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The darkness and those long days
I aten't dead, but I have spent this weekend in too much pain to do anything including sleep. As a sort of unwelcome garnish, I came down with what a visit to urgent care determined to be unspecified viral crud and have been running a fever for the last three nights. I miss my brain. I haven't even been able to watch movies, which I had been looking forward to doing.
I can't remember if I ever noticed before that this passage in Le Guin's "April in Paris" (1962)—
It was a fine face, though pale and lean: intelligent, alert, vivid. Barry was reminded of the face of a famous atomic physicist, seen in newspaper pictures up until 1953.
—is an Oppenheimer reference: a face the author had seen not just in newspapers, but as a visitor to the house when she was a child. At this point where I am with Nolan's movie is just hoping it doesn't suck.
I can't remember if I ever noticed before that this passage in Le Guin's "April in Paris" (1962)—
It was a fine face, though pale and lean: intelligent, alert, vivid. Barry was reminded of the face of a famous atomic physicist, seen in newspaper pictures up until 1953.
—is an Oppenheimer reference: a face the author had seen not just in newspapers, but as a visitor to the house when she was a child. At this point where I am with Nolan's movie is just hoping it doesn't suck.
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How cool that Le Guin saw Oppenheimer in the flesh!
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I'm so glad!
(Thank you.)
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*hugs*
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Thank you. It was just not what the end of my week needed.
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(Thank you.)
*hugs*
How cool that Le Guin saw Oppenheimer in the flesh!
He knew her parents!
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Where do you stand on the double feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer, which are opening the same day. Neither you nor I will probably be in a cinema that day, but some people are in fact planning to do both.
Not this way, though
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherNolan/comments/13c2rcq/oppenheimer_poster_barbie_edition/
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Thank you.
Where do you stand on the double feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer, which are opening the same day.
Well, for one thing I can't believe that especially with all the fuss about recreating the Trinity test with practical effects, Oppenheimer passed up an opening date of July 16th.
(I am impressed by that poster, thank you.)
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*hugs*
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Thank you.
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Much appreciated!
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That sounds like a very rotten week and I shall have words with the week manager.
I was wondering why 1953 (Oppenheimer didn't die until 1967), and then realized in 1954 he lost his security clearance, so presumably appeared less often, if at all, in the newspapers. He did have quite a face.
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*hugs* of crud solidarity!
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I really appreciate it.
I was wondering why 1953 (Oppenheimer didn't die until 1967), and then realized in 1954 he lost his security clearance, so presumably appeared less often, if at all, in the newspapers. He did have quite a face.
The suspension of his security clearance was what finally clicked it for me!
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Also, I fully expect to hate the Oppenheimer movie and will be pleasantly surprised if I don't, but I expect to hate it in a detailed and specific way that is enjoyable to discuss at least, and possibly I will like it in that same way. So I'm still excited.
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Thank you. I slept last night for the first time in five days, which I feel can only be an improvement even if tomorrow I have to get up very early.
Also, I fully expect to hate the Oppenheimer movie and will be pleasantly surprised if I don't, but I expect to hate it in a detailed and specific way that is enjoyable to discuss at least, and possibly I will like it in that same way. So I'm still excited.
Fair enough! I just want movies about scientists I care about that I don't have to hate.