Confesssions

[Tiller]

Les Miserables should be required reading. My favorite book of all time. Absolutely beautiful story!

 

[esselle]

Speaking of confessions, and books - I am JUST NOW reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I don't know how it wasn't required reading or something in school, but anyway - I'm finally reading it.
(Reading the translation by William Butcher, BTW - which has quite extensive notes.)

Cool! Great read for sure. I could tell you the ending? :}

Les Miserables should be required reading. My favorite book of all time. Absolutely beautiful story!

^^ this ...I wonder why many books are left off the required reading list. :/

 

[Josh66]

I could tell you the ending? :}

I don't doubt that you could, but I'd rather you didn't.

 

[Tiller]

I don't doubt that you could, but I'd rather you didn't.

The ending is that they only get to 19,999 leagues!!!

 

[Josh66]

I don't doubt that you could, but I'd rather you didn't.

The ending is that they only get to 19,999 leagues!!!

Actually, in the notes, the translator says that the title should really be more like 16,000 leagues, but that just doesn't sound as cool, does it? And, to some this will be obvious - 20,000 leagues is a distance traveled, not a depth reached. 20,000 leagues is 5 or 6 times the diameter of the Earth.

Anyway, very good so far. I'm a dozen or so pages into 'part two' now.

The translator also notes that it's not really science fiction - all of the technologies discussed existed in Jules Verne's time. More of a character study than anything else. Nemo, the mysterious man that cannot be known... It's really about the 'unknowable man'. Why would a man throw away all Earthly contact, and what makes him tick? Also, I suspect that Nemo and Annorax are lovers...

 

[Josh66]

BTW... Not sure if this is true or not, but I heard that David Fincher is working on a new 20,000 Leagues movie... Which will supposedly "not be faithful to the book".

 

[unpopular]

uhm.

 

[Josh66]

Spammer. I was going to report him, but wasn't totally sure. But seeing as he just copy & pastes posts, and has that same stupid Sudanese emoticon at the end of every post, I don't think there's any question.

And wow, not sure how I instinctively knew that was the flag of Sudan, but it totally is, lol.

 

[Steve5D]

I shoot in "P" a lot.

But never the little green box. Never that...

 

[PixelRabbit]

When I'm editing all of the numbers have to be even and often are a multiple of 8... 8, 16, 24, 32...

 

[jwbryson1]

There are a few TPF members who are being rather cocky lately. Kinda getting on my nerves.

Cocky you say?! Where?!

Not cock! Cockeeeee. We don't need a thread like that started. That could get really ugly...really fast! Just picture it now....The cocks of TPF! (I am of course talking about roosters and stuff mods)

Did somebody call?

[/URL] I Said Boy!! by jwbryson1, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[jwbryson1]

Not cock! Cockeeeee. We don't need a thread like that started. That could get really ugly...really fast! Just picture it now....The cocks of TPF! (I am of course talking about roosters and stuff mods)

Speaking of cocks. There is a surprise in your inbox.

It would be a much bigger surprise if she found it in her outbox. Just sayin'....

 

[unpopular]

I don't think there would be anything 'big' about that surprise no matter what.

 

[jwbryson1]

I don't think there would be anything 'big' about that surprise no matter what.

Hard to quibble with that.

 

[Josh66]

When I'm editing all of the numbers have to be even and often are a multiple of 8... 8, 16, 24, 32...

I only ever set the volume on the TV to multiples of 2 or 5. lol.