LJ! Yaaays!
Nov. 4th, 2006 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFinally someone plugged LJ back in!
That was just bad.
And not everything looks quite worky now even.
Instead of LJ I did reading books.
Ibsen, A Doll's House
Have now read the chapters in the book about it that are about the Drama Text and Translation. The first chapter takes 50/170 pages. This was the chapter I was going to read before Torchwood. Note to self: size matters.
The Translation section especially had me drawing all over the play. I've underlined in a half dozen colors and made little notes on translation in the margins in two more.
I think the box of many pens is letting me go a bit overboard.
But this way the different colors are different themes! Green for stranger, and gold for education, and blue for honor, and a sort of bronze colour for the dance, and a different sort of bronze for correcting all the different words this translator uses that were the same word in the original and that the other book says should be 'guide', which works very well, so I don't know why it wasn't always used.
I'm getting lots of useful interesting out of it now.
It is comparing lots of different versions so the bit where it acts like it has final say is annoying me much less.
And also I can see their point more often.
Now totally unrelated things I'd put in their own post if I actually believed LJ would reliably be there for other posts:
Thought on DW and TW and themey connections:
End of Doctor Who season 2 was somewhat unsatisfying
because it didn't pay off it's own themes
but reading comment threads from the USA people are picking up themes
like
have to carry the (bad) wolf, loneliness, power of a god to go back and put right, everything ends
and the hubris thing: paid off as Torchwood
maybe all those keywords apply somewhere else and we get to watch them -
maybe DW season 2 works better if seen as setup or first face for Torchwood?
the face thing - see my Janus obsession. Different perspective, see other face.
Also: Jack and guns
Gun porn with Gwen
+
Gun somewhere concealed while naked
=
kinky!
Also, on DW when they got nicked out of the TARDIS iirc they were just having an ordinary day.
Meaning that, in order for Jack to still have that gun on him while naked that one time, he'd have to have it there all the time, even ordinary days.
Meaning Jack wanders around with a gun somewhere we "don't want to know" *all the time*.
... And then does gun porn ...
Dude has some serious crosswires there.
;-)
... Either that, or the concealed carry involved some seriously high tech, like the invisible lift or bigger on the inside stuff.
Now I want to have more interesting thoughts.
I was thinking what you'd have to do to A Doll's House to make it all men.
Big problem is the bit where she has to get someone else to sign for her loan. Who has to do that now?
If there's no women in the story then there's no patriarchal oppresion, which might be really missing the point.
And if they're all men then the children bit gets tricky to include.
And then there's the servants.
So there's a lot of stuff that is very specific to that time and those characters and those genders.
But there's other stuff that doesn't have to be. I mean, a bloke acting like Nora acts would be acting very queer, but that doesn't make it impossibly implausible.
... Why I always got to read things sideways?
:eyeroll:
Anyway, more book now.
That was just bad.
And not everything looks quite worky now even.
Instead of LJ I did reading books.
Ibsen, A Doll's House
Have now read the chapters in the book about it that are about the Drama Text and Translation. The first chapter takes 50/170 pages. This was the chapter I was going to read before Torchwood. Note to self: size matters.
The Translation section especially had me drawing all over the play. I've underlined in a half dozen colors and made little notes on translation in the margins in two more.
I think the box of many pens is letting me go a bit overboard.
But this way the different colors are different themes! Green for stranger, and gold for education, and blue for honor, and a sort of bronze colour for the dance, and a different sort of bronze for correcting all the different words this translator uses that were the same word in the original and that the other book says should be 'guide', which works very well, so I don't know why it wasn't always used.
I'm getting lots of useful interesting out of it now.
It is comparing lots of different versions so the bit where it acts like it has final say is annoying me much less.
And also I can see their point more often.
Now totally unrelated things I'd put in their own post if I actually believed LJ would reliably be there for other posts:
Thought on DW and TW and themey connections:
End of Doctor Who season 2 was somewhat unsatisfying
because it didn't pay off it's own themes
but reading comment threads from the USA people are picking up themes
like
have to carry the (bad) wolf, loneliness, power of a god to go back and put right, everything ends
and the hubris thing: paid off as Torchwood
maybe all those keywords apply somewhere else and we get to watch them -
maybe DW season 2 works better if seen as setup or first face for Torchwood?
the face thing - see my Janus obsession. Different perspective, see other face.
Also: Jack and guns
Gun porn with Gwen
+
Gun somewhere concealed while naked
=
kinky!
Also, on DW when they got nicked out of the TARDIS iirc they were just having an ordinary day.
Meaning that, in order for Jack to still have that gun on him while naked that one time, he'd have to have it there all the time, even ordinary days.
Meaning Jack wanders around with a gun somewhere we "don't want to know" *all the time*.
... And then does gun porn ...
Dude has some serious crosswires there.
;-)
... Either that, or the concealed carry involved some seriously high tech, like the invisible lift or bigger on the inside stuff.
Now I want to have more interesting thoughts.
I was thinking what you'd have to do to A Doll's House to make it all men.
Big problem is the bit where she has to get someone else to sign for her loan. Who has to do that now?
If there's no women in the story then there's no patriarchal oppresion, which might be really missing the point.
And if they're all men then the children bit gets tricky to include.
And then there's the servants.
So there's a lot of stuff that is very specific to that time and those characters and those genders.
But there's other stuff that doesn't have to be. I mean, a bloke acting like Nora acts would be acting very queer, but that doesn't make it impossibly implausible.
... Why I always got to read things sideways?
:eyeroll:
Anyway, more book now.
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Date: 2006-11-07 02:33 am (UTC)You do know that Janus appears in a few of my Buffy fics, right?