Public Address | Cafe | Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=302797#post302797 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=302797#post302797 we need some good synonyms for following your nose when your nose is more of a virtual organ

One I just stumbled on:

wiki walk

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Wiki-Walk

]]> Sun, 08 Dec 2013 20:18:42 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296890#post296890 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296890#post296890 And yet I felt the novel had a sly,elusive kind of quality that the film didn’t quite nail.

Mmmm -but:
it was hinted at and for those of my family who hadnt read the novel when we saw the film, confirmed by the last comments-

anyway, far more than most…

]]> Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:18:44 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296875#post296875 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296875#post296875 This process reminds me very much of Connections the BBC series with James Burke. While he had a focus, his path from one point to another was interesting. And like the internet paths we now follow could easily have led in different directions.

It also reminds me of the literature…

]]> Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:15:34 +1300 Erin H https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296857#post296857 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296857#post296857 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:16:45 +1300 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296833#post296833 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296833#post296833 There is a recent BBC radio podcast on the bomber/nightingale story here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4choice

]]> Mon, 30 Sept 2013 20:08:05 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296805#post296805 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296805#post296805 What a gorgeous essay, and you're right, we need some good synonyms for following your nose when your nose is more of a virtual organ. I've always quite liked "meander", both for the process of writing and of reading/link-following, because it sounds aimless but very much isn't...

The Meander (aka…

]]> Mon, 30 Sept 2013 14:19:19 +1300 Ben Austin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296773#post296773 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296773#post296773 Mon, 30 Sept 2013 09:15:43 +1300 Paul Brislen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296771#post296771 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296771#post296771 I presume you've all seen James Burke's excellent BBC series Connections – I found them all on YouTube a while ago and they stand up quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeConnection

I'm constantly surprised by how much of my thinking patterns were formed by watching Burke connect Napoleonic need for canned goods with…

]]> Mon, 30 Sept 2013 09:06:12 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296711#post296711 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296711#post296711 “Life of Pi"

Life of Pi was gorgeous, wasn't it? And yet I felt the novel had a sly,elusive kind of quality that the film didn't quite nail.

]]> Sun, 29 Sept 2013 08:58:02 +1300 "chris" https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296708#post296708 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296708#post296708 Despite certain portions of the novel not making it into the first film, The Godfather stands out for me as a superb adaptation.

What a profound post David. The crispness of that recording set me off on a quest to find out what mics they were using; three Neumann CMV3…

]]> Sun, 29 Sept 2013 01:05:36 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296707#post296707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296707#post296707 Hmmm.
"The Remains of the Day" I didnt see as a film, and "Atonement" I only saw partially (and didnt think I was viewing the novel, as it were.) I'll check them again, & thanks Carol-

"Mr Pip" has had an...errrm...interesting second trip to the screen & I'll definitely be watching it.…

]]> Sun, 29 Sept 2013 00:01:27 +1200 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296706#post296706 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296706#post296706 Almost all adaptations of complex novels are epic fails but some books work better than others

A couple of exceptions spring to mind where I think I preferred the film version to the original novel: The Remains of the Day and Atonement. I'm looking forward to Mr Pip coming out…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 23:31:15 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296703#post296703 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296703#post296703 O, do I like & esteem our fellow primates?

Yep.

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 23:11:30 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296701#post296701 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296701#post296701 The movie version was an epic fail, but the novel is sensational.

Almost all adaptations of complex novels are epic fails but some books work better than others (as a kid I loved Tarzan novels but found the films hugely better! I mean the bloody little monkey turned into a…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 22:54:35 +1200 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296699#post296699 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296699#post296699 Cloud Atlas. The movie version was an epic fail, but the novel is sensational. ]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 22:30:33 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296698#post296698 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296698#post296698 ealous

It is an Old Testament which was a treasure for the Scots side of my family – it was given to me to take care of – despite the fact I am an atheist- because family knew I would take care of it, and pass it along to some…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 22:19:06 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296697#post296697 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296697#post296697 And I have a book that dates back to the 16th century that has survived a flood and semi-charring-

Jealous. Best I've got is a Classical Chinese grammar with a foreword by Mao Zedong.

me, I believe in the portability et al of the new tech – and keep copies…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 22:12:09 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296696#post296696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296696#post296696 eah, that’s something that worries me, the whole impermanence and fragility of all this new-fangled technological stuff

That new-fangled technology is absolutely wonderful (I still cant believe I’ve got all my John Williams/Julian Bream collection on my G4 Nano. In my pocket…)
But I keep the CDs & vinyl & technology to…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 22:07:53 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296694#post296694 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296694#post296694 my net connection was down for weeks or days.

Yeah, that's something that worries me, the whole impermanence and fragility of all this new-fangled technological stuff. It's great when it's up and running, but one little break and.... For years I've had trouble writing Chinese by hand because of pinyin…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 21:05:39 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296693#post296693 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296693#post296693 Sat, 28 Sept 2013 21:01:21 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296691#post296691 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296691#post296691 Sat, 28 Sept 2013 20:42:13 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296688#post296688 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296688#post296688 I still cannot get my head around it.

Ow, I know. And I finally can't resist the 9/11 comparison. That infamous night (as it was here) I was watching a Wim Wenders film (The End of Violence, IIRC) with a new colleague when, 5 minutes short of the end, another…

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 20:12:51 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296686#post296686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296686#post296686 Writing about these link experiences is in its infancy. We need words to describe and shape them. We need concepts on which to base the aesthetics. We need ways to describe the discoveries. We need critics of link-series and commentators who can reveal the nuggets at the heart of the… ]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 19:44:08 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296684#post296684 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296684#post296684 Writing about these link experiences is in its infancy. We need words to describe and shape them. We need concepts on which to base the aesthetics. We need ways to describe the discoveries

Yes we do

]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 19:20:12 +1200 David Herkt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296683#post296683 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296683#post296683 Sat, 28 Sept 2013 18:45:09 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296675#post296675 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296675#post296675 Night & Day magazine in 1938, in wake of his review of the Shirley Temple film Wee Willie Winkie (dir. John… ]]> Sat, 28 Sept 2013 17:18:57 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296674#post296674 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/notes-queries-nightingales-bombs-beethoven/?p=296674#post296674 Discussion from blog post.

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