
In Spencer County, visitors can see a working farm and cabins typical of the structures where Lincoln lived, worked and learned. The mighty Ohio River still rolls along our scenic banks where Lincoln ferried passengers out to passing steamboats.
"Lincoln's boyhood lessons and values are as relevant today as they were nearly 200 years ago," said Melissa Miller, executive director of the Spencer County Visitors Bureau. "We invite visitors to come here and trace the past of a man whose legacy is still forging the future."
Plans are well underway for Spencer County's commemoration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. A complete listing of special events is available at www.ThinkLincoln.org. Spencer County's Bicentennial Celebration, which is endorsed by the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (www.Lincoln200.gov), will begin on May 11, 2008, with a Mother's Day event at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, where Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried. Special Lincoln events will be celebrated throughout Spencer County through the fall of 2009.
Lincoln sites located in Spencer County include the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln Pioneer Village & Museum, Lincoln State Park, Lincoln Amphitheatre, Colonel Jones Home, Lincoln Landing, Buffalo Run Farm, Lincoln Ferry Park, Ohio River Scenic Route.
The Spencer County Visitors Bureau provides travel information to visitors and media about Spencer County, Indiana, the site of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home, the world famous Santa Claus Post Office, and the world's first theme park, Holiday World & Splashin Safari.
To request a free copy of Spencer County's Lincoln Visitors Guide, visit www.ThinkLincoln.org or call 1-888-444-9252.
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Alright people, it's almost the end of the year – which means some big releases are coming out. Some of the biggest albums, movies, and video games are slatted for release, making for one incredible last quarter in 2012. Enough of this, let's get to our selections. [Read more...]
Review: A Prophet (Now Out on Blu-ray and DVD)
Making my Best of List for 09 earlier this year I never properly reviewed A Prophet. So to build awareness of this excellent film's release on DVD and Blu-Ray I will give it the proper review it deserves.
Review: A Prophet
A Prophet might be the best crime film of the last decade and is a near perfect film on almost every level.
Malik, 19, arrives to prison ready to serve a 6 year sentence for beating up a cop. A repeat offender, this is the first time that Malik has committed a crime of the age to be sent to the real prison and things don't start off well for the young inmate. Illiterate and uneducated, this half French/half Muslim kid is despised by both factions that the prison naturally split into based on ethnicity. After getting pushed around a bit, like every new inmate seems to be, Malik's situation gets dire in a hurry. A group of Corsican gangsters who run the prison, led by César, "volunteer" Malik to kill a Muslim inmate that is going to testify against the Corsican's on the outside. If Malik isn't up to the task, the Corsican's will kill him instead.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or skill of swimming.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or act of swimming.
- n. The act or process of swimming
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of floating on the water; swimming.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of someone who floats on the water
- From Latin natatio (Wiktionary)
- Latin natātiō, natātiōn-, from natātus, past participle of natāre, frequentative of nāre, to swim; see snā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"Je me rappelle avoir eu exactement la même sensation après un cours J+S de natation… c'était il y a plus de dix ans… mais je m'en rappelle comme si c'était hier."
"Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids"
""A poor country for the land-owners!" said Joe, once more vigorously resorting to his skill in the art of natation."
"It was an unfavourable time of the year for such an unprecedented feat of natation, but the Hatfield Champion was confident of success."
"Now, as natation is generally effected by repeated and vigorous lateral flexions of the body, we ought to find the segmentation much more complete laterally than on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the spinal column."
"The lads dived deep, swimming the while with long, powerful strokes, for both were accomplished in the art of natation."
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"Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation), vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers 'fires of smoking peat turves (period of hibernation)."
"The bay at Skelwick was so dangerous that Father would not allow any of them to bathe there, so as yet she had had no chance of testing her skill in natation."
"But, even as many sailors cannot swim a stroke, so many an inlander, born and brought up within sight of fresh water, has never taken the trouble to grasp the simplest rudiments of natation."
"The last thing that Bill heard, ere sleep closed his lids, was a pious resolution on the part of Mr. Bliss to the effect that all his children should be taught the art of natation as soon as they were born."
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swimming or of supporting the body, towards the surface of the water, so as to float, and advance by the means of a combined and regular action of the hands and feet. The brute creation swim without any previous instruction; but man has to learn the art. Great advantages are derived from a knowledge of this art, when it becomes necessary that a corps should pass a river and have neither bridge nor boats, on which they can cross. In the French army, there were whole regiments of horse and foot which could pass a river in complete order of battle." (citation in list description) Oct 9, 2008
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A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a date with a Charming Man who has since been nicknamed "Apple Juice." Here's the conclusion:
The following Wednesday after the gelato/apple juice date, a friend and I met at a neighbourhood spot to enjoy the unseasonal yet Ari-approved temperature. I had actually cancelled this particular get-together because I had so much on my plate to finish (bacon was not one of these things). She messaged me midday and asked if instead of gorging on food we just met up for a quick drink. My arm need not to be twisted to suck back some sauce so I agreed – obviously. I'm not one for knowing hot spots nor great spots for grabbing a drink – so she gave me some options, I chose Allen's on the Danforth and we met up later that evening.
Upon arriving, we were promptly seated on the patio, placed our orders and I begin filling her in on the adventures of Apple Juice. She told me what I already knew and got my head back in its right place.
I hear my name from the starboard side of the patio table (I was in Pioneer Girls as a child, I know this is to the right-hand side. DO NOT TEST ME DURING THE RE-TELLING OF THIS STORY!) Can we all guess who it was? Of course we can because this is my motha-f*ckin' life.
Me: HI! (said way too excitedly, my friend in front of me looking from me to the glasses-wearing giant beside the table)
Apple Juice: *offers his hand, then shakes my hand* Hey, how's it going?
Now let me stop the script right here for the following reason: I'm mostly sure I've blocked the rest of the conversation like a trauma. Did he just shake my hand? I do know that I introduced him to my friend and he shook her hand but did he actually shake my hand? I'm unsure…the answer may reveal itself as I keep going. Small-talk, small-talk and he's back to his table on the patio DIRECTLY BESIDE US. How did we not see him when sat down? Did he show up aft–WHAAAAAT THAAAAAA FUUUUUUUU—and he's on a date. He's on a date, y'all! He's on it and he's beside us. My friend is obviously curious and asked me who he was. I replied: THAT is Apple Juice. Her eyes widen because what are the odds of this happening? His date is a Zooey Deschanel-type and I think I was most offended for her. How about he doesn't get up in the middle of his date to say hello to someone he's been on a date with that very same week? She doesn't know how we know each other, but he sure as hells does….sooooooooo that's disrespectful in my eyes. Maybe he wanted to pre-empt awkwardness but he shouldn't have assumed that's how I roll. We've been out twice, I obviously know you're still dating. Just be cool, dude. Do not come over to my table and say hi. Also…I think he shook my hand.
My friend and I complete our drinks and snacks and are constantly breaking out in fits of giggles because the entire situation is ridiculous. I had choices of places to go and I picked this one on a whim, the patio is huge and he's sitting directly beside us, and oh yeah…did I mention the reason we couldn't get together that week is that he had to work on a school presentation that night. *single blink* I was so tempted to stick around to see if he paid the bill because they were eating/drinking a lot more dollars than gelato and Tim Horton's apple juice would ever cost! But alas, it was cold and we were done with the evening.
That Friday, he sent me a text telling me he caught a bit of a cold and hoped I had a great rest of my week. I replied and said I hoped he felt better and thanks. Last week he sent a text thanking me for suggesting that he take his suit jacket to a tailor and told me about a show he played for CMW. *infinite blinks* What do I do with this? Is this text-small talk? Really? REEEEALLY? I didn't respond because he didn't give me anything to respond to. I feel very confident ending this particular chapter because no one (me) has time to waste. But mark my words, WHEN I write my book, you best believe it will be called "Just Buy Me The Damn Apple Juice."


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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Casey's Boss Comes to Her Senses
It seems that being a Real estate broker, even one with huge fake tits, doesn't make one so dim-witted as to not realize how toxic Casey is or how badly you can get hurt by associating your name with his.
And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where we're anxiously awaiting the next eruption of Caseyness, which will most likely hit us when we least expect it.
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I love those bazoongas, dammit.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- WeWantTheFunk said...
Too bad they don't love you.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:59 PM
I bet someone at the tanning salon already left their sheriff's face cream on them.
- June 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Grow up, Anonymous! Angel was not raised to do such a thing! She was raised to launder money and drink herself silly and find a man to buy her lunch and boobs. So straighten up, Mister!
- June 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM
My only complaint w/r/t the ED reference is in the links to CH.C suggesting that one might register.
Alas, I was purged for being "uninvolved" during a busy RL season that coincided with a dredded purge if you didn't post before banning.
Alas and alack, I never got the memo before I was bounced.
Repeated knee level groveling to the Dude and other mods never even elicted a mocking reply. :crickets:
Is it even possible I could promise to suck on something or other to gain reinstatement?
-Appalled. - June 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- False Casey said...
If you email us at firstname.lastname@example.com we will try to get one of our associates to pass the message on to the powers that be at CHC - June 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM


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A New Age of Jefferson: New Hampshire's "Free Staters" started it all
Hat tip: Tenth Amendment Center
At the beginning of every movement is a wild bunch. Rowdy workers on the docks in Boston, John Brown and his half-mad family. When historians trace back from Scott Brown to the beginning, they will get to a wild bunch in New Hampshire called the "Free Staters."
They moved here a few years back and live on the edge of the forest, not more than a handful at first but expecting thousands to follow, intending to start the republic fresh again. And in a way they did. I came to their attention with an article in 2003 titled "A States' Rights Defense against Dick Cheney" premised on Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions, making the claim that New Hampshire and Vermont need not participate in the war on Iraq without the permission of our state governors.
They had moved up here drawn to our state motto, I think – Live Free or Die. But it was no big ideological thing, more a free-spirited awakening which brought the usual scoffs from the lace curtain MSM and conventional political religionists here in the cold where local politics sometimes seems a substitute for religion. I received an email from one blithe spirit who said that she was basically about " . . . opposing gun laws, legalizing marijuana and Hillary is a bitch."
What we had in common was the premise that Thomas Jefferson had recognized the natural state that formed of its own initiative when ideology was removed from the equation. And acknowledged that in the Constitution by declaring that the states had the natural right and the ability to defend themselves against an abusive, arrogant, immoral or delirious federal government.


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Well it was fun while it lasted (but probably not so fun for him). Embattled Illinois Republican Party Chairman Paty Brady, who famously came out in support of marriage equality, has resigned.
Since announcing his personal support of same-sex marriage, Brady has been under constant seige from his fellow party members seeking his removal or resignation.
Still, Brady maintains that's not why he's leaving his post.
Details after the jump.


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Sunday, 21 October 2012
Shiny, shiny shoes.
One of the things I like most about being part of the Spartoo blogger's programme is discovering new brands I might not otherwise know about. Sarah turned me on to Betty London after posting about their glittery court shoes on her blog, but having a sneaky look at their brand page has just given me a million other pairs of shoes I'm coveting. I think a few of these may make it into my basket at the end of the month.
I keep telling myself I need more practical, work-appropriate shoes, but look at the glittery ones. So pretty!
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Alice Waters is one of the best-known and most influential American chefs since the 1970s, is credited with single-handedly creating a culinary revolution in the United States. She is the founder and co-owner of Chez Panisse, the original "California Cuisine" restaurant in Berkeley, California, as well as the informal Cafe Fanny in West Berkeley. A champion of locally-grown and fresh ingredients, she has been credited with creating and developing California Cuisine and has written or co-written several books on the subject, including the influential Chez Panisse Cooking (written with then-chef Paul Bertolli). She has also promoted organic and small farm products heavily in her restaurants, in her books, and in her Edible Schoolyard program at the King Middle School in Berkeley. Her ideas for "edible education" have been introduced into the entire Berkeley school system, and with the current crisis in childhood obesity, have attracted the attention of the national media.


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SEVIERVILLE, TN -- Catawba finished eighth at the 2013 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Championships which concluded on Tuesday. The three-day event was held at the 7,054-yard, Par-72 Sevierville Golf Club (River Course). Lincoln Memorial went wire-to-wire to win the team title with a total of 873, 33 shots better than Wingate.
WALLACE, NC -- Catawba finished eighth out of 12 teams at the UNCP/Campbell Oil Classic which finished up on Saturday at the 6,895-yard, par-72 River Landing Country Club. Host UNC Pembroke won the event by three shots over Wingate. The Braves had a total of 894 over the three rounds. Catawba had a 938 total.
MINT HILL, NC – The Catawba College men's golf 'B' team finished 14th at the J. Ralph Hargett Invitational which concluded on Monday at the 6,936-yard, par-72 Olde Sycamore Golf Course. Walters State Community College took the two day victory with a 15-shot lead over host Wingate with a 601.
SALISBURY, NC -- Belmont Abbey shot a second-day 287 to claim the win at the Rendleman Invitational Men's Golf Tournament on Tuesday afternoon. The two-day tournament was hosted by Catawba College at the 6,665-yard, par-71 Country Club of Salisbury. USC Aiken, the first round leader, finished runner-up, seven shots behind the Crusaders after shooting a total of 590.


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