I really liked the bit that Sean pointed out about Mr Osmond:
"He – Mr Osmond – thought of drawing him to one side and asking him if he had heard the one about the man who went into the chemist’s shop; but the realisation of Mrs Palfrey’s being in the room shamed him. He now remembered lingering outside strip clubs looking at the photographs there, of making, indeed, special journeys to Soho to do that. He shied away from the knowledge of Naturist magazines in a drawer upstairs in his room. These reminders, in the very room where Mrs Palfrey was sitting, seemed to make a monster of him – a being from a different, shoddier world. She could not have understood, and he would not have respected her if she had."
I remembered noticing it in passing, but I'd forgotten it and I really liked the insights about the way Mrs Palfrey makes him desire to be a better man. Not only did he not tell the joke, but he remembers his past deeds with shame.
So glad David brought up Ludo's book. I find it fascinating that the original title is "We Aren't Allowed to Die Here," but it becomes "They Weren't Allowed to Die There." It feels like an intentional distancing, which seems to echo the novel's final melancholic line.
Part of our family reading was George Washington and the cherry tree, so I had to share David’s story of being teased and cussing out that kid with my kids too :)
Just starting the episode, but I think you guys would really enjoy “The Temperment God Gave You” by Art & Laraine Bennett! The school day reminiscing in the first few minutes made me think of it.
It builds on Hippocrates’ 4 temperaments & describes how someone of each type can motivate, parent, build on virtue, avoid vice, etc.
Sorry to psychoanalyze but sounds like Heidi may be at least part choleric (like St Paul), Sean phlegmatic (like St Thomas Aquinas), David melancholic (like St John the Evangelist), & Tim sanguine (like St Peter)
I really liked the bit that Sean pointed out about Mr Osmond:
"He – Mr Osmond – thought of drawing him to one side and asking him if he had heard the one about the man who went into the chemist’s shop; but the realisation of Mrs Palfrey’s being in the room shamed him. He now remembered lingering outside strip clubs looking at the photographs there, of making, indeed, special journeys to Soho to do that. He shied away from the knowledge of Naturist magazines in a drawer upstairs in his room. These reminders, in the very room where Mrs Palfrey was sitting, seemed to make a monster of him – a being from a different, shoddier world. She could not have understood, and he would not have respected her if she had."
I remembered noticing it in passing, but I'd forgotten it and I really liked the insights about the way Mrs Palfrey makes him desire to be a better man. Not only did he not tell the joke, but he remembers his past deeds with shame.
So glad David brought up Ludo's book. I find it fascinating that the original title is "We Aren't Allowed to Die Here," but it becomes "They Weren't Allowed to Die There." It feels like an intentional distancing, which seems to echo the novel's final melancholic line.
Part of our family reading was George Washington and the cherry tree, so I had to share David’s story of being teased and cussing out that kid with my kids too :)
Just starting the episode, but I think you guys would really enjoy “The Temperment God Gave You” by Art & Laraine Bennett! The school day reminiscing in the first few minutes made me think of it.
It builds on Hippocrates’ 4 temperaments & describes how someone of each type can motivate, parent, build on virtue, avoid vice, etc.
Sorry to psychoanalyze but sounds like Heidi may be at least part choleric (like St Paul), Sean phlegmatic (like St Thomas Aquinas), David melancholic (like St John the Evangelist), & Tim sanguine (like St Peter)
I had never thought about us as representing the four humours–this is great!
Is there a Q&A episode yet?