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While watching Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises I began to notice oddly familiar plot points. The storming of Gotham prison, the revolt against the ruling elite, the sham courts and summary death sentences were not taken from comics I had read, but from assigned reading in High School Sophomore English class. What no reviewers, neither friends or media critics up until then had mentioned to me was Christopher Nolan's inspiration for the movie's storyline: Charles Dicken's classic novel A Tale of Two Cities.
After the movie, I googled the words "Nolan, Dickens" and one or two articles (one linked above). But when I mentioned it to friends (most who saw the movie had not read Dicken's book) , they had not picked up on the literary allusion. I also began to ponder how, in fact, the Batman story is perfectly and undeniably Dickensian. Dickens' stories are all about orphans like Oliver Twist, Pip, (like young Bruce Wane), and cruel environments like Industrial Age, Victorian London, Revolutionary Paris (and Gotham City). I could go on but I predict that when TDKR comes out on DVD, there will be a lot of High School English Classes showing it for it's literary value.
In a related theme, Director Mike Newell who bought us movies Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire and Prince of Persia is has finished his version of Dickens' Great Expectations. The movie trailer is stunning. Since Nolan has renewed my consciousness about Dickens' terrific stories, I'm as stoked to see it as I was to see The Dark Knight Rises.
Cinder block homes in Caracas' poor Petare neighborhood are seen back dropped by high rise apartments in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006. Overwhelmingly re-elected in recent presidential elections, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez begins a new term with the challenge of attending the growing needs of the poor, who feel unsatisfied with current crime levels, unemployment, poverty, and lack of decent housing. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
La Fiesta de San Nicolás (en neerlandés: Sinterklaas1 ) se celebra cada 5 de diciembre en los Países Bajos, y el 6 de diciembre en Bélgica y en algunas antiguas colonias neerlandesas. En menor medida se celebra también en Luxemburgo (como Kleeschen), Austria, Suiza, Alemania, Polonia y en la República Checa (como Mikuláš).
La figura central de la fiesta es San Nicolás (en neerlandés: Sint-Nicolaas, de donde se deriva la forma popular Sinterklaas), un personaje legendario que trae regalos a los niños el día de la fiesta. Los nombres de Sinterklaas y Ámsterdam vienen unidos desde el año 343.2 Según la tradición, San Nicolás viene de España, y todos los años desde 1934 (excepto en el año 1944) llega a las costas holandesas en un barco de vapor, y una vez desembarcado monta en un caballo blanco llamado Amerigo y viene acompañado de unos ayudantes de raza negra llamados Pedritos los Negros (en neerlandés: Zwarte Pieten),3 que lanzan pepernoten (unas galletitas) a la gente.4 Se trata de una de las tradiciones más importantes de Holanda, la llegada en barco de Sinterklaas se retransmite en directo por la televisión holandesa.5
El mito se basa fundamentalmente en la figura de San Nicolás de Bari (que fue obispo de Myra, en la actual Turquía, en el siglo IV), aunque contiene también elementos de origen pagano: existen paralelismos con el dios Odín, que monta un caballo blanco (Sleipnir, el caballo de ocho patas, con el que vuela por el cielo). San Nicolás también monta un caballo blanco sobre los tejados de las casas, llevando sus símbolos episcopales: una capa roja, una mitra y un cayado dorado.
Originalmente la figura de San Nicolás fue reverenciada solamente en el este. Sólo a partir del siglo XIII se convirtió el día de su santo en una festividad reconocida. Ya en aquel tiempo existía en Utrecht la costumbre de llenar los zapatos de cuatro niños pobres con monedas.
Tras la rebelión de las provincias holandesas contra la Corona española, los predicadores calvinistas intentaron eliminar la festividad de San Nicolás, al considerar que contenía demasiados elementos paganos. Sin embargo sus esfuerzos no tuvieron éxito, debido a que la fiesta era extremadamente popular incluso entre la población protestante.
15/366 - Expectations
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
--Hans Christian Anderson
Flowers make me so happy!! Especially flowers in the winter.
Last weekend, I went on a walk to take some tree pictures. Because the weather here has been very cold, I was going to photograph things that were not dependent on the season to be beautiful. I took my photos and went on a few walks that day, luckily with my camera.
On the way home, I stopped at a park nearby, hoping to see some jackrabbits. I was walking down the paths, alone except for a timid roadrunner. (No rabbits.) As I walked around, I noticed a few patches of desert plants, which to me were beautiful.
I had not expected to take flower shots. After all, it is the winter in the desert. (Not my busiest photograph season! By choice, I must admit.) But my "negative" expectations did not change what simply was. Nature did not stop itself and say, "No one expects us to do this, so lets sit this one out." No. Nature satisfies its own wants and needs. Nature simply does because it can.
I wonder what else I might have missed because my expectations were too low.
I will work on keeping my expectations high enough so that I can see the beauty around me, no matter what the season.
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
--William Cullen Bryant
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
--George Santayana
Something about the white plastic container displayed here in trio makes me (20-something American male) think "laundry detergent" more than its actual contents (yogurt). This could have to do with the anticipated consumption behavior for this yogurt's consumers - a volume and frequency such that eq ...
I came across a crate on the street a few days ago containing fifteen volumes of a century-year-old complete set of the works of Charles Dickens. They're pretty beat up, as you can see, but I couldn't bear to let good literature go to the dust-heap. It's just the spines and covers that are tattered--all pages are accounted for.
A few more from the recent wander around the edinburgh fringe. quite taken with some of the adverts this year :o)
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This seagull had clearly learned that people ate up here! You can see clearly how far we'd come that day... all the way from the flat fields behind the beach.
Chimp at Monkeyworld. I eagerly await the "self portrait" jokes.
Make big, and gaze upon our closest living relative.
In the unlikely event of a creationist browsing my stream, no, this doesn't mean we evolved from them, so no, there is no mystery in them still being around.
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. -- Dickens