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Well, I reckon there is a bit of sexual innuendo; but you're right Chepas, it's not in any of the set sequences (there's some bit in some random garden when they put their clothes back on). I don't really like M+J as a film, mainly because I think Guediguan lets his political agenda get in the...

I was so unhappy. They printed the whole of "Hunne" so all of us that had bothered to learn stuff about it were annoyed, and then the questions were so random, AND there were only four of them. In Part B it was almost impossible to show that you understood the whole story, because you could only...

I'm not trying to be a wet blanket emskii, but I think that Emma values a marriage which is a balance between love and economic advantage. I mean to say, the marriage between Elton and Augusta is frowned upon, because she is "as elegant as pearls and lace" could make her, and crass with her "Mr...

---- Yeah. You're right. I did write about it in the Trials because I thought it was good to say interesting things about, and if you can criticise the texts in an intelligent way, often it's good to mention. And some of what it says does connect to the rest of the course, it's just a little...

Yeah, I agree, but when you're studying "The Skin Beneath the Skin" as well, then you don't have much choice in what you write about. Anil's Ghost is quite interesting in terms of studying CF becuase it isn't actually CF.

The End The fact that the book may be well written doesn't, in my view, justify it being crap, and not really providing much to work with for Crime Fiction. Anyway, the ending is, as someone said, representing disaster and renewal, but it also contributes to the ambivalence of the text. I mean...

Yeah, I'm happy to see that the book is breaking conventions, and in a way I think that order is restored, because each of the characters come to a personal truth, and the concept of "truth" has replaced that of "justice" in this particular crime fiction, I think. But my theory is that Ondaatje...

Yes. I'm going to get my mates to act out just the dialogue sections of my film screenplay, so I know how long that takes. I think that is more productive than filming it.

Hey, I'm doing a film script to, and there is no way for the BOS to know if it's the right length or not - from the words on the page there's no way to tell how long shot lengths are, or indeed how many shots there are. I wouldn't worry! But I am green with jealousy, because after the HSC...

De Rien Hey, I'm happy to give all my Donnie stuff, because I'm lucky to have a teacher that likes it, and given that the rest of the Journeys texts are crap, it's hard to connect something good like "Donnie Darko" to the rest of them. Hope it helped!

Hey, This is only a small thing. First, your stuff on Donnie Darko is really great. I'm doing it too, and it's good because my teacher is a real fan. We're doing Bragg's "On Giant Shoulders" and he reckons the three ways to connect it are: i) Donnie and Sparrow as "genius" figures like...

Yes I completely agree with you. I found Ondaatje's THE ENGLISH PATIENT insufferable, and to me this book seems like he just masturbated across the page and forced the publishers to print it. Ugh.

Does anyone have any idea how to link Michael Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost" to anything remotely connected with Crime Fiction? I have a few ideas, but it would be good, I think, to bounce them off others...