Patrick McGoohan...
Jan. 14th, 2009 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoI was sorry to hear this news: that Patrick McGoohan has died.
I never liked The Prisoner TV show much, though I liked the comic. But I loved McGoohan in many roles, especially Danger Man and one of my favourite childhood movies, The Three Lives of Thomasina.
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Date: 2009-01-14 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-14 08:01 pm (UTC)And yes, he was, for me, one of the chief delights of Thomasina.
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Date: 2009-01-14 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-14 08:02 pm (UTC)I'm trying to forget that the last thing I saw him in was Braveheart.
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Date: 2009-01-15 02:53 am (UTC)I'd like to visit sometime. That would be such fun.
I am no closer to understanding what the heck it is about than I was in my very early teens
Heh!
I have an abiding terror of huge white weather balloons to this day...
Not surprising in the least. I bet a lot of people feel that way.
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Date: 2009-01-15 01:13 am (UTC)I had not heard that Patrick McGoohan had died. Thanks. I heard today that Ricardo Montalbahn passed away at age 88. Ah, Khan.
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Date: 2009-01-15 02:49 am (UTC)I heard today that Ricardo Montalbahn passed away at age 88. Ah, Khan.
What a memorable role! I'm not sure I ever really saw him on anything else. I knew he was on TV, but not in anything I remember watching. Always liked his style, though.
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Date: 2009-01-20 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-20 01:04 pm (UTC)She was quite wonderful. I just looked her up (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358925/) on imdb because I haven't seen her in anything for a while, but it seems she's still going strong, and is even more impressive than a knew - a spokesperson for dyslexia, and she wrote a book about it. Excellent!
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Date: 2009-02-07 02:32 am (UTC)There is all sorts of variation with dyslexia. I just found out, basically against my choosing, about two years ago that I have been dyslexic all my life. I think it has something to do with my so-called face-blindness, but I'm still thinking about that. Anyway, in me it also involves numbers: I cannot add or subtract a column for the life of me. Yet I do algebra for fun. Numbers fall into such fun patterns, but still I can't add -- it makes no sense to me.
My nephew Daniel used to refuse to try to read. He now reads at all opportunities. He is as severely dyslexic as his dad is (my brother-in-law, who did not get his high school equivalency till he was in his thirties), and he has to work at the reading: the words jump all over the place, my sister describes it for him. For myself, I don't naturally see things in left-to-right order.
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Date: 2009-02-07 01:19 pm (UTC)Numbers fall into such fun patterns, but still I can't add -- it makes no sense to me.
Seems strange to me, too, because you'd think it would go together. I can add. I can do algebra (though I don't do it for fun, only if I have to.) And numbers stubbornly don't make patterns for me; I wish they did, but I have to force them into it, and it's a struggle. I find numbers very difficult to remember.
I'm always pleased when dyslexic people catch on to the pleasure of reading.
I'm not sure if seeing things in left to right order is so much a natural thing for anyone, or a learned habit. I don't have a problem with it, but when I was studying Arabic I started reading English backwards half the time.
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Date: 2009-02-09 04:03 am (UTC)Patterns... as in, I remember my license plate number because it is three descending odd numbers in sequence and then the lowest whole-number cube: 7538. Neat, huh? I see stuff like that all the time. Give me palindromic ZIP-Codes: Kissimmee Florida is 34743! Flint Michigan is 48184!
I have realized that my visual hyper-acuity makes it difficult for me to read without discomfort. I just love reading so much that I've long since forced myself past that. However, when I let myself notice it, there is definite discomfort, almost all the time: I see everything with the same acuity as I see the pages right in front of me, all peripheral vision is just that clear and just that "in front." And, no, I seem not to have a natural ability to screen anything out, in that scenario.
The idea of your reading English backwards while studying Arabic makes perfect sense to me. When I was about ten and working intensely with codes and alternate forms of writing, for the first time, I'd end up seeing my English in such different ways. Mind expansion! It was great adventure. Nobody I told about it seemed either to understand, or to care.
I like the ancient writing style that went "as the ox plows" -- eh? You know of it?
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Date: 2009-02-09 02:31 pm (UTC)First of all, it's not a space - in my own conception, at least, it's important not to confuse space, time, differences, digits and measurements, because they are all different things, and if I confused them I'd lose all the meagre facility with numbers that I do have. The numbers will never be clear to me in themselves, so the concepts have to be. If you're talking about years, and the days and months don't matter, why not simply subtract 1860 from 1865 and get five years' difference? (But it would confuse me dreadfully to think of it as a 'space' even if we might talk loosely about 'the space of years' - which, come to think of it, I wouldn't do.)
three descending odd numbers in sequence and then the lowest whole-number cube: 7538. Neat, huh?
Is it? These things are way over my head. I understand what the words mean but it doesn't sound 'neat' to me, just confusing. Not meaningfully so. Numbers don't really have patterns to me unless they are very simple and obvious. My reaction is not to think "neat" but "huh? what's that about? should I understand it? is it important?"
May I use your palindromic zip codes in my next issue of Pandas & Palindromes? Speaking of which.... why don't we pretend next Saturday is a deadline, so you can send me your zine to print, hmm? It's more fun when you have a zine.
Yes, of course I know about boustrophedonic writing. I do history, remember? [g] I like spiral writing, too, as in Linear A, if I recall correctly.
You know how conversations turn up synchronistically in totally different ways? I was discussing this very thing with Lillian, who was recently told (by a doctor testing her neurology) that she was not ambidextrous (as she had always thought) but - and now I embarrassingly forget the word she used - possibly bi-manual or bi-dextrous. Anyway, meaning that she can use each hand equally well, but can do certain skills better with one hand and other skills better with the other - a little extra flexibility.
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Date: 2009-01-15 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-15 02:50 am (UTC)What great choices - three of my greatest acting heroes. For the obvious reasons.
Yes, it saddened me, too.
I hadn't heard about Ricardo Montalban.
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