Oh, really? That sounds interesting. (I posted my thoughts on that somewhere, sometime, but I don't recall where it is or what I said.)
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JJanuary 15, 2025 at 8:51pm
Right. The novel and one of the TV episodes establishes that the movies exist as movies based on the moviemakers' understanding of who the Doctor is (since the public seems to have some awareness that there's a Doctor out there).
Oh, yeah... I kinda remember that: that the movies themselves exist within the "Whoniverse." I think my "explanation" tried to account for them in continuity.
Finally finished An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke. A page-turner, it was not, but there were some interesting ideas in it. The bit that most stood out for me was the section where Locke discusses why he thinks that having "microscopical vision" would not be of that much use to a person. Not something that I would have predicted!
I'm about two-thirds through Horace McCoy's original novel of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? We recently saw the movie.
The book is worthwhile, and quite gritty. The only concession to the sensibilities of the time is writing "f----" and "f----ing" rather than write the word in full.
(I realize that the 1930s were a very gritty time, but the popular literature sometimes softens those elements).
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Oh, really? That sounds interesting. (I posted my thoughts on that somewhere, sometime, but I don't recall where it is or what I said.)
Right. The novel and one of the TV episodes establishes that the movies exist as movies based on the moviemakers' understanding of who the Doctor is (since the public seems to have some awareness that there's a Doctor out there).
Oh, yeah... I kinda remember that: that the movies themselves exist within the "Whoniverse." I think my "explanation" tried to account for them in continuity.
Finally finished An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke. A page-turner, it was not, but there were some interesting ideas in it. The bit that most stood out for me was the section where Locke discusses why he thinks that having "microscopical vision" would not be of that much use to a person. Not something that I would have predicted!
I'm about two-thirds through Horace McCoy's original novel of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? We recently saw the movie.
The book is worthwhile, and quite gritty. The only concession to the sensibilities of the time is writing "f----" and "f----ing" rather than write the word in full.
(I realize that the 1930s were a very gritty time, but the popular literature sometimes softens those elements).
Currently a little over halfway through Catch-22, by Joseph Heller.
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