From August 15 “The Great Gatsby”
I finally decided to actually read “The Great Gatsby.”
I am not the least bit sorry I have now done so, but I have never run across such a bunch of distastefully written characters in all my other reading; and in this I include Holden Caufield ( distastefully andbadly written / “The Catcher in the Rye” in general is a waste of paper).
Anyone decent would have stood out in “The Great Gatsby” like a sore thumb, and I don’t remember anyone. Even the maid mentioned in passing is noted only because she had the “decency” (my assessment; not in Fitzgerald’s description) to open the window before spitting into the garden.
Other side characters are summed up equally distastefully with equally short descriptions.
As I said, I’m not the least bit sorry I’ve finally read it, but it’s my opinion that Fitzgerald was really down on the human race when he wrote it.
P.S.
I could have sworn that this was the cartoon posted by nighthawks, which I was going to watch, when I first looked in.
1938 is the copyright year, and if there was any “code” in effect for cartoons at that time, it was as liberal as Canada’s present, and probably future after September, governing party.
P.P.S.
If I remember properly, the people behind “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” were sued by Disney for misuse of “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
@Alexi: I think this might be what you were thinking of?
“The play’s title, which alludes to the English novelist Virginia Woolf, is also a reference to the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” from Walt Disney’s animated version of The Three Little Pigs. Because the rights to the Disney song are expensive, most stage versions, and the film, have Martha sing to the tune of “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”, a melody that fits the meter fairly well and is in the public domain. In the first few moments of the play, it is revealed that someone sang the song earlier in the evening at a party, although who first sang it (Martha or some other anonymous party guest) remains unclear. Martha repeatedly needles George over whether he found it funny.”
[from Wikipedia: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
under the sub-heading: Inspirations ]
(Interesting side note: that movie was filmed in Northampton and Southampton Massachusetts. It was a big deal that Taylor and Burton were in the area for several weeks. I remember that even though I was young at the time.)
Oh Alexi… not to criticise, but in the interest of discussion, I wish you would say “in my opinion,” or “I think that”…
I like to think that’s what you mean anyway… when you casually discard literature that has stood the test of time and public opinion, and has so often been hailed and cited by other famous writers.
It may be your first reading of the Great Gatsby, but it’s not a new book.
…
Yes, Fitzgerald was rather down on the human race… That’s his point, not a criticism of his literary skill.
If you want upbeat, I don’t suggest reading his work.
He manages, with dialogue and characterization, to portray the ennui and vacancy of spirit that imbue a certain segment of the jazz age and its denizens…
While there are good times, there are also selfishness, aimlessness, and other not very admirable traits… there’s a certain amount of self loathing included, as well. But to me, it was a fascinating read…. though I was probably 20 when I read it.
…
As for Catcher in the Rye… Holden Caulfield spoke to me, in my late teens, as he did, even more, to the befuddled post world war II generation of teens quite a bit before me.
Alienated youth, disillusioned by a recent world war… no acceptance of “youth culture”, isolated from each other with little communication, certainly no internet… they made up their own universes, and yes, some of it seems overwrought and foolish to us now…
It’s not a book that rings very true for mature adults in the 21st century… But it did, to a degree, when I was young enough to feel disconnected from adulthood.
Though Salinger meant it for adults, it was young people who drove its popularity and made it a classic… It’s still one of the best selling books of all time, and youths are still engaging with it even though the world is so different now.
Adolescence will probably always be confusing and lonely…
I don’t expect Salinger to go out of print or stop selling any time soon…
Nor do I expect Holden’s angst to have much to offer you or me any more. Whether alienated or comfortable with the process, then or still… we nonetheless already grew up, somehow.
At the lower left of my Cleo & Co page is a green circle with a word balloon in it (with just 3 green lines). It encourages me to comment. It obscured one of the differences.
Enjoyed the Temps and all the cartoons, above and below this comment.
I listen to the Beatles station on XM as my default bin my car, but I have had enough of “My Sweet Lord.” I mean, I get it already. George has a few good songs but as a writer I just don’t think he was up there with John and Paul. Great guitarist, though.
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3 years ago
Stop the presses! Alert the media! I think I have found all nine differences in under 5 minutes. If so, this is a momentous occasion for me. The frequency with which I can execute this feat is rapidly waning. It may cease to be even an annual event soon.
NEWS FLASH! the latest weather alert from COVFEFE Weather network has
determined that Hurricane Henri will swoop over and attack the entire
upper midwest, parts of the south and Canada and all of the Great Lakes.
Not to cause you undue anxiety or anything, but that red dot in the top right is where the National Hurricane Center is predicting the center of Henri will be at 8:00 a.m. your time Monday morning.
Well, this is just where I don’t want to be: in a 236-yr. old, ramshackle, white elephant kind of house that the Big Bad Wolf could blow down with half a breath, with Max and another little dog that I’m dog-sitting for the week. In fact, my friends are in their RV in Bourne, MA (which is on the south side of Cape Cod….also predicted to get hit really hard!).
Back in the 80’s, we were supposed to be in line for a hard hit from a hurricane with wide devastation predicted. They let us out of the office early and we all hurried home to hurricane-proof our properties. The storm died out about 30 miles before getting here. Fingers crossed that history repeats itself!!!
Sorry about the number of adds in this one, but i thought that vid people would like this.
They did what they set out to do for my monitor.
But it is colorful.
From August 15 “The Great Gatsby”
I finally decided to actually read “The Great Gatsby.”
I am not the least bit sorry I have now done so, but I have never run across such a bunch of distastefully written characters in all my other reading; and in this I include Holden Caufield ( distastefully and badly written / “The Catcher in the Rye” in general is a waste of paper).
Anyone decent would have stood out in “The Great Gatsby” like a sore thumb, and I don’t remember anyone. Even the maid mentioned in passing is noted only because she had the “decency” (my assessment; not in Fitzgerald’s description) to open the window before spitting into the garden.
Other side characters are summed up equally distastefully with equally short descriptions.
As I said, I’m not the least bit sorry I’ve finally read it, but it’s my opinion that Fitzgerald was really down on the human race when he wrote it.
P.S.
I could have sworn that this was the cartoon posted by nighthawks, which I was going to watch, when I first looked in.
1938 is the copyright year, and if there was any “code” in effect for cartoons at that time, it was as liberal as Canada’s present, and probably future after September, governing party.
P.P.S.
If I remember properly, the people behind “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” were sued by Disney for misuse of “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
@Alexi: I think this might be what you were thinking of?
“The play’s title, which alludes to the English novelist Virginia Woolf, is also a reference to the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” from Walt Disney’s animated version of The Three Little Pigs. Because the rights to the Disney song are expensive, most stage versions, and the film, have Martha sing to the tune of “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush”, a melody that fits the meter fairly well and is in the public domain. In the first few moments of the play, it is revealed that someone sang the song earlier in the evening at a party, although who first sang it (Martha or some other anonymous party guest) remains unclear. Martha repeatedly needles George over whether he found it funny.”
[from Wikipedia: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
under the sub-heading: Inspirations ]
(Interesting side note: that movie was filmed in Northampton and Southampton Massachusetts. It was a big deal that Taylor and Burton were in the area for several weeks. I remember that even though I was young at the time.)
you are correct……I changed my mind and posted Bugs Bunny instead….
now we have both!
Oh Alexi… not to criticise, but in the interest of discussion, I wish you would say “in my opinion,” or “I think that”…
I like to think that’s what you mean anyway… when you casually discard literature that has stood the test of time and public opinion, and has so often been hailed and cited by other famous writers.
It may be your first reading of the Great Gatsby, but it’s not a new book.
…
Yes, Fitzgerald was rather down on the human race… That’s his point, not a criticism of his literary skill.
If you want upbeat, I don’t suggest reading his work.
He manages, with dialogue and characterization, to portray the ennui and vacancy of spirit that imbue a certain segment of the jazz age and its denizens…
While there are good times, there are also selfishness, aimlessness, and other not very admirable traits… there’s a certain amount of self loathing included, as well. But to me, it was a fascinating read…. though I was probably 20 when I read it.
…
As for Catcher in the Rye… Holden Caulfield spoke to me, in my late teens, as he did, even more, to the befuddled post world war II generation of teens quite a bit before me.
Alienated youth, disillusioned by a recent world war… no acceptance of “youth culture”, isolated from each other with little communication, certainly no internet… they made up their own universes, and yes, some of it seems overwrought and foolish to us now…
It’s not a book that rings very true for mature adults in the 21st century… But it did, to a degree, when I was young enough to feel disconnected from adulthood.
Though Salinger meant it for adults, it was young people who drove its popularity and made it a classic… It’s still one of the best selling books of all time, and youths are still engaging with it even though the world is so different now.
Adolescence will probably always be confusing and lonely…
I don’t expect Salinger to go out of print or stop selling any time soon…
Nor do I expect Holden’s angst to have much to offer you or me any more. Whether alienated or comfortable with the process, then or still… we nonetheless already grew up, somehow.
Cleo and Claude… dropped down into the depths of dinosaur days…
If remember correctly, they got there by way of an ill-advised button press … or at least, Claude did.
Did his faithful dog follow willingly? I don’t remember.
—
In any case, a large dinosaur lurks, whether out of curiosity, friendliness or hunger is anybody’s guess… but in case it’s that last thing…
let’s find some differences and get them home!
…
I thought we’d hear from a few more Puzzle People before I posted the solution, but oh well…
if everybody promises not to peek before trying hard to solve it….
you DO, don’t you?
I’ll go ahead and post it now,
….
I missed the moving speech balloon. I hate those.
That’s the one I missed, too. I don’t feel too bad about it.
Got them all pretty fast this time. – This classic was my first puzzle here!
Good to have you back! Stay healthy!
OK, the one I missed was under one of the page feature icons. I found all of the ones that weren’t obscured.
I’m trying to figure out what you mean so I can picture it.
No feature on my page ever obscures the actual post, including the cartoon…
Can you say any more about what it was on yours that infringed in the space?
At the lower left of my Cleo & Co page is a green circle with a word balloon in it (with just 3 green lines). It encourages me to comment. It obscured one of the differences.
Thanks for getting back to me.
Now I know what you mean…. and yes, that circle does occasionally lie on top of a bit of whatever is posted…
especially the puzzle, as it’s very wide.
…
I guess I didn’t think of it because it’s stationary when the rest of the page moves as one piece.
A tiny scroll of the puzzle and it covers a different spot, or none…
and the “flyout” banner, encouraging comments , is a rollover… only showing when the mouse cursor touches it.
I guess I pay no attention cos I just scroll away.
If it sits there, though, it could be a problem.
I missed an easy one (again). But do I get ‘make-up’ credit for the dinosaur sitting in the tree?
Well…. Okay… this time.
But for next time… It only counts if he isn’t doing it in both panels.
LOL
Seven this time. I’m slipping…
And i was looking right at one.
Several times.
(…sigh…)
Eight. Missed an easy one. *$%^&!
Enjoyed the Temps and all the cartoons, above and below this comment.
I listen to the Beatles station on XM as my default bin my car, but I have had enough of “My Sweet Lord.” I mean, I get it already. George has a few good songs but as a writer I just don’t think he was up there with John and Paul. Great guitarist, though.
Stop the presses! Alert the media! I think I have found all nine differences in under 5 minutes. If so, this is a momentous occasion for me. The frequency with which I can execute this feat is rapidly waning. It may cease to be even an annual event soon.
.
Honey bee
You can just feel the anticipation!
@StillTheBelle – Henri’s coming! Better duck!
(Sponsored Content)
Wal-Mart Northampton has everything you need to hunker down in hurricanes!
Do you think praying that Henri will die before hitting WMass will help? Seriously…
That S in the top black circle looks like it is centered right over the house of somebody I know who lives “near Belchertown.”
.
NEWS FLASH! the latest weather alert from COVFEFE Weather network has
determined that Hurricane Henri will swoop over and attack the entire
upper midwest, parts of the south and Canada and all of the Great Lakes.
Laugh of the day!!!
Not to cause you undue anxiety or anything, but that red dot in the top right is where the National Hurricane Center is predicting the center of Henri will be at 8:00 a.m. your time Monday morning.
Head to Wal-Mart now!
.
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Well, this is just where I don’t want to be: in a 236-yr. old, ramshackle, white elephant kind of house that the Big Bad Wolf could blow down with half a breath, with Max and another little dog that I’m dog-sitting for the week. In fact, my friends are in their RV in Bourne, MA (which is on the south side of Cape Cod….also predicted to get hit really hard!).
Back in the 80’s, we were supposed to be in line for a hard hit from a hurricane with wide devastation predicted. They let us out of the office early and we all hurried home to hurricane-proof our properties. The storm died out about 30 miles before getting here. Fingers crossed that history repeats itself!!!
I have to admit I’m really nervous about this.
Thanks for the updates, RT.
Fingers crossed for you! ❤
Keep us posted, Stel!!!!
Good thoughts and prayers are being sent your way.
Stay safe.
Wow! Without electronics. Those model guys were good!
Gee thanks!
Thinking best thoughts for you from Michigan.
Keep us posted – if you can!
You will be fine, Stel. That house has been through worse.
Good luck! Hopefully we hear from you tomorrow.
Thanks, PC ! Appreciate it!
I hope you hear from me, too!!!
@nighthawks – It pains me deeply to write this, but Sonny Chiba died on Thursday, of Covid. He was 82.
R.I.P. “Hattori Hanzo.”
O-Ren Ishii: “That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword.”
Hattori Hanzo: Warm sake? VERRRRY GOOOD!
Woohoo! got ’em all in a very short period of time. Thanks for the beginner level NH
Good Saturday morning Cleo Puzzlers. Still can’t go outside. Too much humidness and probably smoke.
Why you would need a blowout for a Brazilian is beyond me.
And… Old Pharts Day!
Y’all stay safe. (((((HuGz!)))))
I love the look of Cleo in this one. She actually looks like she’s listening.
Sorry about the number of adds in this one, but i thought that vid people would like this.
They did what they set out to do for my monitor.
But it is colorful.