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cptgaio, I am an architect and I don't boast about it, but you might be interested to know that what fascinates me most about Frank Lloyd Wright today is his tangled biography, which I had never had the chance to delve into at university. Some time ago, however, a friend of mine told me about "The Women" by T.C. Boyle...

OK josi_, so we meet Friday afternoon in front of the new Operahuset. Then we decide.

I’m going to Oslo on Thursday. Do you have any preferences?

I saw the original (and I came out fine) just before it was stolen. At that time, the Oslo Museum of Modern Art was really a shack; it didn’t surprise me that the exhibited works could be stolen so easily. Anyway, the good Munch made quite a few copies, so the Norwegians didn't even worry too much and hung another version: that one was stolen too. But then they found them, you know.

Reverend! I would have never guessed that you liked Andrew Bird. I was enchanted when I heard him open for an Ani DiFranco concert (finally realizing who it was that made “that album I liked so much”).

More than "semi-unknown," I would say "rightly fallen into obscurity." I assure you they were not unknown, unfortunately.

Ah ah, I remember that in the first year of scientific high school, we caused quite a ruckus in the class council to read the book by Christiane F., just released, instead of The Betrothed; the proposal didn't pass (even though it was close), resulting in the entire class reading the book, including the most obtuse students and the children of parents who declared themselves against it, while the same cannot be said for The Betrothed.

One thing that has always pissed me off quite a bit: it’s not a whale that swallows Geppetto and then Pinocchio, damn it, damn it, damn it, but "the great pescecane" (that is, a shark). I wonder if anyone has ever really read the book.

For true enthusiasts, in Collodi, in the Pinocchio park (a park that hides several remarkable surprises), you can admire the puppet used in the film. I also really love Comencini's version, perhaps out of nostalgia, perhaps because, as a good film should, it boldly twists the original (one example, but there are many: Pinocchio in the film is a child from the very beginning, which is exactly the opposite of what happens in the tale).

Let me clarify something, Fallen: do you think that anyone who takes action against an occupying army should then, to avoid being seen as a coward, surrender and hand themselves over to the enemy they're trying to fight? It seems rather illogical, doesn’t it? After all, regular armies don’t do that either. So, perhaps you’re suggesting that one should refrain from acting out of fear of potential reprisals against civilians. In other words, that one should be cowardly. Am I wrong, or is there a contradiction here? PS: I haven’t seen the film nor will I, but I read the book: definitely a slog, it would have sufficed to provide a list of the people horrifically murdered by the partisans (and especially by those who claimed to be such) after the liberation, maybe a brief biography of them as well, because it's important to remember; in a dozen pages, the same result could have been achieved with less controversy. Aloha.