Ah yes, I remember Blue (though I never saw it). Simulcast on Radio 4, IIRC; listeners were asked to place a blue backdrop in front of them whilst listening to it.
I heard an interview with Derek Jarman on Radio 1 shortly before he died. I was moved by the plight of an intensely visual man struck blind, and went to Waterstones to check out Chroma, the book in which he tried to get his relationship with colour down into words. Picked it up, had a look at it, was completely underwhelmed, and put it back down again. (And did the same thing again a few years later, when I thought I might have grown to appreciate it.)
Hmm. Although I'd heard of Blue before, I'd never heard anything about it — not even what made it quite so unusual.
I might take a look at it, some day, though not in a context where I'd feel uncomfortable about stopping after five minutes if I couldn't stomach it. (-8
I think the Jarman film I most want to see, however, is Sebastiane. Since Latin is normally something I read rather than hear, I'd be fascinated to discover what Latin as a spoken language in an everyday context (as opposed to oratory) feels like.
Naturally, the homoeroticism interests me not at all…
At school we were taught to pronounce Latin with V as /w/, C and G always hard, etc, but with accentuation much like in English. Many years later, my Ph.D. supervisor, who was Italian, was fascinated to hear me pronouncing it this way, as he had not been taught to pronounce it any differently from Italian, with V as /v/, C and G /ch/ and /j/ before I and E, and with the same singsong accentuation as Italian.
Then, at rsymiel's wedding, someone gave a recitation of Latin love poetry, pronouncing it with V and /w/, etc, but with the singsong accentuation, and long double letters, of Italian. The result sounded rather odd to me; but I would guess was the closest of the three to how Vulgar Latin was pronounced. (In classical times, at least; papersky informs that that C was already /ch/ before I and E by the fall of the Western Empire.)
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Date: 2004-04-19 03:12 pm (UTC)Ah yes, I remember Blue (though I never saw it). Simulcast on Radio 4, IIRC; listeners were asked to place a blue backdrop in front of them whilst listening to it.
I heard an interview with Derek Jarman on Radio 1 shortly before he died. I was moved by the plight of an intensely visual man struck blind, and went to Waterstones to check out Chroma, the book in which he tried to get his relationship with colour down into words. Picked it up, had a look at it, was completely underwhelmed, and put it back down again. (And did the same thing again a few years later, when I thought I might have grown to appreciate it.)
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Date: 2004-04-19 05:22 pm (UTC)I might take a look at it, some day, though not in a context where I'd feel uncomfortable about stopping after five minutes if I couldn't stomach it. (-8
I think the Jarman film I most want to see, however, is Sebastiane. Since Latin is normally something I read rather than hear, I'd be fascinated to discover what Latin as a spoken language in an everyday context (as opposed to oratory) feels like.
Naturally, the homoeroticism interests me not at all…
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Date: 2004-04-21 01:45 pm (UTC)Then, at