{"id":421,"date":"2011-01-07T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:12:49","slug":"post-holiday-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Post-Holiday Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Epiphany everyone. I’m just in from an utterly exhausting holiday trip to Rovigo, Louisville and Washington DC, and after yesterday’s 24-hour trip home, I’m too spent to do much other than post this ridiculous 1951 Warner Brothers cartoon featuring Charlie the Dog.<\/p>\n

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Ah, crude stereotypes of Italians and Ed Butz-like linguistic appropriations! Still, I knew that WB’s typing had to extend beyond Pep\u00e9 Le Pew and Speedy Gonzalez. Someone obviously had a deeper understanding of italianit\u00e0<\/a><\/em>, because there’s an obvious homage to the pre-WW1 greats of the Scala in the cartoon — the sign up in the restaurant (“Melba Tetrazzini Gadski Martinelli”).<\/p>\n

Otherwise: see the Social Network<\/em>, if you’re one of the few people that hasn’t already. I fully believe it took large liberties with the Truth in all senses (is Harvard still so good-old-boyish; do programmers really spend so little time coding and so much time partying — these have been thoroughly debunked<\/a> elsewhere<\/a>), but it’s good storytelling, and I think must hit on some basic kernel of truth in that Zuckerberg is a brilliant, slightly amoral geek with powerful driving ambitions — much like the world’s last true uber-geek, Bill Gates. (This ascendancy is broadly hinted at in the film — and those who incredibly don’t know who Gates is are those who miss out, although I sincerely doubt that there was one person at Harvard in 2003 who didn’t actually know of Bill Gates.)<\/p>\n

Totally unrelated: why does Hemingway, who dealt with the problem of bilingual conversations rather elegantly in A Farewell to Arms<\/em>, stumble so hard in For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em> by using ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ for tu<\/em>? It seems so basic. I’m not the only one<\/a> who noticed, of course.<\/p>\n

More after I’ve caught up on sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Epiphany everyone. I’m just in from an utterly exhausting holiday trip to Rovigo, Louisville and Washington DC, and after yesterday’s 24-hour trip home, I’m too spent to do much other than post this ridiculous 1951 Warner Brothers cartoon featuring Charlie the Dog. Ah, crude stereotypes of Italians and Ed Butz-like linguistic appropriations! Still, I … <\/p>\n

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