Posted by floatingbridge on November 17, 2011, at 12:52:18
In reply to Re: the political climate you would like » floatingbridge, posted by Dinah on November 17, 2011, at 11:26:24
Oh. Sorry about needing risperdal. Otoh, I have been enjoying reading this thread. You have quite the head for history.
About the climate changes, I hadn't either, about the plague or the comet or other climate changes, (other websites list ocean current changes and such changes that are beyond my understanding measured by cave stalagmites?!). I do not know my history which is why I googled 1066 to see why someone might draw a line there.
I only read the Book of Judith in Old English once, and have forgotten just about everything about the language except that every single letter is pronouced unlike modern English. Our professor was such an enthusiast of the era before and during the writing of the manuscript (around 1025 or something) he made the that world seem pretty inhabitable and the genders by his theories had a fair amount of equality even if they did not have identical roles. I wish I had thrown over all I had studied and started Old English earlier because even though I am not gifted when it come to languages, OE was so enjoyable and relatively easy plus such an interesting window into history and language. And a finite number of texts to study :)
And it is beautiful read aloud....
I'll check out the young Indiana Jones. My son is seven, which might be the right age for some, but he knows very little about real war. It upsets him. He seems to need a lot of fantasy to make his suffering palatable. He has recently watched two of the star wars movies, I would call them the first and second (Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back). He manages this by running out of the room at certain key moments. His dad thinks this is fine. When he heard another child talk of what we refer to as a suicide bomber, he was deeply disturbed and came home, pumping me for information in that oblique way kids develop as they age. The real world insanity/logic of it was just too much for him. Of course, I am assuming that the Young Indiana Jones does not go into such depth. Yet light sabers and the Death Star blowing up do not upset him. I guess because it is couched in knights and nobility, and it's pretty obvious that Darth Vadar is the bad guy. Sort of. Because my son is fascinated by Anikin Skywalker's transformation into Vadar and back into Anikin upon his death.
This has nothing to do with politics now....
I dig a pony.
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