tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post3282289661405504259..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Aldous Huxley and Proustzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-15433803321944839232010-03-12T00:11:09.587+01:002010-03-12T00:11:09.587+01:00David: I like the words 'charming fancy' i...David: I like the words 'charming fancy' in proximity to 'flatulence'.<br />Gaw: I quite liked Russell's Women in Love (as far as I can remember) but The Devils was an ordeal. Here's a link to a clip from it and I'm sure thre are probably more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Xgm1u_SF4zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-26155333729417522512010-03-11T17:49:03.534+01:002010-03-11T17:49:03.534+01:00I didn't know that Ken Russell had filmed it. ...I didn't know that Ken Russell had filmed it. But I suppose there are far more similarities between one KR film and another than between them and their source material.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-74222369966490366622010-03-11T15:37:42.845+01:002010-03-11T15:37:42.845+01:00I looked up carminative on Wikipedia. Now, one mi...I looked up carminative on Wikipedia. Now, one might object that we can't trust Wikipedia, but this definition is a gem, ending with the charming fancy that a carminative "facilitates the expulsion of said gas, thereby combating flatulence."Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902329503560660425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-23303974174351611782010-03-11T12:56:49.694+01:002010-03-11T12:56:49.694+01:00I've just looked it up - first impression, mus...I've just looked it up - first impression, must read it, then saw it was what The Devils was based on and thought 'Ugh.' But presumably Ken Russell is to blame for what he did to a good book? I shall go down to the library and find it in the catalogue and then discover it's gone walkabout - or possibly get my hands on it. Can't believe I'd never heard of it. Many thanks.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-71184922085018332732010-03-11T10:19:53.927+01:002010-03-11T10:19:53.927+01:00Great description of Proust. And I'm afraid I ...Great description of Proust. And I'm afraid I concur. Can't stand it.<br /><br />Re Huxley, The Devils of Loudon deserves to be current. It's good on moral panics and what they can give rise to: a lesson that seems to require re-learning every generation or so.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-49174302472320966562010-03-11T09:04:55.912+01:002010-03-11T09:04:55.912+01:00Which is what Denis discovers after he writes a po...Which is what Denis discovers after he writes a poem about the effects of love and wine. He says:<br />'Love, for example, is essentially carminative. It gives one the sense of warmth, the glow. <br />"And passion carminative as wine..."<br />was what I wrote. Not only was the line elegantly sonorous; it was also, I flattered myself, very aptly and compendiously expressive. Everything was in the word carminative - a detailed exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion. <br />"And passion carminative as wine ..."<br />I was not ill-pleased. And then suddenly it occurred to me that I had never actually looked up the word in a dictionary. Carminative had grown up with me from the days of the cinnamon bottle. It had always been taken for granted. Carminative: for me the word was as rich in content as some tremendous, elaborate work of art; it was a complete landscape with figures. <br />"And passion carminative as wine ..."<br />It wsa the first time I had ever committed the word to writing and all at once I felt I would like lexicographical authority for it. A small English-German dictionary was all I had at hand. I turned up C, ca, car, carm. There it was: "Carminative: windtreibend." Windtreibend!'zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-68458145926653508242010-03-11T07:31:35.411+01:002010-03-11T07:31:35.411+01:00But according to my dictionary it means "expe...But according to my dictionary it means "expelling gas from the stomach or intestines so as to relieve flatulence or abdominal pain or distension"!Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com