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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland ** Image ID #1701066 Unavailable **   |
| "Blogging Circle of Friends " DAY 1964: April 2, 2018 Prompt: Poetry? Yes or No. Why or Why not. Poetry was never the chosen medium for me to express myself. I always needed the forgiving flow of prose. I enjoy poetry however and have tremendous respect for authors who can pen it so effectively. I appreciate the lyrical quality of the poem but some of my favorites are freeform pieces that don't subscribe to more traditional stanzas and rules. I love TS Elliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", the collection of his poems that inspired the famous musical. Lewis Carroll is another favorite who's poems pepper one of my favorite pieces of literature, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Pablo Neruda's poems are beautiful in Spanish and when translated into English, are just as lovely and compelling.... I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. From Sonnet 17 by Pablo Neruda's In my opinion, poetry is a beautiful art form. It is a timeless and essential form of expression. "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" DAY 1567 Prompt--April 2, 2018 Prompt: What classic book would you love to have reviewed when it was first published? Why? Hands down it would have to be DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. I would have love to comment on his rich, lush language. As a sometimes writer of erotica, I would have loved to give homage to one of the pioneer's of the genre. Lawrence's portrayal of a strong women exploring her own sensuality despite a rigid society could also be declared as a brave piece of feminism as well. This book gave credence to idea of the female sexual identity. It is no surprise that it was banned, controversial for much more than just its beautifully crafted scenes of intimacy. I would have loved to be a voice of support for the book's merit and for this author's immense talent. |
| I don't watch much television that isn't accessible at odd hours via Netflicks. I've never been able to follow a show, wait for the new episode each week and watch it at it's designated airing time. This limits my television knowledge considerably. I do enjoy the escape of binge watching something darkly entertaining in the wee hours of an insomniacal night on occasion. The last bout of binging had me running through the series Penny Dreadful, which I think was originally a showtime series but conveniently the entire series run was available on Netflicks. It was a beautifully crafted show, lush and opulent and unapologetically Gothic. It took a run at classic horror and cast regulars included witches, werewolves and vampires. There was a particularly compelling theme regarding the flawed and fabulous Dr. Frankenstein and his equally engaging "monster". The writing was excellent, the characters so wonderfully fleshed out that their back stories were fascinating, even the ones well known already. The series centered around a main character, Vanessa, played exceptionally well by Eva Green. She is a devote woman with a compromised soul connected by a thread to an age-old evil. She wages a war both with the creatures of darkness and within herself. She is instantly engaging and her torment is the foundation for a series that series spins through blood-soaked conflicts, ill-fated love affairs, and brilliant subplots that arch across several episodes before some epic battle or conclusion. There is dread, there is tragedy but there is also love and, sometimes incomprehensibly, hope. This was a series about the monsters and legends you know but delivers the backstories and insights you have missed in an stunning and often visceral way. Not a fan of slasher-level blood and gusts, even the brutality and gore are so artfully crafted that I could forgive some of the series more over the top moments like when the Frankenstein monster reveal comes at the expense of a minor character's shocking demise. This is a a particularly brutal death scene that you never suspect is coming and your shock is clearly matched by the good doctor's own. Moments like this are not uncommon and you get the feeling early on that even the show's most key characters may not be entirely safe from one episode to the next. Ultimately, Penny Dreadful rings true to the origins of it's name, the 19th century British booklets that were circulated around, containing sensationalized and often scandalous fiction featuring sex and horror. The television series delivers plenty of both, in a decadent and indulgent fashion. In short, I found it fresh and remarkably well done. The acting is first rate, the costumes and stage designs are incredible. Victorian age London is recreated with amazing detail from the lavish homes and city streets to the back alleys and subterranean tunnels. The show was cancelled after the third season finale, the show's creature having felt that Vanessa's story had been fully expressed and concluded. It was an ambitious series that seemed to spare no expense one set design and special effects. It had to be very expensive to produce. At the end I agreed and felt satisfied that Vanessa's story had been told. I appreciated the writers also attempting to leave us in a good place after keeping us so often mired in darkness and tragedy. |
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