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Jan 14Liked by Beatrice Scudeler

Also what do you think of the opening scene of Barbie? It still troubles me. I know it is a tribute/ parody of 2001 : Space Odyssey, but it strikes me as a word picture for abortion. We need to get rid of our babies to be Barbie. An offering to the Goddess. Am I crazy?

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Jan 14Liked by Beatrice Scudeler

Hello Beatrice. Have you read DLS’s Night and Busman’s Honeymoon yet? I love the insights on men’s and women’s roles and marriage contained in them. And Lord Peter Wimsey is the most humane and compassionate detective ever to sleuth! God bless him and DLSayers.

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Jan 13Liked by Beatrice Scudeler

Great that you kept up your reading and writing during an eventful year!

I'm always dipping into Boswell's Life of Johnson, it never gets old! It's hard to imagine two more different personalities who get on!

A 2023 movie,I didn't expect to like much, but in the end did like is Tár. Cate Blanchett plays an aggressive, pretty nasty, but somehow sympathetic, genius symphony conductor. It's pretty dark, but an interesting study in hubris.

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