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Post by kitty on Oct 16, 2013 21:21:34 GMT
More good news! Can't wait!
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Post by germanlady on Nov 22, 2013 6:57:14 GMT
Got my first Christmas present: My CD-Box Dark Side arrived yesterday !!! I love Christmas. I love Rufus' work. And ...
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Post by kygal on Nov 22, 2013 11:21:30 GMT
Enjoy Germanlady!
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Post by ginny on Nov 22, 2013 19:24:57 GMT
Got my first Christmas present: My CD-Box Dark Side arrived yesterday !!! I love Christmas. I love Rufus' work. And ... Hey! That's unfair! whistlingIt hasn't even been officially released yet. Right? Mine is expected to arrive sometime next week. (Pouts ) How's the box? Will our dilemmas be resolved? Any nice pics included?
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Post by germanlady on Nov 25, 2013 18:31:01 GMT
How's the box? Will our dilemmas be resolved? Any nice pics included? It is a real book where the CD with the play is upfront, followed by the English text, plus the CD with 9 translations in the back. Just two more small pics, but no Rufus. The booklet definitely helps, the German translation will be another hint, but I think the play still leaves room for interpretation. Need to listen to it, again.
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Post by kygal on Nov 26, 2013 11:16:19 GMT
What...no Rufus pic. Thanks for the info GL.
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Post by rumantic on Nov 26, 2013 17:16:55 GMT
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Post by nell on Nov 26, 2013 20:16:54 GMT
Thanks rumantic. I just edited to amend the link.
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Post by rumantic on Nov 27, 2013 14:39:48 GMT
Thank you...I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.
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Post by ginny on Nov 28, 2013 11:22:36 GMT
I can see only one way to find out the right answer: I am ready to offer a handful of Smarties for the Boy's last line where he speaks about Kant's philosophy and the transcendental knowledge. "Being a person is respect because you’re not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips. You’re a human person and humanness is not like something there can be different amounts of. It’s maxed out from the start. Total respect. Every time." What is the mysterious sentence here, at 7:11? Yummy! Who wants the reward? Have the Smarties gone stale? I think it says, "Kill one, kill a train of them. You're just seeing the transcendental is all." I think he's saying that Kant would have said that killing one person (by diverting the train) is no different from or better than killing a trainful of people, since all humans have the same value. I have no idea what the bit about transcendental means. I even tried this plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental/ but it just made me angry, like reading philosophy usually does. I received my set to and to kill all the existential uncertainty for those that haven't (yet) received the CD: according to the text the boy is saying BTW, the CD is not the version that got played on the radio. I wonder why they made a new one. I noticed the sound was better than on the radio (internet) version, or at least at first, maybe I got used to it later on. But Emily's mum got left out (kind of the point of the whole play) and Emily herself had one line less to say. (I'm a bit worried I noticed this...) On the other hand, the Pink Floyd lines that got cut remain so, but turn up in the paper text. Just like all kind of exciting instructions: Which would be nice if they had included either the original album or if they had divided the play into tracks and adapted the time code mentions to fit. But it's one track only and me going at time code 15.37 or so. Was I the only one to expect a long essay discussing this radio play included in the book? Or photos? The introduction to Rock 'n' Roll is pages long and I was hoping for some background on Darkside too.
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Post by kygal on Dec 3, 2013 11:23:20 GMT
Thanks for the info Rumantic and Ginny.
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Post by rueful on Feb 4, 2014 18:09:53 GMT
Have the Smarties gone stale? I think it says, "Kill one, kill a train of them. You're just seeing the transcendental is all." I received my set to and to kill all the existential uncertainty for those that haven't (yet) received the CD: according to the text the boy is saying Thanks for the correction, Ginny. It makes even less sense to me now. Sorry for the belated reaction, somehow I missed this post. I can understand them rerecording it (might have something to do with the improved sound you mentioned) but it is odd that they changed the content. (And don't be worried that you noticed the changes. It just means you're deep. ) This review doesn't focus on the production but instead on the play, especially in the context of Stoppard's other work. I thought it was interesting.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Feb 4, 2014 20:29:19 GMT
That's an interesting review, Rueful - thank you! (The author is wrong in his assertion at the end, though, that "radio theatre, even in England, is far from de rigueur." BBC Radio 4 has long had drama in its schedule every day, often several times a day, and even Radio 3, which is predominantly a classical music channel, has a fair amount. Rufus's back-catalogue of audio work proves Brice Ezell wrong! )
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Post by kygal on Feb 5, 2014 11:29:38 GMT
Thanks Rueful.
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Post by kissmekate on Feb 5, 2014 15:44:42 GMT
Nice review! Thanks for posting, rueful.
The beauty of Stoppard’s writing, however, is that he never feels like he’s mounting a take-down of a particular line of thought—though Darkside offers a compelling case that fleshed out character development is always more interesting than the bean counting of ethical casuistries. Just as he has done in the past, Stoppard is more interested in opening eyes than converting minds, and all the better for it.
That's exactly what I loved about both "Arcadia" and "Darkside". (To my big shame, I still haven't yet got around to reading "Rock'n'Roll".)
I agree with GE2 re radio plays in the UK. I wish we had such a wonderful culture of radio plays over here!
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