Hello from Cordoba
May. 23rd, 2005 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieAm in Cordoba. Am in love.
The city is like nothing I have ever seen before: crooked narrow streets (when a moped drives by, it is a major event), tiles everywhere, sun baking the buildings even more sandy yellow than they are already, and flowers, flowers everywhere.
One feels as if Maimonides just stepped around the corner, and the place where we had tea out of thin blue cups with an intricate script'work looks like a place Haroun Al Rashid might have visited incognito.
My attempts at Spanish are met with polite and immediate English.
The Mosque-Cathedral is a row upon row of striped columns, going into infinity, looking for all the world like a stone forrest as imagined by a cubist. The orange trees drop the half-rotten, wholly yellow fruit on the dusty ground.
I am in love.
I am sorry for not replying to most people´s ljs. Once I get back, I promise to catch up. All these fascinating discussions going on!
In SW news, I was thinking of how much the Jedi screwed up by trying to negate Anakin´s emotions. He is a passionate person and he is a walking pressure cooker. All these emotions are repressed and bottled up and the lid is on so tight that when it blows, it is a spectacular explosion, precisely because he´s had no outlet. When he goes Sith, for a bit at least, it must be glorious not to have to control yourself but let it all go. If they taught him to channel instead of saying ¨¨suppress¨ without any guidance on how to do so, how much better would he have coped. His passions are so intense precisely because there is not much outlet for them. He is paranoid to lose Padme and Obi-Wan not just because he loves them, but because they are all he has.
Also, this made me lol: http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20050523a.gif
The city is like nothing I have ever seen before: crooked narrow streets (when a moped drives by, it is a major event), tiles everywhere, sun baking the buildings even more sandy yellow than they are already, and flowers, flowers everywhere.
One feels as if Maimonides just stepped around the corner, and the place where we had tea out of thin blue cups with an intricate script'work looks like a place Haroun Al Rashid might have visited incognito.
My attempts at Spanish are met with polite and immediate English.
The Mosque-Cathedral is a row upon row of striped columns, going into infinity, looking for all the world like a stone forrest as imagined by a cubist. The orange trees drop the half-rotten, wholly yellow fruit on the dusty ground.
I am in love.
I am sorry for not replying to most people´s ljs. Once I get back, I promise to catch up. All these fascinating discussions going on!
In SW news, I was thinking of how much the Jedi screwed up by trying to negate Anakin´s emotions. He is a passionate person and he is a walking pressure cooker. All these emotions are repressed and bottled up and the lid is on so tight that when it blows, it is a spectacular explosion, precisely because he´s had no outlet. When he goes Sith, for a bit at least, it must be glorious not to have to control yourself but let it all go. If they taught him to channel instead of saying ¨¨suppress¨ without any guidance on how to do so, how much better would he have coped. His passions are so intense precisely because there is not much outlet for them. He is paranoid to lose Padme and Obi-Wan not just because he loves them, but because they are all he has.
Also, this made me lol: http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20050523a.gif
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Date: 2005-05-23 08:05 pm (UTC)He is paranoid to lose Padme and Obi-Wan not just because he loves them, but because they are all he has Exactly. And then he loses them because of what he does. (A: "You turned her against me!" O: "You have done that yourself.") So all he has is himself and the Shadow that horrifies him, as we see in the novel's internal monologue. Each time I think about it, it further breaks my heart for him.
Remind me when I have more time to tell you about something little Ani does that is so amazing and good in the novelization of TPM (which I just picked up a copy of) that was completely left out of the film. He's such an incredible human being, and it all gets turned so very wrong.
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Date: 2005-05-23 08:27 pm (UTC)Ding! That was also my assessment. And the Jedi didn't know how to deal with him, and was AFRAID to deal with him. That was the thing. All of that real childhood and real life exposure they never had and couldn't possibly begin to understand, then add his power and the Chosen One crap on top of that.
Shit.
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Date: 2005-05-24 12:48 am (UTC)Thoughts on Revenge of the Sith at my livejournal.
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Date: 2005-05-24 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-24 04:07 am (UTC)LOL at that comic!