tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post8927862721481567957..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: "DIVERGENT" Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-66423639982201079752014-12-27T15:25:51.577-06:002014-12-27T15:25:51.577-06:00mike (again) ~ Well, let's say personal prefe...mike (again) ~ Well, let's say personal preference led by what Wiki calls recognised varieties of sophistication: "cultural sophistication or intellectual sophistication". (I must hide this from the eyes of anyjazz - I can't be doing with any airs and graces it might bring on!) ;-)<br /><br />I'm often accused of locking myself into predetermined decisions too - anyjazz is always amazed when I take one look through the doors of a store, or at a rack of clothing, or the cover of a book, or a two-line synopsis of something or other, or the first chapter of a book, and declare it "NOT FOR ME!"<br /><br />"But how do you know?" he'll ask. "I just know!" is my response - and I always do. LOL!<br /><br />Like you I have certain lock-ins to Fixed signs (one planet in all of them). But I do have planets in Mutable and Cardinal signs too - so...a crazy mix-up.'<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-51491817861651393912014-12-27T12:54:21.726-06:002014-12-27T12:54:21.726-06:00LOL, Twilight...I wouldn't call it sophisticat...LOL, Twilight...I wouldn't call it sophistication (I'm rarely accused of that!), but instead, a personal preference. I often lock myself into predetermined decisions about something, without having the benefit of the actual experience. My fixed Scorpio stellium likes that, along with my Jupiter and Pluto, likewise in other fixed signs.<br /><br />Once in a while, I'll relinquish and allow my Mars in Sagittarius out of the box and I'll discover to my surprise that I enjoyed an impromptu romp in the unknown. Some of my favorite authors wrote books that I would never have believed were fitting to my tastes, but completely won me over once I indulged in their prose.<br /><br />Several months ago, I tried to find Donna Tartt's Pulitzer winner, "Goldfinch". Couldn't find it, so I settled for her first book, "The Secret History", though I very much questioned my decision based on the cover's description, which made me flinch. I couldn't put it down once I started and was very sorry it ended. I did the same thing with Clive Barker's macabre writing several years ago, but I've read every book of his now, and have enjoyed each, regardless of the blood and raunch. Go figure.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-59226208027891237562014-12-27T11:03:32.555-06:002014-12-27T11:03:32.555-06:00mike ~ "Trite and contrived" would be th...mike ~ "Trite and contrived" would be the appropriate verdict for more mature members of <i>Divergent's</i> audiences to arrive at. I'll accept that, while still finding the film interesting myself (maybe I still have a way to go before reaching your and anyjazz's level of (ahem)...sophistication. ;-) (Titters).<br /><br />Yep, the world's a lunatic asylum - The Cheshire Cat was absolutely correct when he said "We're all mad here..."<br /><br />Oh good - you'll be able to let us know about "Big Eyes" - it'll never reach our cinema here, but we might get to see it via DVD or Netflix or whatever. I hope you enjoy the theatre experience. There were some 30 or more years when I didn't ever enter a cinema - but I greatly enjoyed re-visiting the experience - eventually. <br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-6889861924147256772014-12-27T09:51:28.083-06:002014-12-27T09:51:28.083-06:00I'm with anyjazz, and I haven't seen the m...I'm with anyjazz, and I haven't seen the movie. Sounds trite and contrived...another social order shockumentary pronouncement of the future that happens to parallel the pieces of our current lives if we all don't straighten-out.<br /><br />My Gemini ascendant already lives in a berserk world gone wrong thousands of years ago and my mood is for the lighter stuff. The REAL world dystopia of today is burdensome enough. The one nice outcome of the book-movie versions of future dystopia is that there is typically a resolving outcome that allows a heroic leap forward for humans. The older I become, the more I see this Earthly paradise as an unresolvable Dante's Inferno.<br /><br />I'm excited about attending a real theater movie! A neighbor and I are going to see "Big Eyes" in a week or two...after kids are back in school and adults finish the holidays. This will be the first movie-on-the-big-screen for me in many years...maybe nine or ten years. Wish me luck.mikenoreply@blogger.com