31-01-2011, 05:38 PM
They (audio CDs, actually -- although I think I'm the last person in America to have a new car with a CD changer AND cassette deck; thank God for Bose and Nissan) have not. I received shipping (from the U.K.) confirmation, and I expect them to arrive this week.
I'm eager to play TTSS. It's difficult to imagine a dramatization that could top the brilliant editing and arc-within-arc structure of Arthur Hopcraft's original screen adaptation. So too Sir Alec's embodiment of George Smiley.
But man, I'm open to the possibilities.
If only Anne were here to listen with me.
Perhaps I should join the cue.
I'm eager to play TTSS. It's difficult to imagine a dramatization that could top the brilliant editing and arc-within-arc structure of Arthur Hopcraft's original screen adaptation. So too Sir Alec's embodiment of George Smiley.
But man, I'm open to the possibilities.
If only Anne were here to listen with me.
Perhaps I should join the cue.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene