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About Me
- Peter Tschirhart
- When I'm not trying to put bread on the table, I like to stop and wonder what it's all about. I love taking pictures, spending time with family and friends.I like to cook good food and share with the people around me.
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your poor dog. he needs therapy. i love the name Jacques, though. he's so cute.
so, you read Simpsons comics—that's deep! are you mocking me?
my eldest brother is the biggest Simpsons fan I know. i never liked it until i met my husband. now, i love it—but i think half the reason i like it is because i love to see how he laughs at it.
kind of like the reason i am such a huge fan of M*A*S*H—i used to watch it with my dad, and watching him laugh at the show was just as funny as watching the show and laughing myself.
FINE! don't tell me what you're reading! :)
Yes, I am mocking you, having a little fun. But I know that you can take a joke. I never intend on being mean spirited so if you ever perceive that I am it's either a problem with your perception or me not taking care in my tone.
I love reading, I have from my teenage years on. I'm not in the middle of reading anything now, so my comic book joke is not to far off the mark. I have a favourite writer by he's not the writer of my favourite book. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, if I owned a copy it would definitely sit on my top shelf. V.S. Naipaul is my favourite writer I've followed his work since my mid-twenties.
I keep a copy of Hamlet close at hand. Its the one play of Shakespeare that I know quite well, It's got it all, A ghost, madness, melancholy, unrequited love, revenge, comedy, lust for power. Forget Dr. House and Wilson, Hamlet and Horatio were the original bromance. Gertrude hearing of the death of Ophelia must be the most beautifully sad words ever written. I think that it was reenacted in one of your Green Gables movies, Anne Shirley floating down a creek in a leaky boat reciting lines from the play as she nearly drowns herself.
I'd like to hear you impression of The Great Divorce, its a book I've never read but I'm aware of it. When you read a lot you bump into books, you read references to them in other works.
I like to read fiction. I've always believe that great truths can be presented in what is not true.Think of Kafka's Metamorphosis, I don't believe that a young man can turn into a giant bug, but I believe there is no better way to describe what it might feel like to be alienated and rejected by your family for being the way you are.
I like our chats, they're a good stretcher of the imagination.
Oh and the spelling of Tchaikovsky, I didn't have a clue. When I made my first attempt the spell checker on my computer emitted an audible laugh.
:)
thanks.
i found this very interesting. love the House reference—one of my favorite shows. i have the first three seasons on DVD.
okay, i can take it if you mock me from time to time. especially now that i know there is no meanness behind it.
i wish i loved to read—i know very well that there is so much good stuff to read, but i just don't make it a priority. i love stories, but i must be a product of the instant gratification generation, for i'd rather watch a film about a story than read a book about it. not sure how many books you have, but my film collection would probably give it a run for its money. i could watch and/or talk about films all day—foreign films, classic films—really any.
so, i envy that you like to read. i've never read anything by Hemingway—i know, that's sad. i am intrigued by his life, though. and i know his nick name was Papa. i get points for that, right?
Naipaul—i've never heard of him. is that bad? is he well know, and i should know his name? if so, i feel dumb. :) is he still alive? i guess i could google his name, but it would be more fun finding out about him from you.
okay, i've seen a few productions of Hamlet. it is a great one—probably my favorite of any Shakespeare productions i've seen. the scene in Anne of Green Gables was Lady of Shallot (sp?). is that the same thing? that's one of my favorite scenes, actually. so you've seen it. i'm impressed. i mean, my brother is probably the biggest A of GG fan i have ever men (he loves red-heads), but i don't know of many other men who have seen it. so, i think that's kind of cool.
i look forward to reading The Great Divorce. i have only ever read his theological books—no fantasy/fiction (although i have seen films). my friend Michele is reading it (or did recently) and she had encouraged me to read it. i already owned it. i love C.S.Lewis so much, that i own almost all of his works, but have only read about one fifth of them. i figured i could pace myself over the years. :)
i'll let you know what i think. my impression probably won't sound very intellectual, but i give you my honest opinion. i just hope you can wait a year or two. :)
i guess i'll have to add Metamorphosis to my list. at least i'm familiar with Kafka. i'm not that illiterate.
lastly, i too like our chats very much.
I'm a big fan of film as well. Every Sunday afternoon my older sis would take us down to the Capital theatre in Galt and treat us to a matinee. My brother Paul and I were very young but I can clearly remember seeing a re-release of the Wizard of Oz. I loved the story, but the flying monkeys left me a nervous wreck. They were so freaky. I don't know a lot about the movies but I love to watch them.
V.S. Naipaul: Is a Trinidadian/Indian/British writer, and a great one at that. I think that he's been writing from the 50s till present. He's very prolific and has a large body of work, lots of travel writing. The Islamic world, India, Africa, the American south, His fiction has an auto biographical feel to it. He matured as the Brutish Empire was beginning to fall in upon itself. His writing tries to layout the colonial experience. His language is beautiful and his humour is very subtle and very human. It has a really light touch.
You could be forgiven for not knowing his work he's not been heavily promoted, I don't think that any of his material has made it into films. Twenty years ago I found the book A House for Mister Biswa in a used book shop, and I was hooked. when I read him I feel as if I am walking in the skin of his characters .
I'm not the only one whose taken notice of him, in 2001 he won the Noble Prize for Literature, not the blue ribbon at the Cambridge fall fair but not bad.
You do get 1 point for knowing that Hemingway was called Papa and you receive 10 bonus points for burning me on the Lady of Shallot bit.
I said Shakespeare and it was Tennyson. I missed it by three hundred years! I must redeem myself! Lord Tennyson's most famous poem may well be The Charge of the Light Brigade, it describes an ill fated cavalry charge during the Crimean war. At the end of this war the British had captured many large canons. In the 1850s or 60s one of these guns was presented to the Town of Galt for it's loyal service to the Empire. The Cannon now sits in our town square, I've known it all my life. Isn't that strange? the interconnectedness of everything?
i stayed up as long as i could on this New Year's Eve—now New Year's Day. i'm off to slumber land in a bit, but first i thought i would respond to your last comment.
your memories of trips to the matinée with sis and bro sound nice. are you the youngest? i am. well, that is to say, i am tied for last—i'm a twin, remember? the nicest thing about being the youngest was feeling protected by three older older siblings. anyway, i never remember feeling freaked out by the monkeys in Wizard . . . but there are plenty of other movies that freaked me out as a child. :)
okay, fan of films—what is your favorite film if you had to name one? again—curious.
Naipaul sound very interesting. I love subtle or even nonsubtle humor from a writer. that is one reason i love C.S.Lewis. his wit and humor are the biggest reason i enjoy reading him.
i'd like to look for A House for Mister Biswa and give it a sample read to see if it is something i would enjoy. what a gift to be able to make your reader feel as if they were the character(s) of your story.
my best friend just started a book club. i wish we lived closer so that i could attend even if i did not read the books. i think just listening to people talking about books would be so interesting. or maybe it just sounds so cosmopolitan and i just like the sound of it. ???
true story . . . i was playing Trivial Pursuit with my college roommate and her boyfriend and his friends. it was boys against girls. the boys were beating the girls badly, and we really needed to get an answer right. so the next question we got was "What was Ernest Hemingway's nickname?" I had ABSOLUTELY no idea. i really didn't. i was so ticked, 'cause i was sick of getting questions that were hard or that we had no clue about and them getting all the easy, obvious answers. i rolled my eyes and said very sarcastically, "I don't know—Papa." i was taking a complete stab in the dark. it was right. we were completely shocked, but tickled. we got a pie piece from it too. i can't remember if we won, but it sure felt good. to this day, i remember Ernest Hemingway's nickname. not sure, but that may be why i called my dad Papa. i don't remember when i started calling him that, but it's been as long as i can remember, so i think i started before that fateful Trivial Pursuit game. in fact, i think that is why i got the answer right—i just thought of the first nick-name that came to mind—my dad's. :)
okay, sorry for the long story about nothing significant. i'm obviously proud of that moment. :)
as far as Shakespeare/Tennyson goes, you could have just kept your mouth shut and i would have never been the wiser.
oh, well. that does not tell me that you do not know your authors, rather that you were not paying enough attention while watching the movie. :)
my only claim to fame in my hometown—where i grew up in Woodstock, IL—is that the movie Groundhog Day was filmed there. I got to meet Bill Murray, because when they were filming there, I was working at one of the local grocery stores and since he lived there for a few months during filming, he came into the store from time to time. not quite as historic as your cannon, but it's still something. :)
i hope you had a great New Year's Eve. i'm off to bed. g.nite.
-King George
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