Jamie is more an antique Roman than a Dane. He is straight and
slender, and more than common tall. He is ill at reckoning, but he
knows a hawk from a handsaw and is advised what he says, neither
disturbed with the effect of wine nor heady-rash, provoked with raging
ire. He is an unfee'd lawyer, but not covetous for gold. He is a foe
to tyrants. He is not gamesome, and does lack some part of that quick
spirit that is in Antony. He loves not wisely but too well. He is a
better scholar than he thought he was, so he'll call for pen and ink
and write his mind.
- 2013-08-27 21:35 - On flash-forwards - link Apparently flash-forwards are the new flash-backs nowadays... whatever that means.
- 2013-08-24 21:35 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link I think Hush, hush must be the same thing — can there really be more than one person who would think that's a good place for a comma?
- 2013-08-24 15:27 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link Oops, didn't realize you'd already posted that one! I tried doing a search of the site to see whether any of these had already been mentioned but the ferrets were a bit wonky earlier (or maybe it was just my computer).
- 2013-08-24 11:36 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link So there's a Vampire Academy film coming out next year and apparently also a Fallen film expected. Meanwhile Rachel Caine has <a href...
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2013-08-11 23:49 - A Cornetto With an Odd Aftertaste -
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Yeah, I think part of the trouble with interpreting which scenario is better is that the evidence presented by the film seems implausible both ways. Not only does the fatality rate of the 'let the Network keep doing its thing' option seem ridicul...
- 2013-08-10 20:52 - A Cornetto With an Odd Aftertaste - link I had similar dissatisfied feelings about the messages of the film. As a piece of minute-by-minute entertainment I enjoyed it — there was some great verbal and character-based humour in the early sections and by the time the sci-fi bit of the plot s...
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2013-07-27 19:09 - A Rowling In the Nest -
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I was reading through the comments and took a break to look up Seraphina on Goodreads, and what should I see when I signed in but—
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- 2013-07-17 21:06 - Frictional (So Far) - link Goodness, a review of one of the embarrassingly small number of games I've actually played! I wouldn't normally have gone for a horror game but Amnesia came in a recent Humble Bundle and I enjoyed it. The scares are pretty effective and the atmosp...
- 2013-06-15 15:55 - It’s Guys Like You Mickey - link I had a lot of thoughts about this and started writing them in a comment but then I thought that, being a civil servant and having worked in the Department for Education not too long ago, I probably shouldn't. But in reference this this — <...
- 2013-04-27 18:22 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 10 - Coriolanus - link Yes, I'd heard it was less Rossiterean, so hopefully less distracting. It was very noticeable on stage.
- 2013-04-27 15:07 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 10 - Coriolanus - link Sorry I'm late! Yeah, showing your wounds was an actual thing in electoral campaigns. There's a story about one time when a candidate was doing it and had a toga malfunction that he then turned to his advantage by making an inspiring speech along the lin...
- 2012-12-18 23:21 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 9 - As You Like It - link (Also I do think it's a strong possibility that the 'lion attack' story is something Orlando and Oliver cook up between them to impress / worry Rosalind. What with Oliver having until very recently been all eeevil and scheming, and Orlando being plainly t...
- 2012-12-18 23:14 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 9 - As You Like It - link This is one of my favourite Shakespeare comedies (out of the, er, two or three Shakespeare comedies I've actually seen). It's just really playful and winky. Also it was I think probably the first Shakespeare play I ever saw — I was about ten years ...
- 2012-10-21 00:17 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 7 - King John - link I suspect What Everyone Knows About King John has also been reinforced by Ivanhoe, which seems (and I say this on the basis of never having read the book but having seen a TV version many years ago) to exactly reproduce the Robin Hood caricature of ...
- 2012-09-27 23:33 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 6 - Troilus and Cressida - link So it turns out I've seen stage productions of a surprisingly large number of these obscure Shakespeares... Whatever Charles Grey found in the text that made him play Pandarus as Kenneth Williams sounds like what David Bamber found in the one I sa...
- 2012-09-20 14:09 - The Astronauts at the End of Time - link I've just read The rituals of infinity for no better reason than that I seem to have acquired a yellowed second-hand copy in circumstances I no longer remember, and quite enjoyed it. Having then thought, 'Ah, I expect Arthur must have brained the f...
