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Gnomic Wisdom- (via xkcd: Kerning) February 10, 2012(via xkcd: Kerning)
- "Most Catholics I know don’t believe the Church has taken a beating over the last decade; in..." February 8, 2012“Most Catholics I know don’t believe the Church has taken a beating over the last decade; in fact, they believe a lot of ermined layabouts haven’t gotten half of what they deserve. They’re certainly not as prepared as Weigel apparently is to link the pale and sporadic justice dealt out to the victims of the hierarchy’s monstrous crimes to the current politic […]
- "A new enclosed mall has not opened in the United States since 2006, according to Professor..." February 8, 2012“A new enclosed mall has not opened in the United States since 2006, according to Professor Dunham-Jones, and many ambitious projects, like New Jersey’s Xanadu just west of Manhattan, have lain half-finished for years.” - How About Gardening or Golfing at the Mall? - Yahoo! Finance
- (via My kind of protest sign « Measure of Doubt) February 7, 2012(via My kind of protest sign « Measure of Doubt)
- Publishers are flubbing the iPad February 7, 2012Publishers are flubbing the iPad: In a study released last year, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 90% of tablet owners – who are concentrated among wealthy, highly educated grownups between the ages of 30 and 49 – regularly use the gizmos to consume news. Significantly, 59% of the respondents said the tablet has taken […]
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The Good Soldier Svejk!
I read this many years ago and thought it one of the funniest books … and then again some years later and thought it tragic and depressing. Whatever that says about my mental state, I still love the book and the character. And Prague! Thank you for the vicarious taste of this incredible city.
I’m still only about a third of the way through Svejk, but I’ve fallen in love with both the book and the character. One of the games I play with books I really love is to try to cast the movie if it were made into a film today (although I know The Good Soldier Svejk has been filmed several times). I’m thinking of John C. Reilly, but he’s too tall. Jack Black? Maybe he could pull it off.
John C. Reilly would have been perfect, except for the height, as you say. I’ve only seen one film w/ JB, and it wasn’t enough to judge. Maybe Anthony Hopkins — he could do the crafty side of Svejk, but I don’t know about the almost slapstick aspects. Hmmm, how about Ben Kingsley? (Thinking of Pascali’s Island, for one) Great game!
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