Okay, so why this movie and why now? Is there precedent? If you are of the persuasion that life happens in a vacuum, that things just pop up on their own, then that will settle the issue. For David Ritchie, I like the explanation, sort of a 1970's reverse snobbery. Usually the lower classes emulate the upper (sumptuary laws for example). I wonder if in fact the upper classes picking up linguistic mannerisms (a linguistic mannerism) of the lower classes is one more way in which the end of the 19th century paralleled the changes of a century latter. I wonder too if that doesn't mark the end of the beginning of the way we live now? WWI is generally credited with destroying the old order, but the Industrial Revolution had been in full swing for a while to that point. Too much sitting on one little word? > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/17/2006 11:41:21 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Just a cigar? > > At 10:18 AM 10/17/2006, you wrote: > >So where is the time warp, other than an opportunity for a gratuitous > >nasty? > > No... it's just that it was REALLY big news 6 weeks ago and you just > brought it up. Don't be so paranoid. > > >Fake documentaries used to be called fiction way back when I watched > >entertainment. > > I think 'fake' covers the 'fiction' part quite nicely and it is set in the > style of an ACTUAL documentary, so my description seems apt. What troubles > me more about 'entertainment' is not that fake documentaries exist -- > they're quite obvious -- it's that too many people think that regular > fiction is real. See "The Da Vinci Code" etc. > > p > > ########## > Paul Stone > pas@xxxxxxxx > Kingsville, ON, Canada > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html