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Fathers and daughters, again
The daughter is granted forgiveness by her father. “You will bravely face whatever life brings you. How could you not? You are the daughter of Jack d’Arc. Be well, my daughter, be well.”
and now…
“…my darkest time lies again. But it is all in God’s plan. It will all be fine in the end.”

“Please give me a sign….WHY WON’T YOU ANSWER ME?” Joan without her voices. The great tragedy of having had the voice of God in your head, and then losing it…enough to drive you mad.

The attack on Paris
Joan gets cocky…she starts thinking she really is the Maid of Lorraine. She does fall into heresy, pretending to speak for God when she hears no voices. She loses all her friends, , and Paris will not fall. Joan is fallible now, we see that when she makes decisions on her own, she makes horrible mistakes. That’s the way with divine intervention….you have to know that it’s not you, it’s something else. And that that’s the danger of being an instrument of God….

A chilling blog moment
tilted wisdom – when i was six…
when i was six….
red ribbons were for christmas
quilts were for beds
and my friends died by accident

“Come out that I may send you to hell!” Go, Joan! What a line! And with that…..the first French victory against England and the Burgundians!

God, I’m seeing that stupid tigger joke everywhere too. Is this a Megnut kind of thing? Post the same thing as someone cool and you too will be cool? We’re cooler than that. We’re so cool we’re going to just talk about how cool we are instead of posting the joke.

And I’d just like to say that for the first time in this movie we see the face of St. Catherine and it’s really quite cool.

The insanity continutes
Okay, so my friend over at throughyoureyes.com blogged about me quoting her….and then commented on how bad it is to blog about someone blogging about you….well…how bad is it when you blog about someone blogging about you blogging about them?

Plague
Joan goes to visit a man suffering from plague. She’s bundled severely, and she’s been told to burn her cloak afterward. He helps her find a weak spot for her first attack.
“Dear maid…bless me.” He says.
This is where she starts to get heretical. And she touches him, which no one, I’m sure will do at this point. They burn her hands afterward.

“A test of her purity”
Sent to Poiters to have her purity properly vouched for. You can just imagine. And the people love her, because word gets out quickly that she is the Maid of Lorraine.
“What if she fails?”
“If she fails, she’s just a derranged farm girl. What if she succeeds?”
Her first inquisition. They test her virginity. The priests find no heresy in what she says. She tells them about the voices she hears, and her mission, and why it’s important. First inquisition, same words, she’s devout, honest, and faithful.

Heee….a nice jab at indulgences. Comparison with the state and the church on collecting money. Logical, but I’m not sure the dauphin would say that…

Nice vision of the court…I know nothing about ‘court’ though. So I can’t say whether it seems right or not. It looks busy. Reminds me of Tom Stoppard’s stage directions “The King and Queen, attended” with a huge crowd of people that twitter and and gossip while the King and Queen do their thing.

Would the church appoint a spiritual adviser to the king? Would he not chose his own?

St. Catherine of Alexandria
Of noble birth and learned in the sciences, when only eighteen years old, Catherine presented herself to the Emperor Maximinus who was violently persecuting the Christians, upbraided him for his cruelty and endeavoured to prove how iniquitous was the worship of false gods. Astounded at the young girl’s audacity, but incompetent to vie with her in point of learning the tyrant detained her in his palace and summoned numerous scholars whom he commanded to use all their skill in specious reasoning that thereby Catherine might be led to apostatize. But she emerged from the debate victorious. Several of her adversaries, conquered by her eloquence, declared themselves Christians and were at once put to death. Furious at being baffled, Maximinus had Catherine scourged and then imprisoned. Meanwhile the empress, eager to see so extraordinary a young woman, went with Porphyry, the head of the troops, to visit her in her dungeon, when they in turn yielded to Catherine’s exhortations, believed, were baptized, and immediately won the martyr’s crown. Soon afterwards the saint, who far from forsaking her Faith, effected so many conversions, was condemned to die on the wheel, but, at her touch, this instrument of torture was miraculously destroyed. The emperor, enraged beyond control, then had her beheaded and angels carried her body to Mount Sinai where later a church and monastery were built in her honour.

A fitting patron saint for our Joan. As I write this: Joan has just cut off all her hair, and they have been confronted by a band of English knights.

Even a quick comment about what noblemen need to learn…a bit of everything, including cooking.

I like that this movie doesn’t try to give Joan other motives other than the ones she said she had…it doesn’t make her mad, it doesn’t make her delusion or just a power-hungry cross-dresser. It believes that she did hear the voices of St. Catherine and St. Margaret. And it’s the story of a devout girl, divine intervention, and all that. My Catholic roommate hated that. I like it.

Like Moses
There are echoes of ‘Let my people go’ here….we have Joan, attempting to reach the dauphin, stuck under the thumb of a local noble. He won’t let her go…he won’t send her….and so helps out a nun to feed the poor, and comes up with a plan to raise an army. What’s most fun are the ‘plagues’ that are delivered to the Duke….the hens won’t let eggs. So Joan goes back dressed as a man, and the Duke lets her go.

War and Famine
What I also like about this film is that it represents the continual war and famine of the early modern period. I find I usually gloss over this, probably because I normally deal with merchant classes and nobles.

They just referred to Joan as a “camp following strumpet’. That’s a nice touch….since armies would be followed by an even larger army of women, tradespeople, and animals. Syphillis, from what we know, seems to have passed so quickly around Europe after 1493 because of the movement of armies.

Joan shouts, “Emile! Emile!” as a burning roof collapses on her blind friend. And then drops in front on the burning church and shouts, “WHY? He was your best child! What did he do wrong? What did I do wrong?”

This is a nice scene, but I must say the greatest part of this is that Leelee’s father is actually french, and she speaks french, and therefore pronounces names of people and places properly. Thank God.

Fathers and Daughters in early modern France
Now…we do have an interesting father-daughter relationship happening here. From the beginning, her father doesn’t want her…he is about to kill the infant. I wonder what the sources are about that. Now we had her father throw Joan out of the house because she questions her father. They have a very antagonistic relationship. I’m going to go look up some stuff on the info we have about Joan. Certainly there must be a great deal, since there was a full inquisition…

I just popped in the mini series Joan of Arc starring Leelee Sobieski. I bought it when I was in the states. I saw in on tv there and just LOVED it. By the second part I knew I had to own it…it has an inquisition in it. Ah….I haven’t seen it in ages.

How much are you worth?
Well, apparently I’m worth exactly $1,705,070.00. And I assume that’s in American funds. How much are you worth?

Dumb joke repetition noticed
throughyoureyes.com says: “Ok, what the fuck? I’ve seen that stupid tigger/toilet/poo joke on four blogs now. It’s cute, but not especially funny, and certainly not worth repeating over and over and over again.” Agreed. I agree so much that I won’t even repeat it for the sake of context. 🙂 Bloggers are already losing their minds.

Geranium cam! I managed to finally pot my new geraniums, after substantial deadheading.

Where was the moving picture/movie/film first invented? Where did it first gain cultural resonance? Anyone know?

button thoughts
[+][beam] jason says, “to be ovrewhelmed by moo is good. ”
[+][beam] jason says, “after my first experience, I put it aside for 5 years to figure out if I was ready fo ri t;-)”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “hmmm”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “I wish I could understand what that’s like”
[+][beam] Hildegarde asks, “is it describable?”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “maybe if I understood it I’d be more patient with people”
[+][beam] jason asks, “what? the overwhelming sense of possibility that paralizes action?”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “no no, moo being overwhelming. :)”
[+][beam] jason says, “or the ‘my brain hurts’ congnitive overwhelming.”
[+][beam] jason says, “that’s what I’m referring to.”
[+][beam] Hildegarde giggles.
[+][beam] Hildegarde asks, “I don’t think most people get possibility out of this….they see chat, don’t they?”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “I don’t think MOO is very obvious about what it can do”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “Like, if I were the designer…”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “I wouldn’t have an ‘objects’ and a ‘my stuff’ button.”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “I would have a ‘my stuff’ button and a ‘create’ button”
[+][beam] jason grins.
[+][beam] jason says, “no shit.”
[+][beam] jason says, “I think you’re on the money.”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “from the point of view of being building focused”
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “like *ahem* I am. :)”
[+][beam] jason says, “but to me, the design needs to be a combination of whim and reflection”
[+][beam] jason says, “I think that the button should be eternally reconfiguarable”
[+][beam] salmon grin.
[+][beam] salmon [to Hildegarde]: love the button thoughts
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, “I’ll blog that”
[+][beam] salmon exclaims, “yay!”
[+][beam] jason goes Woooooohoooooooo! across the channel.’

On the phone with mom….talking about funeral stuff and all that. Bah….and the fact that the grass looks awful because it’s been so dry. And so on. You know how it goes…

Are You Naughty or Nice? Wanna guess what I am?

You’re a Straight Arrow

You’re all about sweetness, sunshine, and smiles. We’ve never met anyone nicer than you. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised to come across you sitting in a peaceful green meadow, surrounded by adorable baby animals eating out of your hand while your halo shines in the sun. Nah, we’re just kidding. But you are an awfully good person. Sure, you may have dipped your toe in the naughty pool once or twice, but you generally stick to the shallow end, leaving the deep waters to the leather-and-nudie-magazine crowd. It’s all well and good to follow the straight and narrow, but it’s okay to walk on the wild side once in a while, too. Have a drink. Make a crank call. Go to strip club. Trust us � as long as no one gets hurt, it’s fun to be bad!

Emode.com: What’s Your Celebrity Look?
Mine:
Who can say what goes on behind that Mysterious Look? No one for sure, because you love to keep them guessing. Your secretive ways are as intriguing as your exotic beauty. Maybe it’s your deep, dreamy eyes, or maybe it’s that elusive smile that hides something more. As a nonconformist by nature, you tend to fuse different fashions into unique combinations that express the real you�marrying the vintage with the modern or the classic with the eclectic. Like your celebrity counterparts, Winona Ryder and Juliette Binoche, you’re always open to intelligent discussion and experimental jewelry and makeup. By playing up your intense features with deep lipsticks and an alluring eye shadow, you’re both captivating and unpredictable.

Uh huh. Yeah, that’s me.

The first sign of trouble
I’ve discovered something interesting. I’m capable of being online for…oh, 30 hours straight (been there, done that), and had no problems. (Granted, I was in love at the time. But still.) Now I can barely do 4 hours without getting dreadfully bored. I think partly I’m scared now because I can’t start anything…I’m afraid I’ll forget to blog. So now I’m bored.

Give me permission to code something? I do have work to do, after all.

Metafilter opinions on Planet of the Apes
After watching the trailer in the theater, my wife opined that this film should be renamed “Super Jumpin’ Monkeys!” Personally, I think it’s going to suck giant bananas and will possess none of the weird antihero vibe or timeless style of the original version. It’s going to be yet another assembly-line Hollywood action-film regurgitation with a dollop of Tim Burton’s wearisome outsider angst on top. The best we can hope for is some truly hamfisted dialogue from MarkyMark, but he’s no Chuckie Heston.

Wow. I thought it looked way cool from the trailers. Silly me. Then, I’m easily impressed.

Time for a reboot….sheeeeeesh

Edublog Cams reflect what me and jason and salmon are up to. salmon is being shy and showing us a leaf…jason is making pizza, and I’m being as comfortable as I can possibly be.