Every time I look at you
Somethin' is on my mind
If you do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine
Life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream, sweetheart
-Hello, hello again
sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again
Life could be a dream
Life could be a dream, sweetheart
Life could be a dream
If only all my precious plans would come true
If you would let me spend my whole life lovin' you
Life could be a dream, sweetheart
Dee-oody-ooh, sh-boom, sh-boom
Dee-oody-ooh, sh-boom, sh-boom
Dee-oody-ooh, sh-boom, sh-boom
Sweetheart
Sh-boom
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Earth Spider Picture Scroll from Tokyo National Museum
Tsuchigumo, a spider-like spirit, here in the guise of a lovely woman, encounters Minamoto no Yorimitsu. Sensing danger, he strikes at her with his sword, and she disappears. He pursues her into caves in a mountain.
Inside the pursuers find, not a lovely lady, but an enormous spider. The tsuchigumo is slain, with lead to skulls and smaller spiders coming from the body.
In another tale, Yorimitsu meets an entire yokai army, but attacks the female general. The blow striking, the illusion is broken - the entire army was but a glamor. Again, she is pursued to her cave and slain in her true form of the giant spider
Umberto Eco: The Myth of Superman (1962)
Reprinted in Arguing Comics (2004) #BooksAboutComics
Came across this article about Superman from Umberto Eco, and thought I would tweet out some excerpts and ideas.
Eco first talks about heroes - equipped with superior powers, and those powers are often extremes of real abilities. That, in our modern world, man is sublimated to organizations and machines, thus our heroes embody powers to unthinkable degree we ourselves can not satisfy.
Superman has seemingly unlimited powers - of sight, hearing, strength, speed, etc. He is kind, handsome, and always helpful. Yet, he lives among us disguised a fearful, submissive Clark Kent - despised by Lois (who in turn, loves Superman)
Here is an article that says Finger, Kane and Robinson did credit the film, specifically a still of Veidt in makeup as Gwynplaine, for the inspiration.
Funny that Universal did not remake this film as a talkie (it did get a release with sync music)
The book was published in 1869, and is set in England during the time surrounding the brief turbulent reign of Catholic James II. The mutiliation of the protagonist is a symbol for what society is doing to people.
This is my first time going through P.L. Traver's book, Mary Poppins (The first in a series). I grew up with the Disney film, so it brings up the differences in adaptations, particularly in how Disney softened Mary Poppins.
In this first book, Mary Poppins is not there to fix anything really. She just, well, "Pops in". She is stern, aloof, vain, curt and, quite honestly, a liar in that she fervently denies several of the adventures with Jane and Michael ever happening.
The version of the book I went through is not the original 1934 version. The chapter called "Bad Tuesday" originally had Mary Poppins, Jane and Michael visiting people in different parts of the globe. Criticism about stereotypes prompted Travers to revise it in 1967...
The Doctor : "Do I have the right? Simply touch one wire against the other and that's it. The Daleks cease to exist. Hundreds of millions of people, thousands of generations can live without fear... in peace, and never even know the word "Dalek"."
You might think "Of course I would wipe out the Daleks" but the Doctor steps it deeper. Are his orders to do so just? What about all the unions and bridges made between others in the struggle against the Daleks? Does he have the right? Is it right? What does it do to him?
NuWho would revisit this "Have I the right" decades later, this time with John Hurt as the Doctor (or whatever name he went by).
There is also the plot device that some things are 'fixed' in time, like Adric's death, and must be.