Comments on: Beware of Muddle http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/ laniersbooks.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:39:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Melinda http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-68 Melinda Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:15:30 +0000 http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-68 I haven't read A Room with a View, but I did see the movie and read his Howard's End. Ah, Forester is maddening! I come away from his books and the films made from his books thoroughly frustrated. The a Room with a View movie drove me batty. Same with Howard's End, both film and book. When I read Forester, I want to clutch my head and scream. He does hit the nail on the head with his thoughts on muddle, though. He truly knows how to create muddle in his works. He is brilliant, but oh so muddled. Coming away from Forester, I want to all the more embrace my not-so-muddled life. I haven’t read A Room with a View, but I did see the movie and read his Howard’s End. Ah, Forester is maddening! I come away from his books and the films made from his books thoroughly frustrated. The a Room with a View movie drove me batty. Same with Howard’s End, both film and book. When I read Forester, I want to clutch my head and scream. He does hit the nail on the head with his thoughts on muddle, though. He truly knows how to create muddle in his works. He is brilliant, but oh so muddled. Coming away from Forester, I want to all the more embrace my not-so-muddled life.

]]> By: Lanier Ivester http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-69 Lanier Ivester Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:56:36 +0000 http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-69 No, Melinda,I won't deny that Forster, gifted as he was in the arts of human nature, had some very unfortunate--I would even say tragic--misuderstandings about God. But isn't that what muddles are, in the most basic sense? :) Whenever I find myself confused, kerflummoxed about something great or small, I can usually trace it back to something that I've misunderstood about God. Or, at the very least, a truth about Him that I've momentarily misplaced. :) It's good to be reminded how pernicious those innocent-looking muddles really are... But, ah! A Room With a View...the very strains of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' make me want to swoon! :) Granted, there is a very unnecessarily gratuitous scene in the film that I was totally unprepared for the first time I saw it and which has henceforth been fast-forwarded over in subsequent viewings. I guess I should have added that disclaimer! :) No, Melinda,I won’t deny that Forster, gifted as he was in the arts of human nature, had some very unfortunate–I would even say tragic–misuderstandings about God. But isn’t that what muddles are, in the most basic sense? :) Whenever I find myself confused, kerflummoxed about something great or small, I can usually trace it back to something that I’ve misunderstood about God. Or, at the very least, a truth about Him that I’ve momentarily misplaced. :) It’s good to be reminded how pernicious those innocent-looking muddles really are…
But, ah! A Room With a View…the very strains of ‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ make me want to swoon! :) Granted, there is a very unnecessarily gratuitous scene in the film that I was totally unprepared for the first time I saw it and which has henceforth been fast-forwarded over in subsequent viewings. I guess I should have added that disclaimer! :)

]]> By: Melinda http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-73 Melinda Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:21:28 +0000 http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-73 Yes, you are right, but there is something in the way that Forrester is muddled that frustrates me so much. I appreciate him, I think him genius, but I cannot abide long acquaintances with him. To each her own. ;-) I saw the film edited, so I did not have to endure such a scene. :-) I rent most of my movies through www.editedfilmes.com Yes, you are right, but there is something in the way that Forrester is muddled that frustrates me so much. I appreciate him, I think him genius, but I cannot abide long acquaintances with him. To each her own. ;-)

I saw the film edited, so I did not have to endure such a scene. :-) I rent most of my movies through www.editedfilmes.com

]]> By: Melinda http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-74 Melinda Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:21:55 +0000 http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-74 And if I could spell, I could be ever more helpful! ;-) I meant www.editedfilms.com And if I could spell, I could be ever more helpful! ;-) I meant www.editedfilms.com

]]> By: Lanier Ivester http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-81 Lanier Ivester Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:01:36 +0000 http://laniersbooks.com/2005/10/11/beware-of-muddle/#comment-81 Thanks for the tip! Thanks for the tip!

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