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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2004-12-20 09:41 am
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Agatha Christie- Anarchist

ITV is screening a new set of Miss Marple dramatizations, starring Geraldine McEwan.

We've seen a couple now. I always found Christie a dull read, but she works fabulously on the small screen.

Murder At The Vicarage spent a leisurely three quarters of an hour establishing the 1950s rural idyll that is St Mary Mead and then tore it to
shreds as it was revealed that all these prosperous, respectable middle-Englander stereotypes are in fact murderers, adulterers, thieves, embezelers and traitors.

In her own way Christie is as subversive as Bunuel. Something like Murder At The Vicarage is really just The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie by other means.

[identity profile] craftyailz.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes please, it's about time we had a new poem!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm thinking...I'm thinking....

[identity profile] craftyailz.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Think harder

[identity profile] arielstarshadow.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing like pressure to make poetry even more difficult. -grin-

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well quite.

I sketched out a few preliminary ideas, but they were rubbish.

[identity profile] jackiejj.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
My apologies!

Next time you have a poem, I will be glad.

Until then, your good posts will do just fine.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I've left a window standing open. Maybe something will fly in. One never knows...