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[fflo]

"Kopfschmerz"? ich habe one, whatever the word is.

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm going to call your hormone guy (male or female) your criminologist.

i'm ALMOST at the end of the p. d. james The Lighthouse. trying to savor the last few chapters, as i've finally come to feel involved in the story, between the audio book and the book book. cops and docs have something in common in their work, as tv shows us. do you watch this show "house"? i resisted, and then i realized (duh!) that was bertie, that guy playing him. TOTALLY different persona, of course. just saw that HE has a novel out.

good luck with the forensics, or whatever they'll be doing to/with ya.

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that was me, of course

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[(Anonymous)]

i can be anon too. never read p.d. is that mystery? i've never watched "house" neither. bertie? do you mean your neighbor or my dog?

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yeah, p. d. is usually mystery, though she wrote children of men (the movie of which is now making something of a hit). and a memoir i read a good bit of before having to return it to the library. she has one main detective, adam dalgleish (well, with his underlings)--- a sensitive guy who's also a great poet (though you never read his poetry). there was a young female detective, cordelia grey, in an unsuitable job for a woman and the skull beneath the skin, both of which i'd recommend. but dalgleish is her central character.

one unusual thing about her mysteries (at least i presume it's somewhat unusual) is that justice isn't always served, at least not in tidy conventional ways. and sometimes not even otherwise, really. they have a sort of complicated morality. what i love them for are the delicious sentences. some of 'em you just have to read out loud. and, as time has gone on, i've been into dalgleish's private life. he's in love now, in his tortured yet glorious way. she's very understated in talking about his getting laid. or however she would refer to his sex life--- where the formality of the syntax represents discretion even more than the vocabulary/diction.

bertie is bertie wooster in the jeeves & wooster stories of p. g. wodehouse, adapted by the bbc in the '80s. funny stuff. i know birdie is spelled birdie! sheesh! i briefly thought "bertie" might be a good name for lizzie/trixie, cuz she was just a little bit like bertie, but then realized it sounds almost the same as your dog's name. well, exactly the same, in an american accent.

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I just saw an ad for her Children of Men. From the trailer on TV, the movie seems likes it's going to be quite different from the book. All I really saw were chase scenes.

Anyway--don't know if I should see that film (not that I see prett much any films until they're on DVD). Remember how depressingly fatalistic I got when I was reading the book? On the other hand, the apathy it produced in me was kinda refreshing and de-stressing (if not distressing).

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i DO have some recollection of it hitting you hard.

apathy as a good thing. apathy as detachment. i dunno. i'm still a little hung up on this unconnected v. detached thing. see long blathering comments from me over in shmizla.

p.s.

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'Children of Men' a Surprise Hit
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-01-09/film/6

and the fan-done trailer variation mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfs1UIKALQ

Re: p.s.

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(note: i don't approve of the disparaging figurative use of 'cunts' in the song; i approve of exalting figurative uses of 'cunts'.)

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i think bleak may be just what i need.

k****e k***ss once said afterhours snapped her out of a month-long depression. i liked that idea, even though i'm not sure i believe her.