[lit-ideas] Re: "Vanitas Vanitatum"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:46:59 EDT
In a message dated 9/7/2004 7:12:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
This sounds a bit odd to me -- given that his parents were
Anglo-Indian --
AA>Thackeray himself left India as a small child, never to return.
he was sent to school here, yes
----
There is an interesting sequence in the film involving, I believe, a
Jamaican -- and I wonder if that's in the original too:
A: What can you tell about the sugar
plantations.
B: Not much -- I left Jamaica
as a small child, when I was three years
old, never to return.
This involves what the NYT review describes,
"Then, as now, you could buy your
way to the top, and one of the sharpest
scenes observes a crude premarital
negotiation that goes nowwhere."
--- "She's not even English!", George Osborne tells his father.
I would think Thackery _was_ considered an 'Englishman', though, and I
notice that the Oxford Dict. of Quotations describes him as "English novelist",
not British, or Anglo-Indian! -- Cheers,
I loved the scene about the curry and Becky's initiation to it!
JL
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