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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 4, 2018 12:17:21 GMT
Except in a very few, usually extreme, circumstances I generally view the sexuality of others with near-terminal indifference. I would add to this that frequently, I find, you actively do not want to know.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 4, 2018 14:07:29 GMT
Except in a very few, usually extreme, circumstances I generally view the sexuality of others with near-terminal indifference. I would add to this that frequently, I find, you actively do not want to know. So true.
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 4, 2018 14:07:34 GMT
I generally view the sexuality of others with near-terminal indifference. Not with a telephoto lens then?
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Post by andydecker on Oct 4, 2018 14:09:10 GMT
I generally view the sexuality of others with near-terminal indifference. Not with a telephoto lens then?
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 4, 2018 14:58:55 GMT
Here's a question though - if MRJ thought it a mistake to introduce "sex" into a ghost story, and he admired Le Fanu, then what did he make of Carmilla and Schalken The Painter? Actually, I found a quote from MRJ on Wikipedia's Le Fanu page - "Schalken conforms more strictly to my own ideals. It is indeed one of the best of Le Fanu's good things". Did he not pick up on the implied necrophilia / demon lover theme (seems unlikely), or was he just more forgiving because it was Le Fanu?
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Post by johnnymains on Oct 4, 2018 15:15:25 GMT
Who cares about his sex, or lack of, or wishful thinking - what we all need to be talking about is the essay: "I Shall Most Likely Be out on the Links" Golf as Metaphor in the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Terry W. Thompson.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 4, 2018 17:00:12 GMT
Here's a question though - if MRJ thought it a mistake to introduce "sex" into a ghost story, and he admired Le Fanu, then what did he make of Carmilla and Schalken The Painter? Actually, I found a quote from MRJ on Wikipedia's Le Fanu page - " Schalken conforms more strictly to my own ideals. It is indeed one of the best of Le Fanu's good things". Did he not pick up on the implied necrophilia / demon lover theme (seems unlikely), or was he just more forgiving because it was Le Fanu? I have always believed, though I know not everyone agrees, that when MRJ said "sex" he meant romance. He liked both "Carmilla" and"Schalken".
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Post by andydecker on Oct 4, 2018 19:07:26 GMT
Who cares about his sex, or lack of, or wishful thinking - what we all need to be talking about is the essay: "I Shall Most Likely Be out on the Links" Golf as Metaphor in the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Terry W. Thompson. They play golf in the stories? Seems I only read the ones with churches, antiques and creepy doll houses.
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 4, 2018 19:57:51 GMT
If you want references to golf (and tennis, fishing, cycling, motoring) in your ghost stories then EF Benson is your man. I'm sure there's at least one story where he manages to fit all of them in somehow.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 5, 2018 12:43:42 GMT
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 10, 2018 19:48:03 GMT
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 11, 2018 7:55:07 GMT
Meanwhile, on Twitter, one of the organisers has said that a second conference is being planned for next year. Provisionally 24th-26th September. At the end of this year's York event, a follow-up conference was discussed. York was very much favoured as a venue (spooky place with great architecture, some brilliant pubs and excellent rail links to the rest of this pestered isle) but Conan Doyle was tentatively put forward as the scribe to be analysed, not that anything was decided for definite there and then.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 11, 2018 9:16:26 GMT
Meanwhile, on Twitter, one of the organisers has said that a second conference is being planned for next year. Provisionally 24th-26th September. At the end of this year's York event, a follow-up conference was discussed. York was very much favoured as a venue (spooky place with great architecture, some brilliant pubs and excellent rail links to the rest of this pestered isle) but Conan Doyle was tentatively put forward as the scribe to be analysed, not that anything was decided for definite there and then. This is being jokingly referred to as M.R. James York 2 - The Revenge, so venue and author seem to have been settled.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 21, 2018 18:11:09 GMT
From a recently received email:-
‘EPISODES OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY’ – 24th-26th SEPTEMBER 2019, YORK
Yes, #MRJamesYork will return with ‘Episodes of Cathedral History,’ a bumper three-day event themed around James’s connection to the glass and manuscripts of York Minster. There’s another James connection in that 2019 marks the centenary of the first publication of ‘A Thin Ghost and Others’ which included the story from which we are taking our title. So, hold the date in your diary today and we will provide more details, and hopefully open for bookings, this side of Christmas.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Feb 16, 2019 21:24:47 GMT
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