Charlie Rose

finalfantasytown  12/15/2011 10:16 PM Report

'Stop Hei Hei, what that sound? All the mammoth are underground~~~

finalfantasytown  12/14/2011 01:39 AM Report

For the art of words, I see how simplified Chinese words, which is designed to be stronger or more concrete, have been translated into simplified skyscrapers. It is a valuable experience that standing among the simplified buildings surrounded by dirty thick fog, I talked to them without seeing face and choke my lung simultaneously. Who sold the beautiful cars to them? Who not simplified cars. Everything should be simplified.

Sorry for dark cloud, I am back to normal. Weatherforcast said no storm today.

finalfantasytown  12/13/2011 11:37 PM Report

'take' means digest, catalyze, and then absorb.

finalfantasytown  12/13/2011 10:48 PM Report

In positive way, not in the natural way, I take Shakespeare's products as oxygen. Synthesizing the silicon I using with oxygen into flat mirror, I clearly see myself. In terms of mirror, it is man-made, it is fantastic.

Duty in experiment...... Would you transfer or transmit the duty or value into somewhere, which I think most of the missions have been done. Can I participate in mirage-making in the desert, the GOD-made mirror?

JohnHanley  12/13/2011 01:59 PM Report

I think Shakespeare would have agreed that self knowledge wasn't easy to aquire, but he probably would also have thought that it was easier than the alternative. If you think about it, King Lear was practically as deluded about his reality before the storm scene as he seemed to be after, he just didn't know it. At least he died finding out what love really was, instead of dying with no clue. He paid a terrible price, but in the end I guess that's the moral of the play, that we should investigate our own lives all along and not just wait for the end.

That was a great clip from the play, by the way. Was that Ian Mccellan?(I probably spelled his name wrong, sorry.) I'll have to see if I can check that production out.

I thought Laurence Olivier was the best Hamlet. David Tenant was too tense, and Kenneth Branaugh kept shouting and covering his face with his hands. Dissapointing, since he was so good in Henry the Fifth.

REMant  12/13/2011 12:07 PM Report

I wouldn't trivialize Shakespeare, for instance by trying to make Macbeth into the Godfather, or to symbolize some dictator or other, which I think was not the intent anyway, nor get all breathy about them, but simply set the play in its context. That is not so easily done I'll admit, but I think it's necessary. Shakespeare was, I believe, one of King James I's favorites, and while he had to be careful during Elizabeth's reign, he had few problems afterwards, and it is my impression that many of the plays were intended as much for his support, as, perhaps for his entertainment. Macbeth is peculiar in that it is only about half as long as Lear and Hamlet, and either has not come down to us in its original form or is simply unfinished, but politically I think it is quite clear. In the Chronicles Banquo is a co-conspirator, but James claimed descent from Banquo, a fact of some importance (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquo, in particular the ref to George Walton Williams). In the banquet scene Banquo's ghost is accompanied by the precise number of descendants down to James. Interesting, too, the play has Lennox relating that the slain King Duncan's son Macduff had sought Edward the Confessor's help in overthrowing Macbeth. A later Lennox, 37-year-old Catholic, Esme Stewart, created Duke by the teenaged James, became an object of Protestant aristocratic envy. They held James for ten months until he was banished. The play may therefore suggest those events in the king's life. But I would suppose it also to be a warning against regicide, not as usually held to condone tyrannicide, which would have accorded with James's philosophy, and it may have been intended as well to counter the Holinshed account, and absolve James's ancestor of complicity. Macbeth was not supposed to have been the bad king, Duncan was. It has been pointed out that regicide or not, Macbeth would have been the legitimate heir, and therefore due Banquo's allegiance, and then, of course, events could be blamed on the witches who were supposed to do more than merely predict the future, whose presence might be seen to have Greek roots. James was known also to have taken a serious and not very benign interest in witchcraft, writing a book about it which is supposed to have been consulted by Will. Mr Boyd's thought about the tree allusion is interesting, but not necessary, tho piety no doubt was claimed by all those Normans who considered themselves successors to the reputed last Anglo-Saxon monarch, and reinforces the regicide thesis. In any case, like Hamlet, this play needs the attention of historians.