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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Movie "Twisters" Heading For Epic Weekend -- July 21, 2024

Locator: 48203MOVIE.

Three links:

This does not look like a struggling economy or a struggling consumer. Just saying.

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Swimming Every Day

Generally I try to get forty lengths of the pool in -- or, I guess, 20 laps. Yesterday, seven lengths of the pool  -- I doubt I will be swimming today. Light rain now and it doesn't look like it will let up any time soon.

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The Book Page

From my journals, how I discovered Middlemarch, perhaps the turning point in my reading, decades ago: 

I asked Mary Corbin, San Antonio, 2005 who had her master’s degree in British Literature and taught British Literature most of her life, where to go next.  

Among many works, she mentioned (and raved about Silas Marner by George Eliot).  

I had read Silas Marner in high school but did not recall it.  I went to the half-price bookstore and bought a copy of Silas Marner but saw a thicker novel by George Eliot that intrigued me even more:  Middlemarch.  At the time of this writing, I am now halfway through that novel and enjoy it immensely.  [I read Silas Marner later.  To say that Silas Marner was incredible is an understatement.  My contemporaries remember Silas Marner being about “a creepy man” if they remember the story at all.  The story is so wonderful on so many levels.  I want to read it again; I now understand why people read great books over and over.]

Also, for the "book page," this from wiki. I was reminded of this from an "essay" in today's New York Times. The link:

Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples was a best selling book published by M. Evans & Company in 1972 by Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill. It was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 40 weeks.
It has been translated into 14 languages and has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide according to the publisher.
The book changed the meaning of the term.
The O'Neills describe open marriage as a relationship in which each partner has room for personal growth and can individually develop outside friendships, rather than focus obsessively on their couplehood and their family unit (being "closed"). Most of the book describes approaches to revitalizing marriage in areas of trust, role flexibility, communication, identity, and equality. Chapter 16, entitled "Love Without Jealousy", devoted 20 pages to the proposition that an open marriage might possibly include some forms of sexuality with other partners. Fueled by frequent appearances of the O'Neills on television and in magazine articles, the redefinition entered popular consciousness, and open marriage became a synonym for sexually non-monogamous marriage.

Years ago, I met a woman in England whose husband unilaterally decided to move into an "open marriage" lifestyle. She "accepted" it at the time, but I returned to the "states" too soon to find how it turned out. My hunch: the marriage did not survive. They had no children and at their stage in their lives would be unlikely to ever have children. 

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