tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post1545859666641960689..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: TWO TALES FOR BOYSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-65350658654190659992018-03-29T17:13:06.589-06:002018-03-29T17:13:06.589-06:00Which the Johns (Ford and Wayne) cannot abide, yet...Which the Johns (Ford and Wayne) cannot abide, yet do not quite know what to do with.<br /><br />"Knick 'im!"<br /><br />Indeed.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-2846750673703902612018-03-29T07:51:42.782-06:002018-03-29T07:51:42.782-06:00"Empire of the Sun" was the film (and bo..."Empire of the Sun" was the film (and book) that grabbed me. This line of thought intrigues me a lot. I'm working on a post about the unisex aspect of cowboys right now. -- as an explicit version of gay man culture. Not so much "Brokeback Mountain" which is socioeconomic as much as about desire, but the Montgomery Clift sort of aspect where he is quite male, but tends to pick up a kind of nurturing. That twisting tender mouth and semi-poetic aspect.<br /><br />Prairie Mary Mary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-84452953559994583062018-03-29T07:31:44.649-06:002018-03-29T07:31:44.649-06:00Hm. You've got me thinking, Mary. Madeleine L&...Hm. You've got me thinking, Mary. Madeleine L'Engle (<a href="https://themillions.com/2018/03/becoming-madeleine-lengle-a-conversation-with-charlotte-jones-voiklis-and-lena-roy.html" rel="nofollow">abandoned at 11</a>) is also coming to mind.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-87545388674917047392018-03-29T07:14:23.871-06:002018-03-29T07:14:23.871-06:00Morning, Mary. I recently picked up a discarded co...Morning, Mary. I recently picked up a discarded copy of Laurens van der Post's <i>The Night Of The New Moon</i>, one of his accounts of life as a Japanese POW. He describes a "university" system they established, to keep from going mad. I gather LvdP was <i>quite</i> the fabulist (and roué), but this sort of prisoner project seems to be an innate collective response to conditions. Steven Pressfield describes a similar project amongst POWs in one of his Grecian Wars novels (<i>Tides Of War</i>). This is, of course, a qualitatively different environment from being marooned, a la Ballantyne and Golding -- a group consciousness that is shaped by human antagonism, not Nature's seeming indifference.<br /><br />DarrellWhisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.com