Oct. 9th, 2017

Busy Day

Oct. 9th, 2017 03:05 pm
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Visiting a local supermarket today to do a covert shop before 5 pm.I also just picked up a couple of shops in Tunbridge Wells for tomorrow morning - both with increased fees,a total of forty quid in all ,with one of them being a coffee shop,and i also have a Spoons visit before hot footing it to do my cinema visit.

Hence early start for me.
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Not coming till next year but this new season of the X Files looks pretty spectacular. Beyond all the hype the inside scoop seems to be that this new series will be the best yet and certainly better than that last season online as it will be on the Fox TV network.

THE X-FILES | Season 11 Trailer

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Coming sooner though is this one - It has Wonder Woman again -

JUSTICE LEAGUE: "Steppenwolf" Reveal Trailer (Extended) 2017




And this one as well -

THOR RAGNAROK Trailer 2 (Extended) Marvel 2017


Sense ...

Oct. 9th, 2017 10:27 pm
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Picked up a few cheap DVD's and one of them i watched already is based on the Julian Barnes book - "The Sense of An Ending" - as i have read the book.I loved the film and it is very faithful to the book. Now it makes me want to read the book again.

The Sense of an Ending Official Trailer 1 (2017)



The other DVD is the classic BBC TV version of The Hitch hikers Guide To The Galaxy. So Arthur dent want to listen to some Vogon poetry ...

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Simone de Beauvoir "Letters to Sartre" (Vintage Classics)





Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908-1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist, who was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism.

These letters were published posthumously in 1990. The editor wrote in his Introduction, “the publication of her correspondence… demonstrated the radical incompatibility of her and Sartre’s whole conception of free human relations… with the somewhat rose-tinted, soft-edged public image she had herself at times helped to create… What provoked the outraged reaction of so many to the posthumous publication of these letters? At least three strands converged here. First, traditional sexism… Secondly… ideological Reaction: the posturing of intellectual yuppiedom… More significant was a third strand made up of former of still-would-be sympathizers, who now felt De Beauvoir had revealed herself in her letters to be dismayingly OTHER than the idealized image of her they had so long been nurturing…De Beauvoir’s letters to Sartre … are love letters … and they are concurrently the unsparing account of those other---‘contingent’---loves allowed for in her pact with Sartre… De Beauvoir herself is a validly heroic figure… [who] produced a work which stands and will stand as the baseline of all aspirations for equality between the sexes in the modern world.” (Pg. vii-ix)


Those looking for philosophical sophistication in these letters will mostly go away disappointed; but for those wanting insight into De Beauvoir’s mind and personality, and for details of her relationship with Sartre---as well as with various other lovers (female and male)---this collection will be a “page-turner.”



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