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Post by fureverywhere on Nov 13, 2011 15:36:21 GMT -5
Some thoughts a bit too deep-in a really peaceful way-for the book thread. Rereading "The Lovely Bones", think it was a movie but the emotional concepts of the book, as is usually the case, don't translate to a screen. If you haven't read it...the book opens with a fourteen year old spirit who has just been murdered. she narrates her feelings about her life on earth, her family, watching the investigation and the world of Heaven. It's cool the way Heaven is presented as everyone having their very own vision of it. In hers she has a roomate her age and they can pick their dwelling space and go to school if they want to and only have the classes they enjoy. They have a counseler of sorts named Franny who was a social worker on earth and in her Heaven she helps people into eternity. Think about it...if you believe in some kind of paradise and afterlife what would yours be like? I would probably have a bookshop where all the books magically refilled and changed or possibly all the books ever created were available...yow what a concept. And I could have customers all day to talk about books, people who needing guiding to special books I could give them. Of course a whole flock of dogs and cats always at my feet. Then times when I could have private hours with coffee and danish and the flock sleeping around me. Nobody would need a bathroom and the air always smelled like sandlewood, lavender and clove. Unless I get reincarnated as a water bug
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Post by johnr on Nov 13, 2011 16:34:03 GMT -5
There is apparently a movie with a heaven-like scene in which multiple elementary proofs of Goldbach's conjecture appear! Can't beat that!
Actually, I've wanted to write a book on recreational mathematics featuring some of my own work and some stuff I find particularly fascinating and call it The Infinite Playground. I think math is about the only thing big enough to absorb me for all eternity!
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Post by maryellen on Nov 13, 2011 16:37:32 GMT -5
the movie stunk.
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Post by fureverywhere on Nov 13, 2011 18:54:47 GMT -5
Read the book, I almost never see the movie..."The Infinite Playground" is a fantastic title no matter what direction you go with it!!!!!!
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Post by johnr on Nov 13, 2011 20:47:34 GMT -5
You saw it? I must say, the more I read about it, the less tempted I was to see it. But a heaven full of Goldbach proofs is just about perfect for me!
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Post by johnr on Nov 13, 2011 20:50:09 GMT -5
Read the book, I almost never see the movie..."The Infinite Playground" is a fantastic title no matter what direction you go with it!!!!!! Right now I could use a finite playground. JUst about any escape will do. After a long. not extremely hard, but still busy day. coming home and having Pumpkin the Basset Mix from Beyond the Fringe going berserk on Miss Winifred Wienerwald was not my idea of a good time. It was all talk, and I can outtalk Pumpkin's bellicosity any day of the week. But it's never ever what I'm in the mood for.
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Post by RealPitBull on Nov 15, 2011 9:26:41 GMT -5
I saw the movie but didn't read the book. The movie was ok.....
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Post by michele5611 on Nov 15, 2011 9:30:08 GMT -5
Read the book and saw the movie. Agree the movie was not good.
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Post by catstina on Nov 15, 2011 10:48:33 GMT -5
I read the book and really enjoyed it, didn't see the movie and don't plan to, I liked the book too much!
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Post by johnr on Nov 15, 2011 13:24:45 GMT -5
Not sure we're talking about the same movie. The movie with the multiple elementary Goldbach proofs in a heaven-like sequence was The Beast with a Billion Backs, which I have never seen and doubt I ever will. Goldbach's Conjecture has figured in other modern books and movies, however, including Uncle Patmos and Goldbach's Conjecture. I read that book and don't know whether there was a movie.
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