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sonnet18
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late  Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:04 am |
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rendezvous wrote: You jammy sod.  And this right here is why we love you guys. Nobody has created better slang and turns of phrase. 
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:11 am |
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sonnet18 wrote: rendezvous wrote: You jammy sod. And this right here is why we love you guys. Nobody has created better slang and turns of phrase. Agree!!!! 
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:01 pm |
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Hi Teresa,
Well, it's pretty hard to go wrong with Edward Hopper. Nighthawks is surely among the best evocations of how lonely one's own thoughts or absence of same can sometimes be. Perhaps they're feeling knocked down enough by life to prefer not to think at all for half an hour over coffee. Coffee, never a good or helpful companion to misery, when perhaps they're longing for a stiff drink. (I would be, were I in that picture.) It's a strong, muscular, challenging piece, among my favorites.
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:11 pm |
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sonnet18 wrote: Hi Teresa,
Well, it's pretty hard to go wrong with Edward Hopper. Nighthawks is surely among the best evocations of how lonely one's own thoughts or absence of same can sometimes be. Perhaps they're feeling knocked down enough by life to prefer not to think at all for half an hour over coffee. Coffee, never a good or helpful companion to misery, when perhaps they're longing for a stiff drink. It's a strong, muscular, challenging piece, among my favorites. Hi Sonnet, thanks for that reply! Spot on, as our British friends say.. Perfectly Worded... Nighthawks.. The Name Alone is Perfect Such Strong Emotion in that painting Lonliness, Longing, maybe Melancholy A Noir Film Scene Certainly The first time I saw it I was, like many many others Immediately and Permanently attracted to it And I could not put into words Why
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:23 pm |
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For me it's a picture full of secrets, lives lived quite possibly in some regrettable ways, yet so accessible we can without conscious thought project our own secrets and regrets into the scene. It's okay to not necessarily feel able to attach descriptive words to it. Visual art goes beyond words.
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:33 pm |
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sonnet18 wrote: It's a picture full of secrets, lives lived quite possibly in some regrettable ways, yet so accessible we can without conscious thought project our own secrets and regrets into the scene. It's okay to not necessarily feel able to attach descriptive words to it. Visual art goes beyond words. Thank you Sonnet! Such an Absoultely Perfect Description! I have Never read a better.. You Did put into words what I see in it.. A Picture Full of Secrets... My Word!! Well, Yours...
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:46 pm |
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Teresa and Sonnet 18,
Lovely comments and thoughts.
HRoxySiren,
You're great.
Meet me in Plymouth, we need to stop these yanks taking over....I will be wearing a green balaclava.
Nonchalantly.
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:20 pm |
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rendezvous wrote: Meet me in Plymouth, we need to stop these yanks taking over....I will be wearing a green balaclava.
Nonchalantly. I'm half-Russian, for which heritage I feel little affinity, and half-Scot with a little Welsh tossed in, for which I feel ginormous affinity, so maybe that gives me a teeny smidgeon of U.K. cred. Not to worry, we won't crash the secret meeting of the green balaclavas.
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:25 am |
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sonnet18 wrote: rendezvous wrote: Meet me in Plymouth, we need to stop these yanks taking over....I will be wearing a green balaclava.
Nonchalantly. I'm half-Russian, for which heritage I feel little affinity, and half-Scot with a little Welsh tossed in, for which I feel ginormous affinity, so maybe that gives me a teeny smidgeon of U.K. cred. Not to worry, we won't crash the secret meeting of the green balaclavas. Ummmmmm I Might We Yanks Are Always Late Anyway....
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Post subject: Re: A Yank Finds It Late Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:31 am |
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teresa wrote: sonnet18 wrote: rendezvous wrote: Meet me in Plymouth, we need to stop these yanks taking over....I will be wearing a green balaclava.
Nonchalantly. I'm half-Russian, for which heritage I feel little affinity, and half-Scot with a little Welsh tossed in, for which I feel ginormous affinity, so maybe that gives me a teeny smidgeon of U.K. cred. Not to worry, we won't crash the secret meeting of the green balaclavas. Ummmmmm I Might And that makes it Easy Rendezvous... Plymouth, Michigan is ten minutes from me We Yanks Are Always Late Anyway....
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