half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
Акройд про средневековье:

We may read for instruction a great juridical text of the period, Sir John Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae – ‘In Praise of the Laws of England’ – and even applaud the development or ‘evolution’ of justice; but in practice the law was rotten and worm-eaten. We may say the same of the parliament house and of the court. It is not to be expected that any human institution will be other than rackety and only partially competent; only in histories do they proceed with ease to their ordained end.

Снайдер не про средневековье:

What people don't think about, is that dictatorship and democracy, it's not this sort of glorious fight of black and white where at the end of the day people are gonna rise up and defend freedom. The way it actually works is, you vote for the wrong person, you don't get to vote again, because elections become meaningless, and you start to become afraid of things you haven't thought of being afraid of before.

@темы: книги, youTube

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
смотреть "Пустую корону" задом наперёд, первую часть. Вторая была хороша, но первая so far (первая серия)- это вообще огнище. Совершенно понятно за что Уишоу дали Бафту, потому что от его Ричарда Второго невозможно оторваться. Плюс визуально картина божественно, даже как-то излишне хороша. Визуал по красивости и масштабу напомнил всякую классику вроде эпического Бекета (64 год, с О'Тулом и Бёртоном).

Параллельно четаю Foundation Акройда, про соответствующий исторический период, Акройд как всегда прекрасен)) Вот про того же самого Ричарда:

One chronicler, known only as ‘the monk of Evesham’, described him as being extravagant in dress and imperious in temper; he was frightened of war and preferred to spend the night ‘carousing with friends’ and indulging himself in ‘unmentionable’ ways. This has often been taken as an allusion to Richard’s possible homosexuality, but to a monk many things may be unmentionable.

ыыы :crztuk:


@темы: книги, binge watching, Schprachfimmel

21:21

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
в "Пустой короне" у Жанны Д'Арк такой акцент как будто она из Йорка или ещё каких английских северов) I guess it's supposed to convey the idea of "humble origins" or something.

(мой вечер пятницы в четверг: смотрю Шекспира под чай с печеньками))

@темы: кино, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
Даунтон. Местами он был прекрасен.

That's life, isn't it, getting past the unexpected.

:heart:

Ютуб, хорошо знающий мои музыкальные предпочтения, принёс в клюве свежее бибисишное интервью с Марком Нопфлером (у него новый альбом вышел, вполне себе). Оба бибисишных ведущих говорят с таким же акцентом как народ downstairs и прочие фермеры в Даунтоне))

@темы: кино, дыбр, youTube, binge watching, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
"Work's like old age, milady: the worst thing in the world, except for the alternative."

@темы: binge watching, Schprachfimmel

23:10

Alienation

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
ощущение, которое можно передать матерно

или красиво: ‘I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children’

@темы: дыбр

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
пересматриваю Аббатство Даунтон

What would be the point of living if we didn't let life change us?

@темы: binge watching

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
прекрасное) Как он объяснял друзьям почему не придёт на коронацию Анны Болейн)

He told them, first, a story concerning the emperor Tiberius; he had enacted a law which exacted death for a certain penalty, unless the offender were a virgin. But when a virgin woman did eventually appear on that charge the emperor was unsure how to proceed. Then one of his council proposed the perfect solution. ‘Why make you so much ado, my lords, about so small a matter? Let her first be deflowered and then after may she be devoured!’

Thomas More: And so, though your lordships have in the matter of the matrimony kept yourselves pure virgins, yet take good heed, my lords, that you keep your virginity still. For some there be that by procuring your lordships first at the coronation to be present, and next to preach for the setting forth of it, and finally to write books to all the world in defense thereof, are desirous to deflower you; and when they have deflowered you, then will they not fail soon after to devour you. Now, my lords, it lieth not in my power but that they may devour me. But God, being my good Lord, I will provide that they shall never deflower me!

@темы: книги, дыбр, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both

"...но пространство экономя как отлиться в форму массе кроме кладбища и кроме чёрной очереди к кассе"

и немножко мата из меня

@темы: ебаньки на марше, дыбр, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
Не только Уильям Тиндейл постарался, Томас Мор тоже руку приложил))

He (More) was devoted to the traditional order but, in linguistic terms, he is a great innovator. Some of the words and phrases he introduced into written English include ‘fact’, ‘taunt’, ‘shuffle’, ‘anticipate’, ‘paradox’, ‘pretext’, ‘obstruction’, ‘monosyllable’, ‘meeting’, ‘not to see the wood for the trees’, and ‘to make the best of something’.

(Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More

А то все Шекспир да Шекспир :alles:

@темы: книги, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
...a general dislocation of values.

@темы: книги

00:27

бубубу

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
отсмотрела Freud's Last Session, свеженькое, 23го года кино про то как встретились Зигмунд Фрейд и К.С. Льюис в сентябре 1939 года и решили обсудить есть ли бог или бога нет. Из фильма получается что поделиться им было нечем, кроме банальных общих мест и относительно занятных (и хз насколько достоверных) фактов биографии.
Хопкинс, правда, как всегда прекрасен, но от этого как-то ещо обиднее :alles:
из ценного - полезное напоминание о том, что, например, пришлось пережить поколению того же Льюиса.
А так - I've read better fanfics than this, including those based on Lewis's work.

@темы: кино

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both


и вообще-то результат приличный, а если учесть что мы начинали Writing с уровня 5.5 и времени у нас было 2 с половиной месяца, то и вообще студент у меня молодец) ну и я вопщем тож ничо таг)

@темы: дыбр, twenty years of schooling and they'll put you on the day shift

12:46

бгг

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
Историки с канала Real Royalty жгут и пепелят))

(the letter) begins, “Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well” - that's medieval English for “hello”

(Уорик пишет Эдварду IV открытое письмо в том духе что "я тебя политически породил, я тебя и убью"))

@темы: youTube, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
меня играть к вам не отпустит
мой папа больше никогда
сказал исус потом добавил
и землю вашу он вертел

@темы: дыбр, не просочиться бы в канализацию...

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
про мужскую дружбу:

Soon after his arrival at Calais he received from Erasmus a diptych, which displayed painted images of Peter Gillis and of Erasmus himself on two wooden panels. More was delighted by the gift, so timely a reminder of his ‘humanist’ world in a place and period where he was embroiled in legal and commercial matters, and at once wrote both to Erasmus and Gillis in praise of a work which would act as a perpetual token of their presence in his life; he was ‘coniunctus amore’, united in love with them. In the painting Erasmus wears a ring on the forefinger of his right hand; it had been presented to him by More. Indeed throughout his life More was notably generous, and his contemporaries seem delighted to have offered him gifts in return, even if they were not always so magnificent as the diptych. In this period, for example, Cuthbert Tunstall sent him a fly suspended in precious amber shaped as a heart. It was an age in which friendship between men could take elaborate forms.

про политику и идеологию:

His constant proximity to the king meant that he became a figure of much authority and power, but there were more significant reasons for royal service. He truly believed the king to be divinely ordained, the proper source of the harmony and blessings of the ‘commonwelth’. Henry represented spiritual, almost magical, power. In that sense it became More’s duty to serve him. Perhaps the element of sacrifice in the choice, made it all the more pleasing to him; once more he could subdue his own inclinations, just as he subdued his flesh, in the service of a higher order. Yet he knew himself well enough to know that he might serve as a counsellor to his monarch and, a few years later, declared it necessary that every man of ‘good mynde’ should give ‘good aduyce towarde his prynce and his countrey’. It is fair to take this as a measure of More’s own feelings on becoming a councillor attendant: he would be in the very best position to advise and persuade the king to follow his own highest instincts and better judgements. He could only have been heartened when, on his entering the king’s service, Henry himself told him that he should serve God first and his master second.

То есть не преминул на эшафоте напомнить Генриху что "I die the king's good servant, and God's first"


@темы: книги

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
God's Outaw, производственное кино про переводчика Библии на английский Уильяма Тиндейла. Кино вопщем так себе, но в качестве иллюстрации к википедии пойдёт) Плюс лишний раз полюбоваться на ещо одну инкарнацию набора полюбившихся персонажей в лице Генриха Восьмого, кардинала Вулси, Томаса Мора и Томаса Кромвеля) Генрих и Мор здесь прям совсем старенькие, в отличие от глав героя который молод и романтичен) Хотя на самом деле в изображаемый период и Генриху и Тиндейлу было несколько за тридцать, а Мору - несколько за сорок)) Зато Кромвель внезапно молод и хорош собой)) Вулси, как обычно, толст и неприятен)
Несмотря на так себе уровень, кино вопщем передаёт атмосферу времени, зарождение книгопечатания, распространение всякого небывалого знания типа греческого языка, и то что щас бы назвали аппроприацией священного писания (по типу "каждая кухарка будет управлять государством", в смысле, каждый пахарь будет толковать библию на свой лад))
Но вообще могли бы и получше фильм сделать) В конце концов, Тиндейл придумал Passover, atonement, the powers that be, и let there be light. И ещо всякого разного.
То есть реально, переводил с греческого и иврита (заглядывая в немецкий перевод Лютера), не хватало ему слов и идиом, и он изобретал свои :crazylove:

@темы: кино, Schprachfimmel

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
меня тут одно интересное ощущение, посмотрела-почитала всяких приличных по моим представлениям людей и чо-то укрепилась в нём: вполне может быть и так, что я закончусь раньше, чем вот это всё.
Новое агрегатное состояние.

@темы: ебаньки на марше, дыбр, не просочиться бы в канализацию...

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

@темы: дыбр

half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
disillusionment is really hard to take



@темы: музыка, дыбр, не просочиться бы в канализацию...